The first Ghostbusters Review is here, and we're right.

[ConstantineParticipant 4420]

Faust for Science wrote:
That is nice to know. I wish you luck in crafting your story.

Thanks. I’m up to about 45,000 words. Anything of that width is generally considered too short for a novel, so I’m aiming to have it somewhere in the 50,000 region. Not much longer to go.

To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle. -Orwell

[uchibenkeiParticipant 7965]

they thought they could make a quick reboot and make millions getting people to watch bulls~~~. They’re getting what they deserve.

I bathe in the tears of single moms.

[ShinyParticipant 2307]

Ok, just looked up a review from the UK (where it opened a few days ahead of the rest of the world).

The headlines make it sound fantastic!!! Yay!!!

GHOSTBUSTERS IS A LANDMARK IN MAINSTREAM ENTERTAINMENT.

It’s a goofy and efficient franchise-starter that could do with more jokes, but the new Ghostbusters is daringly progressive, writes Nicholas Barber.

Except, as we see HERE, Nicholas Barber says nothing of the sort.

tl;dr:

It’s an upbeat and efficient franchise-starter with a few enjoyable gags, but it’s impossible to care about any of it.

The trouble with Erin and Abby as characters is that they are too similar: despite that brief initial friction, they’re both amiable, enthusiastic nerds. The other characters have their problems, too. One is Patty Tolan (Leslie Jones), a sassy subway worker whose encyclopedic knowledge of the city’s history is laboriously set up, and then never utilised.

Another is Abby’s obnoxiously eccentric lab partner, Jillian Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon), who doesn’t have a personality so much as a stack of affectations: silly voices, punky hair, Tank-Girl-meets-Annie-Hall wardrobe. Only slightly less irritating is the women’s handsome-but-stupid receptionist, Kevin (Chris ‘Thor’ Hemsworth), who gets a lot of screen time for someone who doesn’t progress beyond the handsome-but-stupid designation he is given in his introductory scene.

Plot-wise, Kevin is a combination of the characters played by Annie Potts and Rick Moranis in the 1984 original, but it’s hard to see him without wishing Potts and Moranis were onscreen instead. Or indeed Sigourney Weaver. It’s not just that these actors were so much funnier than Hemsworth. More significantly, their characters were credible, even at their broadest, as real human beings with real apartments and real jobs.

Really, I’d have to quote the whole review, it’s a wall-to-wall condemnation of this POS. But the reviewer does indeed end on a positive note, presumably because he wants to keep his job.

God help us.

[bobphiloParticipant 1772]

As soon as I saw that this has the same cast of bitches that were in Bridesmaids I knew that it would be a piece of crap.

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