Just got back from viewing Ghostbusters. One Word Review : Forgettable.
Opening NY haunting necessitating the formation of the ghostbusters -- check
The geek you love to hate -- check
Kicked out of academia -- check
Search for a new residence -- check
Old firehall -- check
First callout / property destruction -- check
Black everyman joins the team -- check
A**hole skeptic causes chaos -- check
New York threatened and the Ghostbusters are the only one that can help -- check
A**hole New York Mayor assisted by an ever bigger a**hole -- check
Final Battle In A Big Building -- check
"I tried to think of the most harmless thing I could think of" Stanz moment -- check
Honestly should have called this Ghostbusters 1/2, as the MAJOR thing missing from it compared
to the 1984 version was the team's progression from fringe scientists to fullfledged
business / media personalities. Instead the group hadn't figured out the containment unit till
the end of the movie, so the stuff between the 2nd and 3rd acts was more filler than anything.
And yeah, the biggest pissoff as a fan of the 1984 verison is how that previous incarnation / canon was tossed to the wind.
The other annoying thing was how the movie tried too hard to be the cynic / skeptic -- that
should be the job of the audience -- and the "web-enabled generation" stuff drove me nuts
as well (YouTube, Googling one self, etc).
Admittedly there were some (more) amusing scenes worth a good laugh -- the scene of Melissa
Mccarthy and Kate McKinnon getting kicked out of their own institute of higher learning, complete
with multiple bird flips was amusing.
One line they REALLY should have put in the trailer : "Kevin, come get your virginity from the
Lost And Found!" THAT was ALOT funnier than the other stuff in the trailers!
Bill Murray in the "Walter Peck" role.. and gets killed for pushing the little red button EPIC!
Kate McKinnon's sass and effortless "get a laugh out of you without trying" hijinks just makes
her so watchable, mostly because I've one or two friends like that in real life
Chris Hemmsworth steals every scene he's in, and TOTALLY plays to the "I'm handsome, muscular,
and a total chick magnet... and I'm going to own it!" throughout.
There's a few new busting gadgets that were good for a laugh ... and massive property destruction.
I WANT THEM!
I also enjoyed the ladies action scenes at the end dealing with the ghost invasion... just wish
there was more of them and that it had gotten to them sooner.
"Awww" moment Slimer and Lady Slimer... riding around town in the Ectomobile
...Tall And Cold otherwise, I'm going to enjoy the (very wet) weekend
