Really not surprised. Movies like this which seek to change or replace beloved characters in a pathetic attempt to pander to a certain group end up sucking. Mostly because it seems like the whole point is, "Look how diverse and sensitive we are!" instead of trying to actually make a good movie.People are arguing with me that this movie wasn't lowbrow slapstick and asking if we saw the same movie... Opening seen of the movie a guy runs into a haunted basement, realizes he messed up and then runs up rickety stairs as they collapse and hangs off a ledge. This is the ghost that, shortly after, pukes all over Wiig in the trailer. Which, Wiig makes the lowbrow joke that the slime got in every crack. As they test the proton packs, again clip in the trailer, McCarthy is being thrown around. And the scene, again in the trailer, where McCarthy gets possessed, Jones is holding McKinnon, who got picked up with one hand and thrown out a window, by one hand and fighting of McCarthy (who rotates her head around) off with the other. Oh, and semi spoiler, they beat the bad guy (keyword guy) by a cliche lowbrow typical slapstick move...
Every scene with Hemsworth was lowbrow (he plays an idiot)
I wanted sharp quick wit banter with characters that played well off each other. Instead, we got a ghostbuster parody.
Each nod to the franchise felt out of place or forced. The tone and setting of the movie were completely out of place for the franchise.
At the end of the movie there was a huge unnecessary action scene which was out of place.
And to support my claim of the cast, there were 10 characters from SNL in the movie that I caught. 1 from mad and 1 from the office
Oh an one thing that I just couldn't get past... The proton packs destroyed the ghosts... Sometimes