Ghostbusters Review
Last Tuesday my fiancé and I went to see Ghostbusters, here is his review!
"So we went to see the Ghostbusters reboot which features four women(!) as the main characters.
It starts off pretty slowly and throughout the movie it picks up pace, culminating in a final battle to save the world, which appears to be mainly New York.
So we start with Abby Yates losing her job because of a video surfacing of her saying she believes in ghosts, and starting to work with Erin Gilbert and an engineer named Jillian Holtzmann, who builds all their tech, and they start tracking paranormal activity.
They hire a receptionist named Kevin who says one of the best lines in the movie about a fish tank, then a streetwise Patty Tolan joins after seeing a ghost and calling the Ghostbusters for help.
They track all of the activity back to a creepy guy who is building a portal under the intersection between two ley lines which he plans to use to bring hoards of the undead to the world to reek havoc. He kills himself rather than be caught and then they realise that it was all part of the plan when he comes back as a ghost, possesses Kevin and starts the portal back up, with him leading the undead.
After a massive battle which is seemingly impossible to win, our heroines make one last ditch effort to defeat the ghosts, which (of course) succeeds.
There's a lot of cameos from the members of the original cast, even a bust of Harold Ramis appears, and while the cameos are fun, they don't rely on them to make the movie fun, their characters aren't central to the plot, they're just interesting Easter eggs for people to look out for, such as the painting in the opening scene looking remarkably similar to a certain painting from another movie, to the point where initially I thought it was going to be a key plot point.
The jokes and gags in the movie are pretty funny and Kate McKinnon as Jillian is exceptional in this department, she really got her characters personality spot-on and held the movie together when things were a little ropey.
The end-credit scene also provided another little nod back to the previous movies if you bothered to stay for it.
Overall I'd say a 7/10, it's not an exceptional movie by any means but I'd definitely recommend seeing it."
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