The entire movie, even if it was “designed for children”, relied so much on references and events from a 37 year old film, it didn’t even bother to pretend to create anything original or do anything remotely exciting or smart with the franchise.

You’d have to be a millennial or older to even remotely get any “enjoyment” from this because of how hard it hopes to make you think of the original and hopefully get some nostalgia dopamine activated. Oh wow, the same bad guy from 37 years ago. Having the same old Ghostbusters having similar conversations.

Also, for a film named Ghostbusters, the kids didn’t really bust many ghosts, either. Egon was a terrible father and grandfather who directly led Phoebe into starting the whole sequence of events. So much for being the smart one.