Ghostbusters

Short Answer... You got me.

See, the movie that rebooted the series. subtitled Afterlife, came out in 2021.

So I have had the time to see it. I just haven't had the opportunity.

It's not on a streaming service I have, and I have a half-dozen of them. And I am not going to get another just to see one movie. 

Nor am I going to pay $15.00 to see a two-year-old movie in my house, when I would not have had to pay that much to see it in the theater as God intended. 

Plus, I can't even rent it. I can only buy it. I could see spending $5 to rent it, just to see it, 

I mean, I could just read the plot synopsis. But I want to, get this, actaully SEE the movie.

I like this series. I am of the age that I saw all of them, including the original-- and even the female-Ghostbuster one-- in the theater. 

OK, I never saw the TV animation. But it was pitched at little kids, which I no longer was (or had) when it was out. 

And now they have announced a sequel to Afterlife. Which, on principle, I refuse to see until I see Afterlife itself. Maybe when the sequel drops, they will make Afterlife easier to see, so people can get caught up. But probably not.

I did not intend for Ghostbusters to be the last entry in this blog, but here we are. I was going to do it before all the "not really a trilogy" series like the Garry Marshall Holiday movies and the Corneto series. I was going to do it before the "not a trilogy yet" series like Greek Wedding that only have two installments so far. 

I checked back every week to see if it had come available on a streamer I had, or for rent, or something. But no. 

Maybe I will look around at DVD stores to see if they have it. (I am also, shockingly, of the age of having a working DVD player.) If they do, I may post my Ghostbusters entry yet.

Jump Street

Short answer: Undercover as teachers

In 21 Jump Street, the main characters are cops who go undercover as high school students. In the sequel, they go undercover as college students.

By now, they would be much older... and have to go undercover as teachers. Jonah Hill is pushing 40, and Channing Tatum is 43. 

Well, they did high school and college in parts 1 and 2, and Arnold did the cop-undercover-in-kindergarten thing in, um, Kindgergarten Cop. And School of Rock, though not about a cop, was about 5th graders.

What's left? Middle school.

They have have taken down drug dealers, these two hardened cops must now face someone even tougher: 7th and 8th graders. Yes-- 12, 13, and 14-year-olds.

Good luck, guys. 

They went after drug dealers twice, and I don't think you can get comedy out of tweens doing drugs-- it's just too terrifying. But they could be trying to break up a ring of people selling vapes to kids that, unknown to the sellers, are designed to be ultra-addictive. 

Another thing kids to is buy the answers to tests. That in and of itself would not be enough to warrant a police investigation. Unless the answer sheets were being used to transmit a code for plans for, say, a break-in. 

What could a school have that was worth stealing? Let's see-- computers, tech from the robot lab, chemicals from the chem lab, the answer code for that year's SATs. Or it could be some McGuffin hidden in a cup-shaped sports trophy.

It could also be a college-admissions scam like the ones we have seen in the news. 

By the way, the assistant principal did it, and tried to frame the principal along the way.