Back with Scares, but with more Fun!. Review on Ghostbusters (2016)

Humming the original tune and letting out “Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters”. This song is so etched in every 80s and 90s kid. Didn’t we enjoy Bill Murray’s character the most, a lovable and funny guy with the guns(well I do crank up for all his jokes). But this movie by Director Paul Feig and co-written by Katie Dippold, set the social media ablaze with hate comments and negativity, that it felt the ectoplasm was oozing from the ghost of the past movie.

This movie was announced in 2014 with its casts and characters, and was so much criticised for it’s all -women stars. Oh shut it! This flick is going to do just exactly that to every online hater.

The movie has restored every character from 1984 Ghostbuster movie, which is awesome, as that movie is sooooo ingrained in our memory that we will keep comparing the present movie with the past(not the 1989 sequel, what was that?). job well done in casting a new team, in early team’s shadow.

Well, the story is about eradicating the city of all the trouble-making ghost, ain’t that what we expected. The movie starts with a scare, and then rolls out to be funny and funnier. The movie shows three jeopardised scientists – Kristen Wiig’s Erin Gilbert has true belief in ghosts and writes a book about it and trying to sell it online on Amazon.  But this doesn’t go unnoticed and soon enough she loses her tenure at Columbia. Abby Yates(Melissa McCarthy) and Jillian Hotzman(Kate McKinnon) are lab mates, look and sound like loonies while trying to that ghosts really do exist. Once kicked out of their respective institutes, they decide to get on with it themselves, adopting the same logo, costume and Ecto Mobile(so nostalgic).

These funny women take their job seriously and investigate every scare and haunting in now turned hyper-haunted New York City, including the one at MTA subway, there they are joined in by their fourth member Patty Tolan(Leslie Jones). She gets the most of the hilarious dialogues in the movie but her character still portrays the days of blackface when it used to amuse audience to see African-American dropping their eyes out of their sockets and running for their lives. They keep on investigating to know more about the increasing sightings of ghosts in the city and everyone has a strength to get done what needs to get done because “Ain’t no bitches gonna hunt no ghosts”.

Erin is the mad-hatter who makes all the formulas and equipment for the team and Holtzman is the worker to bring out the best artillery-designs that can trap a Godzilla of a ghost. The movie literally runs into the funny side, more than the original. They threw in a hunk Kevin, played by Chris Hemsworth as the secretary to all-women ghostbuster team. He is the female-blonde in the movie. The dumb-struck with very little skills other than to just look hot and handsome. He can’t even answer a phone a make a proper coffee and when asked if he did add sugar, just take a sip out of the cup and spits right back making scrunched face and saying he doesn’t like coffee but yes he did add sugar. Talk about being dumb, but totally worth the humor.

No one performances dominate over each other. All the characters mingle well. The friendship between Abby and Erin needs a little work and talk-through about the holt in their friendship, otherwise the duo doesn’t fail to crack on humor. Holtzman just believes in making some out-of-the-box and tactical weapons, talk about woman mad scientist. Patty helps around the whole investigation with her knowledge about previous sightings and knowing the history.

This flick is a new in the category where all-women team is supposedly surviving the hate comments and calls. Like when in the movie Abby tells Erin, “You shouldn’t be reading this stuff, it’s a list of what crazy people write in the middle of the night online.” True that. Feig has brought a daring concept with launching a horror-comedy movie that works around four women, without the tint of jealousies, boyfriends or any other cliché that you want to add with women(not this time).

The movie is way funny that what was shown in trailer, I guess because they really wanted to hide all the good stuff and somewhere after the hate-lings expressed their innermost thoughts, they knew it is better to jump-scare them with the new stuff.

I really don’t want to say that this is a redo or remake of Ghostbusters(1984), but it is more of an update or upgrade not a rebuke to it or its fans. Although a complete rebuke to those who thought only men can have sense to tickle bones. NOT ANYMORE.

Watch this flick in theatres as the 3D and CGI(always there in these type of movies) works well. Take it down on you weekend movie list.