Frozen Empire’s RT Audience Score Is Good News After Negative Critical Reaction

Summary

• Audiences on Rotten Tomatoes have awarded
  Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
  with an 87% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
• The movie’s critic score is nearly half of that total, at 44%.
• Critically, it is the lowest-rated movie of the entire five-movie franchise on Rotten Tomatoes, but audiences give it more credit.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire has reversed its fortunes on Rotten Tomatoes thanks to its audience score. The movie is the fifth theatrical installment in the franchise and a direct sequel to the 2021 legacy sequel Afterlife, following the original Ghostbusters reuniting with descendants of their late comrade Egon Spengler and some new friends to defend New York City from a new supernatural threat. Just days before its debut, the movie earned a splat on Rotten Tomatoes with a 44% score, the worst of the entire franchise.

Now that the Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire release has commenced, audiences have been able to share their reactions to the movie on Rotten Tomatoes. While the score will fluctuate as more reviews are added, at the time of writing, more than 250 user ratings have been amalgamated into an audience score of 87%. This almost exactly doubles the movie’s critic score.

How Does Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’s Audience Score Measure Up?

With its robust audience score, Frozen Empire has managed to land in the middle of the audience chart for all five Ghostbusters movies. While its prospects are looking solid on that front, it has still fallen behind the audience scores for the original movie at No. 2 and Aferlife at No. 1. Below, see how the Rotten Tomatoes critic and audience scores for every installment in the franchise compare with one another:

Audiences seem to be having a considerably stronger reaction to Frozen Empire than the generally divisive Ghostbusters II. However, it is difficult to discern how it compares to the genuine reaction of viewers to the female-led 2016 reboot, which was review-bombed with misogynistic reactions and still retains the lowest audience score despite being one of the only two entries to be Certified Fresh on the platform. However, this very high score does seem to indicate that its blend of nostalgia and modern blockbuster filmmaking is connecting with audiences.

Ultimately, it will still be some time before there are enough Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire reviews to truly evaluate its place among general audiences. However, this early score could prove that the movie has more box office potential than it initially seemed. While movies in the franchise tend to have their box office results correlate to their critic scores, this reaction immediately out of the gate could provide it with a major word-of-mouth boost despite its Rotten Tomatoes splat.

Source: Rotten Tomatoes