Yet even this brief look at the film suggests McCarthy’s spectacular improvisational skills are once again coming to the fore, and that’s enough to settle any lingering nerves for me on this one.While admittedly this one looks pretty exciting and the official trailer may have ended up a little too telling - particularly when it came to a sequence that saw McCarthy's character possessed by a ghost and turning on her fellow 'Busters - it gave more of an insight than Colver's as to what cinema-goers are more likely to encounter context-wise when they go to see it on the big screen. But there are clearly plenty who haven’t and are wondering when Murray ( yes, he’s in) and Aykroyd are going to turn up and bring the jokes.
If you’ve seen Spy, you’ll probably “get” the humour here. This is Feig, and his trusted, regular team of McCarthy and Wiig, having huge amounts of fun once again with genre silliness, as opposed to essaying the more nuanced indie comedy of Bridesmaids. Like last year’s superb espionage caper, Ghostbusters 2016 is sending up its source material as much as it’s paying tribute to it. The jokes are closer to Spy than the original GhostbustersĪnyone who bet that Feig was going to change his style just because he’s remaking one of the 80s’ best-known movies was always going to lose that wager.
Luckily, a bit of extreme violence is all that’s necessary to banish evil spirits back to the seventh layer of Hades – or perhaps the corner of 7th and 34th – rather than a full exorcism carried out by a trained cleric. But Feig has decided to shake things up, and it seems that once a bit of green goo gets inside you, there’s no telling what manner of head-spinning-all-the-way-round type behaviour may ensue. Ghosts are usually visible and do not possess people demons are usually invisible and do.
Ghosts seem to be getting mixed up with demons Might Chris Hemsworth’s Kevin the secretary, whose eyes look a little glazed at one point, be involved this time? We know the Australian actor asked for his role to be beefed up before taking the part, and he’s got the look to play a musclebound Sumerian demigod. In the original movie, two human vessels, Rick Moranis’s unfortunate Louis Tully, and Sigourney Weaver’s lissom Dana Barrett, were required to summon the demon Gozer to Earth. We’ve been told the major villain in Ghostbusters 2016 is Neil Casey’s Rowan, a powerful demon of unknown provenance, and the trailer tells us that someone is “creating a device that amplifies paranormal activity”. But 3 white ladies & 1 Black woman (stuck w/"street smarts" trope) is barely diverse.1- Imperator Fieriosa Ma‘Someone’ is trying to bring the evil back to New York Cityīut on to more immediate matters, like the plot. Like I'm excited for all-female Ghostbusters. Diversity campaigners have joined the anti-Ghostbusters queue
Is it a remake? Is it a sequel? An opening line tells us that the new movie is set 30 years after another crew of scientists saved New York, but if that’s so, why don’t our new quartet – Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Saturday Night Live regulars Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones – recognise the Ghostbusters emergency vehicle as a dead ringer for the 1984 Ecto-1? Maybe they lived out of town, but the suspicion is that such logic gaps are born of the same Hollywood obsession with nostalgia that led Star Wars: The Force Awakens baddies to waste all their precious galactic credits on yet another implausibly fragile Death Star. The ghost of JJ Abrams is hovering over Paul Feig’s movie Here are five takeaways from our debut look at Feig’s follow-up to the hip-swingingly fabulous Spy. Now, the first trailer for Ghostbusters 2016 has landed, and – yes, you guessed it – the whiff of controversy is still palpable. ITS NOT A MAN, WOMAN, RACE, CLASS THANG!! ITS A GHOSTBUSTER THANG!! AND AS FAR AS IM CONCERNED WE ALL GHOSTBUSTERS!! STAND TALL!!- Leslie Jones March 4, 2016