Erin Gilbert (Wiig) and Abby Bergman (McCarthy) are a pair of unheralded authors who write a book positing that ghosts are real. A few years later, Gilbert lands a prestigious teaching position at Columbia University, but her book resurfaces and she is laughed out of academia. Gilbert reunites with Bergman and others when ghosts invade Manhattan and try to save the world.
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Zach Woods | Tour Guide Garrett |
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Kristen Wiig | Erin Gilbert |
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Ed Begley Jr. | Ed Mulgrave |
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Charles Dance | Harold Filmore |
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John Milhiser | Higgins Student |
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Ben Harris | Higgins Student |
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Melissa McCarthy | Abby Yates |
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Karan Soni | Bennie |
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Kate McKinnon | Jillian Holtzmann |
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Bess Rous | Gertrude Aldridge Ghost |
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Steve Higgins | Dean |
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Leslie Jones | Patty Tolan |
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Neil Casey | Rowan North |
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Dave Allen | Electrocuted Ghost |
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Katie Dippold | Rental Agent |
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Chris Hemsworth | Kevin |
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Nathan Corddry | Graffiti Artist |
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Daniel Ramis | Metal Head |
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Pat Kiernan | NY1 News Anchor #1 |
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Bill Murray | Martin Heiss |
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Michael McDonald | Jonathan the Theater Manager |
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Jaime Pacheco | Fernando the Janitor |
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Adam Ray | Lead Singer |
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Eugene Cordero | Bass Guitarist |
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Davey Jones | Ely the Drummer |
| Director | Paul Feig |
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| Writer | Katie Dippold, Paul Feig, Ivan Reitman, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis | |
| Producer | Dan Aykroyd, Ali Bell, Paul Feig, Jessie Henderson, Michele Imperato, Joe Medjuck, Amy Pascal, James Paul, Alex Plapinger, Tom Pollock, Eric Reich, Ivan Reitman | |
| Musician | Theodore Shapiro | |
| Photography | Robert D. Yeoman | |
| Edition | Extended Edition |
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| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Regions | Region 1 |
| Owner | Review? |
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| Location | Comedy Partition 1 |
| Purchased | On Sep 21, 2016 at ETRG |
| Watched | Sep 24, 2016 (at Home) |
| Index | 4305 |
| Added Date | Jul 06, 2017 01:44:00 |
| Modified Date | Jul 19, 2023 02:00:15 |
My quick rating 6,1/10. Nostalgia aside I think this movie did OK on its own merits. It was an impossible task to live up to the original and I am sure many people who have reviewed this just dismissed it entirely for that simple reason. The only chance the movie really had was to be original which the makers intended to do by casting all female leads. Problem is, the movie itself was not original in the slightest. I guess it wouldn't be all that easy to reboot a franchise without taking some of the creativity from it but this movie does so in excess. Albeit done in a good way. The ghosts in the movie look great, that is for sure. The action sequences are rendered to what you would expect from a 144 million dollar budget. The main ingredient of the characters (ghostbusters) was not too bad although McCarthy and Wiig seemed very forced throughout. McKinnon and Jones though were extremely funny and held the attention of the viewers well. The stand out though wasn't a female, it was the hilarious performance by Hemsworth that nailed his deadpan comedy style perfectly throughout. I think this is a worthy reboot that even though I would prefer Hollywood just leave some movies alone such as this, they aren't going to stop remaking things. So since our voice won't be heard, at least stop destroying movies, foreign or remake alike. This time, overall, they did just fine. And in the end, we know Zuul is coming, maybe to save the inevitable sequel from losing money (to date, the movie has made 127 million).
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