Funny as Hell
Paul Feig and his girls bring the laughs but Hemsworth gets the gold
Origin Story
It's no comic book but a superhero story this is
Nostalgia Bomb
Cameos, Callbacks and more even though it's not a strength
Standout!
Seriously Hemsworth makes this movie
Rotten Tomatos 73% Cinemascore: B+
It's here...man it feels dead on arrival. The internet has been butchering this movie for months now (no thanks to those horrible trailers). Despite my doubts though I remained faithful to this movie: "It's going to be great" I thought, "The cast and crew they got are great, Paul Feig is a perfect fit" I thought. Now that it out, its hard not to reflect on the roller coster it has been. This went from one of my most anticipated of 2016, to one of my greatest concerns, to a critically acclaimed movie, to finally just ok. Disappointment, that's what I fell coming out of Ghostbusters. After all the will it won't it suck, could it be great talk ect. its just ok. Here's why:
Ghostbusters hit notes on two spectrums, being really enjoyable and being really dumb. When this movie works it works big time. The leads are funny, I ended up enjoying Leslie Jones the most out of the four (surprising considering I hated her from the trailers). Feig's direction can be found in the movies more subtle moments, like the Ghostbusters interviewing their secretary, Kevin (Hemsworth). Best of all the humor delivers (...most of the time). The standout in this department is Hemsworth who gave me several belly laughs (you know the laughs that make you burst out really hard). Ghostbusters was certainly worth the price of admission and kept a smile on my face for minutes at a time.
Sadly this movie has three big problems, first is the comedy. I know I just said that I laughed and the main cast is funny but there were plenty of times the script pushed a little too hard for a laugh. The result was more of an uncomfortable pause as the actresses tried to stick a rough landing. Second were the cameos. Cameos in a movie should never be a bad thing, but here we had to stop the action just so the secretary from the first ghostbusters could pop up. The amount of cameos is disturbing but most importantly nobody seems to care when they show up. What's the point of seeing Bill Murray in a Ghostbusters movie if he has no bearing on the plot and delivers his lines as enthusiastically a domesticated sloth.
But worst of all, worst then both of those issues combined, is the villain. The Villian in this movie is soooooooooo bad, soooooooo obnoxious, soooooooo stupidly forced, soooooooo blatantly written , that it makes me question how smart studios think we are (not so smart, not smart at all it would appear). When he introduces himself to Leslie's character I was on board, but by the fourth time he talks to himself or the audience about how much he hates humanity and how unfair the world is I was done. I really don't think Sony cares anymore, I know he is just a plot devise but he basically rips all the fun away whenever he's on screen (well until the second half when he just starts body hopping but the trailers already spoiled that didn't they).
In the end Ghostbusters is fine, it's just fine. Sure Sony, bring on the sequel. Sure Internet, tare this movie apart. Sure hyper feminist hate anybody who hates this movie because they must hate woman. In the end though, the irony to all of this is that Ghostbusters really isn't really deserving of any of it (the hate, the drama, the possible sequel) at all.
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