10 Major Plot Holes You Probably Missed

8. Ghostbusters 2

The Hole: The Confusing Skepticism

At the end of Ghostbusters, a giant Stay Puft marshmallow man attacks New York City, extremely large and extremely visible, waltzing through the packed streets to take out the Ghostbusters. The team overcome massive odds to halt the threat, and are hailed as saviours by the end of the movie by throngs of cheering crowds evidently very willing to show their gratitude... but then what?

In the second film the Ghostbusters are back to square one, faced by ignorance and disbelief concerning the legitimacy of their work and the existence of ghosts. What exactly happened between the two movies to make everyone forget? It makes for better narrative tension of course, but that's a pretty sloppy decision, no matter how many people seem to have ignored it.

Okay, so the film isn't quite as good as the original, but the criticism it attracts is completely misplaced. So why do we just accept that nobody believes that the Ghostbusters are a legitimate emergency service, providing a real service to control very real supernatural threats? They should be heroes - given the keys to the city after preventing presumably total devastation by a giant confectionary man - but instead they have to pretend to be workmen when questioned about their investigation into the subterranean river of goo.