Ain’t no bitches gonna hunt no ghosts

Thatโ€™s a line that Kristen Wiig says in the new Ghostbusters film in an embedded (and funny) commentary on the online brouhaha instigated by man-children over the idea of an all-female remake of a beloved (and IMO overrated) film. Sheโ€™s reading YouTube comments on a video the Ghostbusters themselves make in the film.holtz

I think what incensed these man-children more is that when the film came out it was actually really funny and damn charming. I donโ€™t like most comedies but this one is pretty great. Yeah, itโ€™s big and itโ€™s loud and itโ€™s kind of overindulgent but the characters have real chemistry and the film has just ridiculous energy and heart. Even better, theyโ€™re not all 22 years old and presented for their sexual attractiveness with all else secondary. Theyโ€™re actual people and that makes all the difference.

Yes, they arenโ€™t the women Iโ€™d prefer to have been in the movie but they all did a fine to amazing job. Kate MacKinnon is glorious in the film as Holtzmann. She is truly a weirdo and not the Natalie Portman Garden State style pseudo-weirdo who is just a cipher for male (and some female) fantasies, but rather someone that most people wouldnโ€™t actually like much in real life.

There is so very rarely a female character like her in a film and itโ€™s nice to see.

Is the film great? No. Is it better than the original? Yes, by a good amount.

Itโ€™s worth seeing just for Kate MacKinnon alone, though. Trust me on that. One of the top three comedy performances of all time in my book.

โ€œItโ€™s 2040. Our president is a plant.โ€

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