An average movie

Even though this movie had been a critical and commercial flop when it was released, I thought I might as well check it out anyway. First of all, like any other kid growing up during the 80’s, I really loved ‘Ghostbusters’, however, when I did re-watch the classic installments as a grown-up, to be honest, I thought the concept didn’t grow old very well. That was the main reason why I was skeptical about this flick and not the fact that they brought up a female cast for this reboot. In fact, the idea to start fresh with some new characters was probably one of the few things that did work with this movie. Indeed, I’m afraid this flick does deserve its rather poor reputation. The main issue was that the script was rather weak. In my opinion, they spent too much time on explaining on how suddenly there were a bunch of ghosts in New York and then they spent too much time on arguing that the Ghostbusters were some fraud. Both ideas were just really tedious and the ridiculously long running time of almost 2 hours definitely didn’t help either. Concerning the jokes, it was just hit-and-miss. Most of the jokes involving Chris Hemsworth were pretty neat though but there were too many of them focusing on this character which shows how misguided the whole thing was. It was like Bill Murray’s cameo, it was fine to see him on TV debunking the Ghostbusters but to have his character showing up again later on was completely unnecessary. Anyway, to conclude, as expected, it turned out to be a rather weak reboot and it is obviously not really worth a look.