Finally got around to seeing the film. Posting from mobile, so exuse it from being a bit disjointed. I've been excited since the early stages to check this out, and I can't honestly weight my disappointment with the end result.
A few things I've been noticing from other postings thst baffle me.
"This is a Real Ghostbusters film." - Outside of having the name Ghostbusters, huh? No.
"It's a least better than Ghostbusters 2!" - Remarkably it isn't. Goddam. Bar is testicle shot low.
I believe Feig is a large part of the problem here. He speeds through each scene like there is a time allotment. Never is there a chance to slow down and give genuine moments or marinate the characters. By the time the climax kicks in I really don't have a sense of any attachment or stake in anything that is going on. If you've seen
Spy you should have a good idea of what I'm talking about in terms of his editing style. It worked in that film largely because you had a solo narrative, and cuts ended usually at the expense of the absurdity of McCarthy's universe. Here you have a variety of individuals who suffer because comedic styles are different, less narrative to go around, and simply makes everyone seem distant to the viewer.
Wiig and McCarthy may as well be ghosts in the film. Zero chemistry. Not sure why they didn't add any additional elements to these characters to make them stand out either.
Holtzmann comes across poorly. I never have a sense of who she is. I love Kate McKinnon, and despite this she has a couple lines that deliver some chuckles. She isn't very relatable or even stereotypical if you are narrowing her down to some kind of Egon character, which she is not.
Patty is the only character in the entire film thst feels whole. Despite this, they still make her seem strange and desperate by shoehorning her into the film when they could have naturally found a more acceptable way to introduce her to the group.
Kevin just works. He is a character that either gels with you or you loathe. For me, he was the only person who seemed to genuinely having fun and gave a enough dumb lines to generate some sort of reaction.
Every side character is absolutely wasted, every cameo is meaningless, every reference piles up. Lone exception was
. If this was the only cameo or strong reference to the original would have been perfect.
Final Score: RIGHT IN THE CHILDHOOD
Well...no. In fact it's relatively harmless. They also do enough to try and make this their own film. It doesn't share much at all with the overall objective of 1984 outside of generic structure. Problem is film has a higher sense of attachment and they marketed this as a selling point. It's hard pinpoint the hard terms Sony pushed, what Feig wanted, what Feig was capable to do with all this out of the film "Avengers" nonsense.
The comparison to Pixels still stands funny enough. Initially from a trailer and premise standpoint, but by the end of the film my experience was roughly the same in the cinema. Two franchises with jumpsuits throwing nostalgia in a attempt for any of it to stick. If this film would have went the
Evolution path it could have been a bit more interesting in retrospect.