I don’t have a lot of nostalgia for the Ghostbusters franchise, but even going into the latest movie without any expectations, I still thought it was disappointing. For me, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire — now streaming on Netflix — wasted its one compelling plot point: Whatever Phoebe Spengler (Mckenna Grace) had going on with ghost girl Melody (Emily Alyn Lind).

Quick catch-up, in case you’re lucky enough to have not watched the newest new Ghostbusters movies: Phoebe is the 15-year-old granddaughter of original Ghostbuster Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis). And like her grandfather, she’s a bit of a misfit. She loves ghosts and science. And she’s so, so queer-coded. That hair! Those overalls! The fact that she feels isolated from her peers and can only connect with ghosts!

In the new movie, she strikes up a friendship with a ghost girl, Melody,........

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