Film Review: Funny ladies save uninspired Ghostbusters reboot1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhen the new Ghostbusters movie was announced, it didn’t take long for Internet trolls to lament that their beloved franchise would be ruined by a quartet of female comedians.But the reviews for the gender-bent reboot show that the all-female cast is hardly the problem. In fact, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones, and the chemistry that ties them together save the movie, the majority of early reviews agree. As the New York Times’ Manohla Dargis puts it: “Girls rule, women are funny, get over it.”
The problem, rather, lies with director Paul Feig, the takes largely agree. Variety’s Peter Debruge took issue with the fact that the film, which he called “both funnier and scarier” than the 1984 original, was haunted too much by its predecessor. Cameos from the franchise past, he said, “undercut the new film’s chemistry”. “Is the new Ghostbusters funny? The answer is: Kind of, but not nearly to the degree it should be considering the talent involved,” said Entertainment Weekly’s Chris Nashawaty, who handed the comedy a C+. “The laughs don’t pile up as high as you’d expect,” he said, but he praised the cast’s chemistry.
via: Today
Image Credit: Columbia Pictures
