movie whose name it bears.
One scene has Jones channel
the spirit of controversial comic
Mantan Moreland in what could
be considered either the most
racist thing you’ll see on screen
all year or a reclamation of a
dark period of African-American
cinema; I’m not remotely qualified to wade into that cultural
quagmire.
Ultimately, given the sorry state
of the comedy genre in Hollywood, Ghostbusters is about
as good as can be expected, i.e
slightly above mediocre. Sony is
hoping for this to become a franchise to rival Universal’s Fast &
Furious series and Disney’s Marvel universe, which seems like
wishful thinking (there’s no pandering to China here, unless you
count McCarthy’s enthusiasm for
Won-Ton soup), and while this
is a movie I will never revisit, I’d
happily kill another 90 minutes
in the company of these characters should a sequel arrive.
w
Ghostbusters
3 stars out of 5
Directed by: Paul Feig. Starring:
Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig,
Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones,
Chris Hemsworth, Andy Garcia,
Ed Begley Jr, Charles Dance,
Bill Murray, Ozzy Osbourne,
Michael Kenneth Williams,
Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson
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