WARNING: THIS IS MORE OF A RANT THAN A REVIEW AS SUCH, I WILL CONTINUE MY FORMAL REVIEWS WITH INTELLIGENT AND INTERESTING FILMS, THIS HOWEVER WAS NEITHER.

I have seen a lot of films over the years and undeniably this is up there as one of the worst.

See, I normally love Kristen Wiig and Chris Hemsworth (also at times Melissa MCcarthy) but the only thing that saved this from being the worst film ever was, in my opinion, Leslie Jones. Brought to us from the usually  comedic director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids- one of my favorites and Spy) it is clear he was tricked into the trap of the now unimaginative Hollywood machine.

To be honest overall I am now thoroughly surprised when a film is released which isn’t a remake.

So as you have probably gained from the extensive trailers the film revolves around four women (a paranormal researcher, a physicist, an engineer and randomly a train worker), who come together to capture ghosts. It’s almost like that exact thing has happened before…with men…about thirty years ago…but it was better. Of course the original Ghostbusters (except for Harold Ramis of course) make cameos, which although brilliant in their bit parts, probably made them feel embarrassed at how terrible this was.

Bizarrely random with no attention-grabbing plot, it includes a number of cheesy childish gags and a bunch of ridiculous characters. The visuals of the ghosts as well (despite being arguably more terrifying than the comic original ones) are visually laughable. As I mentioned above, the only good thing is Leslie Jones, who does admittedly have some hilarious one-liners. Although it could be argued that her character is immensely stereotyped.

With little to no changes from the original, apart from the gennder-swapping, its boring and lacks immensely in substance.

I haven't got a lot of intelligent things to write about this as it was literally so awful.