Having quite the week for watching things I’ve been looking forward to for far too long, hehe. I adored the TV series that this feature follows, I came to it late and watched it almost back to back and have done the same again at least 5 times since, so my hopes were high. For about the first thirty minutes here, it’s mostly business as usual, feeling very much like so many TV to movie DTV “movies” – rather like two episodes joined together. To be honest, this didn’t bother me because I was just so happy to see these guys again after so long, even minus Mandy Patinkin and Laura Harris (whose replacement is oddly okay to me, afterall we’re used to characters looking different to others in this show) – but it did cross my mind that something more ambitious would be more desirable.

Midway, however, something interesting happens. What results reminded me a lot of the moment in Ghostbusters II where the team stop doing their job and all hell breaks loose on Manhattan. The story here ultimately is kinda ambitious and in keeping with the departure of Rube. All the rules are messed with but the rules of the show clearly still apply and that I find really kind of fascinating.

It’s not enough, that’s for sure, and I hope there will be more. But as it stands, I found it a perfectly acceptable closure for the show – for Rube, certainly … the rain of Post-Its at the end, while not quite the bells in the sky at the end of Breaking the Waves, did call that scene to mind and make me tear up just a little. There’s easily enough here to make it worth the 90 minutes over likely most of the larger features I’ll watch this year, that’s for sure.

Tags: angst, comedy, death, ghosts, TV

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 12th, 2009 at 6:52 pm and is filed under 4 hearts, Movie Reviews. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.