a5c7b9f00b Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat. Paranormal researcher Abby Yates and physicist Erin Gilbert are trying to prove that ghosts exist in modern society. When strange apparitions appear in Manhattan, Gilbert and Yates turn to engineer Jillian Holtzmann for help. Also joining the team is Patty Tolan, a lifelong New Yorker who knows the city inside and out. Armed with proton packs and plenty of attitude, the four women prepare for an epic battlemore than 1,000 mischievous ghouls descend on Times Square. I got really excited about 2 minutes in when the Ghostbusters music played. Took me straight back to being 10 years old. After that, though, it was mostly awful. I like Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy is ok but the kooky, scientist one was just annoying. The effects were pretty poor and there was no tension at all. I think they tried to play the final &quot;fighting the ghosts&quot; scenes for laughs and it fell flat. Shame. The reviews are skewed on this film because of petulant children.<br/><br/>I was unable to see this in the theater, but finally had a chance to watch it. The film stands on it&#39;s own, and Holtzman is a stand out character which I loved.<br/><br/>This is nothing more than the base pretense of the original film that involves ghosts and new york, other than that it&#39;s an entirely new story with new characters. It&#39;s not some intensely thought out story and plot, it&#39;s a dumb summer movie and it did a decent job of being that.<br/><br/>There were some fine nods to the previous movie with some great cameos, but all in all this is not a 1 star film, and it&#39;s not a ten star film. It&#39;s a fun summer blockbuster film with some great jokes that a bunch of angry basement dwellers got mad at and set out to ruin.<br/><br/>I hated the new theme song, they should have either stuck with a slightly modified original, or done something new. mashing it upa fall out boy song ruined it. Fortunately, it barely plays in the film. I wish they&#39;d written Helmsworth&#39;s character betterit wasn&#39;t funny, it was just annoying/sidetracking. They could have done better instead of phoning it in and not answering it (see what I did there). This Ghostbusters doesn’t lazily insert the actresses into the original characters’ roles, instead taking the time to come up with new dynamics — and far more pathos — for this quartet.
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