Ghostbusters is a solid comedy movie, few good lines and gags, but it's "right place, right time" in terms of it being as big in popular culture as it is. There is something slightly fascinating, though, in seeing a blatant nostalgia cash-in used simultaneously as a vehicle for good PR cashing in on the modern internet-age resurgence of feminism.
Was anybody really clamoring for a new one? the first movie is well-loved, but it's loved for what it is, not for any grand imaginative possibilities it engenders. it's a concept that seems to me to pretty clearly be one that'll offer diminishing returns. It's not like a Star Wars or Star Trek, where you have a whole universe where you can flesh out ideas or go constantly to new locations or have new threats emerge. It's a universe where you can put on a jumpsuit and fight wacky ghosts with laser beams. That's all you're ever gonna get from it. Shit, I think the world-threatening villain in the first one is too overdone for a concept like that, I can't imagine what modern film executives will come up with.