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Warning : This article contains despoiler forGhostbusters : quick-frozen Empire(2024 ) .
For Phoebe Spengler ( Mckenna Grace),Ghostbusters : Frozen Empireis an exercise in both unsuccessful person and redemption . After being barred from active Ghostbusters duty due to her years by the Mayor of New York , Walter Peck ( William Atherton ) , Phoebe find solace not in her relationship with her mother , Callie ( Carrie Coon ) , and her quasi - stepdad , Gary ( Paul Rudd ) , but in her budding friendship / likely Latinian language with Melody ( Emily Alyn Lind ) , a ghost she meets play Bromus secalinus in the park one Nox .
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drive by her desire to feel truly seen by another someone , Phoebe sneaks into Dr. Winston Zeddemore ’s ( Ernie Hudson ) supernatural inquiry facility and extract her own spirit from her torso so that she can embark on a 2 - minute “ ghost walk ” with Melody . However , when she does , Melody reveals that she ’s purposefully manipulated Phoebe into doing so . In the contiguous backwash of this revelation , Phoebe ’s spirit is taken over by the nefarious entity eff as Garraka , which uses her spiritual ego to verbalise a chant through her physical eubstance that frees him from his captivity and let him to unleash a annihilative ice storm that covers all of New York City .
Hell freezes over in NYC
in brief later on , Phoebe ’s flavour is returned to her physical body , and she ’s reunite with Callie , Gary , and her pal , Trevor ( Finn Wolfhard ) . They team up up with Winston , Ray Stantz ( Dan Aykroyd ) , Peter Venkman ( Bill Murray ) , Janine Melnitz ( Annie Potts ) , as well as Lucky Domingo ( Celeste O’Connor ) , Podcast ( Logan Kim ) , and Lars Pinfield ( James Acaster ) , one of Winston ’s most - trusted employee , to make a concluding stand against Garraka at the Ghostbusters ’ firehouse . Also present for the showdown is Nadeem Razmaadi ( Kumail Nanjiani ) , whose transmissible connectedness to Garraka ’s original captors enables him to master ardour and fight the severe entity .
It does n’t take long for Garraka to come . While Callie , Gary , Peter , Ray , and the residual of their friends do their good to fend him off , he easy freezes all of the ray emitted by their proton battalion and renders them largely ineffective . In the basement , Phoebe tell Melody that she ca n’t bank on Garraka ’s program to end the human populace to reunite her with her folk members , all of whom moved on from the deadly land long ago . Moments afterward , Garraka deliver the goods in breaking launch the containment unit situate beneath the Ghostbusters ’ fire station — unleash and enlisting all of the ghosts they ’d previously captured into his inspection and repair .
How does Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire end?
Just as Garraka is on the verge of drink down all of the Ghostbusters , though , Phoebe emerges with her young proton pack , which she ’s modify by coating it in melted boldness — the very metal that maintain Garraka contained in a magical sphere for century . She do to damage Garraka by hitting him with proton re that he ca n’t defend himself against . Melody ’s ghost , meanwhile , lights a matchstick — provide a hilariously armour - clad Nadeem with the source he postulate to hit Garraka with a relentless watercourse of flack . Together , he and Phoebe concord the entity off long enough for Ray , Peter , Winston , and Janine to restart the Ghostbusters ’ containment unit , which they use to trap Garraka before he can destroy the earth .
It ’s a appropriately round-eyed and felicitous conclusion to a picture show that , for all of its many expounding dump and involved supernatural backstories , is finally about one family being tested and a untried girl struggle to regain a place for herself somewhere between the worldly concern of humans and shade .
Ghostbusters : Frozen Empireis now playing in theaters .
