Ghostbusters was Fine

An acquaintance (repeat ACQUAINTANCE) posted on Facebook after seeing Ghostbusters

GHOSTBUSTERS not v good at all. Sorry, women, I think this means you've been officially proven not funny forevermore :'(

Okay so maybe probably a joke (not half as funny as even the worst joke in the movie) but how is this an appropriate thing to say? and that is all this post is going to say about women in comedy.

I saw Ghostbusters while chomping on what might be the second best popcorn I have had in my entire life (first best being The Spring in downtown Goshen Indiana). I haven't seen the original 1985 Ghostbusters in two handfuls of years but I remember it being fine. This movie was equally fine. I laughed, I fell a little more in love with Kristen Wiig, I felt overwhelmed by the special effects, and then I left, promptly forgot about it and I am so okay with all of that.

Apparently the movie follows the previous Buster movie to a T. So I am going to assume everyone has seen that staple of mediocrity and save you the synopsis.

Use this to spark your memory

I really (really) like Paul Feig movies. I think Spy is one of the funniest things that has happened. Ghostbusters is a little less so with the funny. The Ghostbusters humor comes in the form of blurted quips and one liners. I think the best parts of Feig movies are when he gets Judd Apatow with them and has the characters talk and talk and over talk a topic. For example one of the funniest parts of Bridesmaids (personally) is when Melissa McCarthy's character is introduced and she just blabs about falling off a cruise ship to the point where it stops being funny and then starts again. Even more than monologues I wanted to see more of the actors playing off of each other. I felt that the jokes were tossed out and evaporated without any of the other characters responding to them. The cast is loaded let them interact with each other!

So the cast. Kristen Wiig is love so is Melissa McCarthy and Leslie Jones. You see who I left out? I was disappointed by Kate McKinnon. I thought her character played the same gag over and over again. The look how weird I am joke got old.

Except this scene. This scene was AWESOME.

Chris Hemsworth was delightful. He plays the blond bimbo, normally reserved for women, with a charisma and dopiness that makes you want to buy him food and make sure he is dressed appropriately for the weather. I would like to highlight the credits (who can fathom why this gem was hidden away there) when he gyrates and sashays and grins with childlike glee; a dance off between him and lines of armed guards. The credits were particularly enjoyed by two young waist high girls in the theater I was in who stood up to wiggle along. I was just the smallest bit jealous of them both that they were allowed to dance down the theaters aisles and that they were going to grow up knowing nothing but a world with female Ghostbusters.

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