![]() None of that gender-slander for Feig, however, a filmmaker best known for such terrific femcentric hits as Bridesmaids, The Heat and Spy. They’re also smart, independent women who don’t fit the babe criteria, making them easy to write off as lonely misfits in a Hollywood flick. McCarthy’s Abby Yates and Wiig’s Erin Gilbert are both disgraced New York academics who’ve lost favor by trying to use science to prove the existence of ghosts. If anything, director Paul Feig and co-screenwriter Katie Dippold show an excess of reverence for the first film, bringing most of the previous cast back for lackluster cameos and building their story on the bones of what came before. The ladies don’t represent a desecration of the 1984 original with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson and the late Harold Ramis - besides, the same testosterone gang did a pretty good job of screwing up themselves with 1989’s Ghostbusters II. So ease up, fanboys, these scrappy women are the best thing this gender-swapped Ghostbusters has going for it. As one neghead tweeted: “I hear the new Ghostbusters movie won’t have proton packs, the women will just bitch at the ghosts until they fuck off.” Does Hillary Clinton get slimed with anti-estrogen loathing as much as this movie’s four leading ladies? Probably, but still.ĭissing on this irresistible nonsense is like making a marshmallow (think Stay Puft) face a firing squad. And yet Internet trolls have been talking shit about Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones since their casting was announced. No big whup and no big fat flop either, the female reboot of Ghostbusters settles for being a fine, fun time at the movies.
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