Ghostbusters (later retitled to Ghostbusters: Answer the Call) is a 2016 supernatural comedy movie, a reboot to the Ghostbusters film series, and the third movie in the franchise. The film was produced by Columbia Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, Ghost Corps, and The Montecito Picture Company and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. Ghostbusters was written by Paul Feig and Katie Dippold and directed by Paul Feig.
The story is three scientist named Abby, Erin, Jillian and an MTA staffer Patty have discovered that ghost are real and they're all over New York City. After capturing some ghost here and there, they soon discover someone wants to take over New York. Now the four must find out who's behind this plan and put a stop to it.
- Negatives
One of the biggest reasons why this movie is so bad is nobody asked for it. I never in my entire life heard anyone say "Ya know what we need right now in cinemas?.....A remake/reboot of the Ghostbusters!" Everyone was pleading for a Ghostbusters 3 not a reboot.
Now for the Ghostbusters. I didn't hate them, but at the same time I really didn't care for them. Personality wise I guess they're decent, but there's nothing to really help them be memorable as the '84 Ghostbusters.
The issue with the movie is the very generic designs to the ghost. In the 1984 movie the ghost had some very creative looks to them, and because of that you could separate and recognize each one. In this one, the ghost have the same dead flesh and the same ripped clothing look. The only thing that separates them is some will have a blue glow to them, while others will have a green glow to them. Even when they try with a different look like the ghost dragon/demon hybrid, the look is still so generic that you could throw in any horror movie and nobody would probably know that that design was used in this one first.
What I also hated about this movie was the cameos. Yes, the cast from the '84 movie came back in the most pointless use them ever. Someone have a blink and you'll miss them moment, Dan Aykroyd's cameo was bad because he was just this taxi driver with a very stereotypical New Yorker accent, and Bill Murray...oh boy. You can tell he didn't want to be there. His whole two scenes in this are just him sitting down and berating the Ghostbusters. I think that's the only reason he agreed to be here. He'll do his scenes but there better be a chair for him to sit on.
The other thing that I hated about 2016's Ghostbusters was the villain. Talk about a downgrade. We went from an evil god with Gozer to a power mad tyrant who used black magic with Vigo to a guy who wants to destroy New York because people called him mean names. Do I need to say anymore than that? That's not only lazy but it's unimaginative. He's also completely forgettable. I only watched the movie yesterday and I don't even remember his name. That's how much of a poorly written villain we're dealing with.
Then we have the jokes.....dear lord the jokes. Now I didn't see too many comedy movies back in 2016 but, I still found this to be the most unfunny movie of that year. The jokes either don't work or the writers will go full juvenile and use a queef joke. I wish I was making that up but no. It happened and just to make matters even worse, that was the movie's first joke. You only get one shot to make a good first impression and this movie didn't. But another reason why the jokes don't work and I didn't realize it until I saw The Critical Drinker's video on it. He mentioned how the jokes aren't good is it's because the characters are always talking. And he's right. Whenever there's a joke the characters are always saying something whether it's funny or not. This is a trick a lot of bad comedy movies use. They think if they have the characters talk a lot and make the dialogue sound like it's something funny, then that means the audience will automatically think it's hilarious. But unless the lines are actually something comedic than no. Having the characters talk nonstop isn't going to get a laugh out of anybody. All we're going to do is think that they're annoying and beg them to shut up.
- Mix
I've got nothing to say. Let's move on.
- Positives
Honestly the only thing I liked was the special effects. That's really the only good thing about the movie.
Ghostbusters (2016) is absolutely horrible. Nobody asked for this reboot, the Ghostbusters themselves aren't memorable, generic looking ghosts, we have pointless cameos from the original cast, the bad guy is a downgrade from the last two villains we got, and the humor is dreadful. The special effects we're nice.
My final rating is Awful.
Well folks, that concludes the Road to Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Kind of a downer way to end this, but hopefully Afterlife will be good. So, come back on Thursday, Oct 28th for part six of Looking Back at the Films of 2020. For that one I'll be reviewing Batman: Death in the Family. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.
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