Ghostbusters

The new Ghostbusters is very weak and below average, but otherwise its completely ordinary and as such does not deserve all the media attention it received. The fact that Paul Feig cast women in the lead roles is not the issue. The fact is that he cast actresses who, in an effort to be funny, are usually only convulsively awkward and embarrassing, they come up with nonsense when improvising humor, and they also painfully mine humor from gags that stop being funny after about five seconds. Compared to the original from 1984, Ghostbusters is worse in every way, from the level of humor, wherein clever jokes and humor with a serious face were replaced by the actors being loud, rolling of the eyes and falsetto signing to the new version of the Ghostbusters theme. Only the tricks look better today, but they don’t help the film out much. (27/07/2016)

I don't have a good feeling about the new Ghostbusters at all - apart from the feeling that the film is completely useless. It didn't impress me, didn't offend me, I liked the female cast quite a bit, but they had nothing to act with, and the humor was so strangely tasteless and odorless that you couldn't even tell what the writers had come up with and what was improvisation gone wrong. The opening scene was good, as was the team's first encounter with the ghost, but the longer the film got, the weirder it got, the more awkward the humor became, and even every cameo role the actors from the original Ghostbusters had in it was a pointless addition (especially Bill Murray). For me, it's just not a good comedy, but there was a dad sitting in front of me in the movie theatre with two teenagers (who obviously knew Ghostbusters, as they recognized the references to the original and danced in their seats whenever the familiar musical theme was played) and they laughed almost all the time. I believe that even this film will find its fans. Three and a half stars. (30/07/2016)

A colorful reboot for which Gozer's servant Zuul wouldn't even bother to crawl out of the fridge. The jokes are delivered at a much higher cadence than Reitman's original, but there are far fewer successful ones than there are abdominal plates of the dim-witted secretary (also meaning a piece of furniture) Hemsworth. The hatred on social media sparked by the trailers may have been exaggerated, but so is the opinion that it stems from misogyny and anti-feminism. This is simply just a bad movie. (21/06/2021)

Sure, it doesn't capture the original film's atmosphere, it's more of a rip-off and actually a pretty bad remake, but it works when it references the original film, when beloved actors appear, and ultimately when it comes to some jokes that are actually quite well done at times. I simply enjoyed it, although nostalgia played a big part in it. (04/10/2016)

I was really looking forward to a cheeky female thrashing, but I only got a moderately slimy and totally collapsed action movie without humor, with a burned digital visual and desperately untapped potential. I don't know why Ghostbusters seemed like a good platform for Feig for diss machismo and misogyny, because the original humorously broke the category of male heroism. But if he wanted to subvert, at least he should have done it properly. Chris as Barbie is not funny even in the first minute, and if it is a deeper concept, i.e., it has to show the viewer how stereotyping is not fun, then at least the rest of the film could work this way. But it doesn't work. The talented cast poses rather ostentatiously, the slapstick jokes fall a bit by the wayside, there is tension nowhere, and almost all of the ideas are just a poorly recycled original. The use of old veterans is uncertain rather than intelligent. The Ghostbusters built their campaign on hate, and one would like them to stoke the diss with something better than complete carelessness and zero adrenaline. Unfortunately, they're just running around with the most stereotypical crap about idiots without a guy who solves problems with a fist. P. S. If removing Chris's dance was really the most difficult directing decision, Paul has a pretty sweet life. (26/07/2016)