Ghostbusters (2016)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Paul Feig (The Heat, Spy)
	Actors: Melissa McCarthy (The Heat), Kristen Wiig (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Paul, The Martian), Kate McKinnon, Chris Hemsworth (Thor 1-2, The Cabin in the Woods)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Horror, Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: 02.11.2016, in-flight entertainment system 10" screen.
Synopsis: Erin (Wiig) aspires at a tenure in her University when her past of ghost-believer catches up with her in the person of her old Friend Abby (McCarthy). At the same time some ghost start to make apparitions in town.
Review: I was curious about this movie but not very optimistic about the end result. It is in fact and as expected a useless remake of the 80's classic from Ivan Reitman and with Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd who both have a cameo role here as have Annie Potts (who played the secretary), Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and others. There are also many winks in direction of the original movie: music, sounds, characters, dialogs.... The lead roles are played by women in this version, to what I could say why not? But what I disliked the most was the totally different type of humor, probably more fitting nowadays' young audience, in the line of what I had previously seen from Melissa McCarthy (in fact some joke seem to have already been used in The Heat with Sandra Bullock). Example: when about to enter a ghost-infested building a Bill Murray would have (and did) cracked a nonchalant joke or Aykroyd launched a "let's go!" in which you could feel his fear, giving more depth to the movie instead of it being simply a fantastic comedy. In the same situation McCarthy and Wiig weakly pronounce the "let's go" at the same time and then make fun of it: "sorry, you say it, no you say it. OK next time it is me...".  I understand the intention of offbeat humour but this defuses any attempts at seriousness or second degree. One thing to save from this Ghostbusters: the character of the secretary given (to continue with the role-inversion idea) to a totally dumb eye-candy Chris Hemsworth which plays it wonderfully and pulled from me the only few laughs I had.
Rating: 2 /10