The Ghostbusters is finally released in theaters and believe me it wasn't a disappointment at all.
When Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wigg) is up for an Academic tenure at Columbia, she gets blindsided by a book that she and her best friend Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy) written about the ghost and paranormal world. When she heads over to ask Yates to take the book down and meets with her colleague Dr. Jillian Holtzmann. They get an invite to investigate a haunting at a historical mansion,
and there they meet, record their encounter of a ghost and Gilbert getting slime.
When the video of their encounter hits the web, Gilbert is fired from the University, along with Yates and Holtzmann from their college too. There they formed their own department to continue their research, they take the place above a Chinese restaurant, there they hired a dumb-witted receptionist Kevin Beckham (Chris Hemsworth) and meet Patty Tolan (Leslie Jones) as she came to report on ghost that she encountered in the subway tunnel.
The four takes a look and asked an artist if he'd seen any ghost and he responded with painting a ghost that would later be used for their symbol for their business. As the team goes into the tunnel, Yates' ghost meter runs high and finds a burned up equipment. There a ghost appears and Holtzmann sets up the proton laser and has Gilbert test it. With a few missteps, they caught it and tried to bring it back to before the train comes around but was too late.
Unknown of his doing, Roman North (Neil Casey) has come up with a device to bring the paranormal world into the real world. He leaves one at the subway tunnel, the other one at a live concert there the Ghostbusters get there and captures their first ghost.
But when Dr. Martin Heiss (Bill Murray) debunks that ghost aren't real, he makes a visit to the Ghostbusters and ask to see it. Making fun of Gilbert and their work, she releases the ghost and the ghost flies out taking Heiss and dropping him out the window. There the team gets summoned to the Mayor's office where they were asked to stop their work.
When the team gets back to their headquarters, Gilbert has the idea of what Roman is doing from the places that he placed those devices that they're on a ley line that intersects with a hotel at Time Square. The team races there, trying to talk Roman down. He shocks himself to death and dies, leaving the team to stop the massive device. But it turns out that they were blamed for the whole thing and the Mayor forces them to stop.
Erin is placed what seems to be a hotel, relaxing while she picks up their book that Roman was using that inspired him to bring the ghost. She looks through the pages until she see drawings, drawings of his plans that even killing himself was one. Erin phones the other girls but no luck.
Abby is at headquarters by herself, when she hears a knock. She starts to get scared and run in the bathroom. The ghost of Roman comes through the sink and into Abby. Abby comes out and acts normal towards Holtz and Patty until she starts destroying the proton packs. She than takes Holtz by the neck and takes her over the window. Patty saves Holtz while Abby trying to knock them both out. Patty pulls Holt out and smacks the hell out of Patty making Roman leave and smacking her again in an hilarious way.
Roman still stuck around the place, he dives into Kevin and uses his body to complete the mission. Erin runs to warn the Mayor about what's coming. Trying unsuccessfully, she's thrown out and tries to warn everyone, which for her is a bit too late as Roman's machine had turned on.
In the fashion, Abby, Patty and Holtz heads out to take out the ghost. There they meet with Slimer, who's eating hot dogs, takes the Ecto-1 and drives off. The girls are on foot and battles Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons that included the Stay Puff Marshmallow man flatting them, until Erin comes popping him. The four reunite to take on Roman who has a hold on the National Guard and police let alone the CIA agents.
Roman unleashes his ghosts to the Ghostbusters and the scenes of them taking on the ghost was unbelievable. Even the music played perfectly to the action scenes too. The after the Ghostbusters took down the ghost, they went after Roman. Roman than changed formed into something nice and cute like the ghost buster logo, Formed into a giant ghost, the girls took him out by using the Ecto-1 nuclear cells in the car to shut down the portal.
As the portal was closing Roman grabs Abby and takes her with him. Erin goes after her and binges down getting her and the both comes out with white hair. The Ghostbusters are the heroes of New York City and even the Mayor won't acknowledge them stills congrats them. And the city shows their love with signs saying NYC Hearts GB.
I'll say this that I wasn't one of the many morons who thought that this film was going to be bad. I thought it was a smart move and the best at that. I love the film. It was really, really, good. I thought it was funnier, scarier and believable than the first one. I really thought that this film had a lot to breathe . I didn't think that it was slow at all.
The acting was amazing and played to the actor's strengthens. Especially Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones, who steal the movie. I love McKinnon's character as she's quirky and funny. And the cameos in the film was awesome!! The original Ghostbusters cast with Bill Murray as a man who doesn't believe in ghost, to Anne Potts as a receptionist at a hotel. Dan Aykrord as a cabbie who isn't afraid of the ghost. And not to mention, Al Roker, the #1 Ghostbusters' fan in the world had a great cameo. But the one person who stole the scene was Steve Higgins as the Dean of the Higgins College where Abby and Holtzmann run their project. I didn't know how many ways you can give the middle finger until I saw this film.
I know there has been a lot of negative talk about it that it's a reboot and it's gonna destroy the original franchise. It's really not. We need to move on like we have with Spiderman, Star Trek and others that have been rebooted many times. I understand I'm a huge fan of the original Ghostbusters films but it's time to move on and it's that time. There's a new chapter to the Ghostbusters and it's a hit!! Best summer movie so far (until Jason Borune comes out).
Overall, I give this film 5 out of 5 stars.
Ghostbusters is in theaters now!!
