Who ya gonna call? Not these clownshoes. Director Paul Feig reboots Ghostbusters as a screwball, feminist comedy. Former paranormal researchers Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates reunite when a museum curator comes looking for help with a haunting, and when they end up getting fired from their respective colleges for their ghost investigating activities they go into business for themselves. The cast stars Melissa McCarthy and SNL alum Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones, and therein lies the problem. The characters are all one-dimensional caricatures; particularly McKinnon, who delivers some of the best laughs but is always mugging for the camera and pushing the jokes past the point where they stop being funny. And Chris Hemsworth is poison, playing a character that’s too stupid to live (and annoyingly so). The funnies bits of the film actually come from the cameos of the original ‘84 Ghostbusters cast, which are all incredibly fun. It has its moments and delivers some laughs, but Ghostbusters is more concerned with jokes than character and story.
Shout by Dann MichalskiBlockedParent2019-11-11T02:44:56Z
Who ya gonna call? Not these clownshoes. Director Paul Feig reboots Ghostbusters as a screwball, feminist comedy. Former paranormal researchers Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates reunite when a museum curator comes looking for help with a haunting, and when they end up getting fired from their respective colleges for their ghost investigating activities they go into business for themselves. The cast stars Melissa McCarthy and SNL alum Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones, and therein lies the problem. The characters are all one-dimensional caricatures; particularly McKinnon, who delivers some of the best laughs but is always mugging for the camera and pushing the jokes past the point where they stop being funny. And Chris Hemsworth is poison, playing a character that’s too stupid to live (and annoyingly so). The funnies bits of the film actually come from the cameos of the original ‘84 Ghostbusters cast, which are all incredibly fun. It has its moments and delivers some laughs, but Ghostbusters is more concerned with jokes than character and story.