10 Bill Murray Movies You Should Throw Out The Window

9. Ghostbusters II

Having rocketed to superstardom in the first Ghostbusters, Murray repeated the trick of playing amusing yet oily spook stomper Peter Venkman in the follow up. Coaxed away from his role as an opportunistic talk show host to help Sigourney Weaver's baffled mother in peril, he rejoined Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson to hit the mean streets of New York with their trademark logo and proton packs. This time they were up against an evil painting and a lake of sentient ooze. This 1989 sequel was belated - the original landed in '84 - uninspired and a bit too pleased with itself. The villain, a Carpathian sorcerer with a grudge and watercolour mullet, wound up dull and the frenzied back-slapping drowned out the better moments. Peter MacNicol stole the show as a bizarrely-accented acolyte, and while nice to see the gang back together the script sounded slow and stale. The cry of: "Two in the box, ready to go... We be fast and they be slow!" was cringe-making from a bunch of middle-aged men. Puppeting the Statue of Liberty with Jackie Wilson-loving slime didn't make a huge amount of sense and of course the blatant patriotism clogged the arteries of the movie like the leftovers of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.