Review of Ghostbusters (2016) by Kurt C — 17 Dec 2016

This is the first Melissa Mccarthy movie that I don't like. especially crazy because the same director directed Mccarthy's "Spy" which is one of my favorite action comedies.

It feels like the characters were trying to hard to be stereotypes, which left them flat and two dimensional.

Also, I felt the whole "let's reverse character genders" to be contrived and a distraction, all the more so because of the stereotypical character archetypes used.

I suppose if I had never seen the originals, I may have enjoyed this more, but I spent much of the movie thinking about how they did this or that wrong, that their tech was a character of the original, that their ecto-1 looked terrible, and things along those lines.

It is a pity, because in certain remakes/reboots, (star trek, robocop, the magnificent seven), there were things that the new cast and directors improved over the original. that didn't happen here, the chemistry never lived up to the originals or surpassed them in any way. I'm going to pretend that this movie remake (like Punisher: Warzone) never happened.