Please Enjoy the Ceaseless Parade of Callbacks That Is the Full Trailer for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

We ask this with all sincerity: How long can the current model of legacy sequels continue on, spitting out updated versions of our favorite properties from the 1980s while audiences clap and bark at nostalgic references like trained seals? How many iterations of films in the mold of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire can possibly be successful before the cynics among us spread our discontent to the regular public, who become fed up with these shameful, creatively bankrupt movies? How many trailers like this new Frozen Empire one can any of us watch before disgust is the only emotion left to feel?

Because even by legacy sequel trailer standards, this newly released collection of footage is really a doozy. This is callbacks-on-callbacks, treating every single joke from the Ivan Reitman-directed 1984 original as a sacred object of reverence that must be referenced or repeated verbatim. The ghost from the NYC public library? She’s back. Janine Melnitz barking “Ghostbusters, whadd’ya want?!?” into the station telephone? That’s back. EPA pencil-pusher Walter Peck as an anti-Ghostbuster bureaucrat? That’s totally back, despite actor William Atherton (the classic Die Hard tertiary antagonist as well) sounding so shaky in his voiceover that it’s not even initially clear this is the same character. Everything is back! Including The Real Ghostbusters mascot Slimer, of course. You can’t ratchet up the pandering properly without Slimer in tow.