INTRODUCTION: OMG! The cast doesn’t all have vaginas! Well, Finn Wolfhard does, but that’s beside the point. I must trigger on Twitter (Now X) and make sure Hollywood is well aware of my smug need to interject myself were I don’t belong! /sarcasm We all know that after the 2016 reboot, which I enjoyed, that anything Ghostbusters related was going to be polarizing. I decided to do this review late, because I don’t care if you agree with me or not, it’s nice to just have new Ghostbusters movies being made and it doesn’t need a million people triggering on a post. So is this something to be thankful for?

PLOT: Ghostbusters are a thing of the past. Egan fucked off to middle of sister fuckin midwestern town or something. He has grandkids and a child, of which no one knows how that happened. They discover his farm home and in stranger things style, bust heads, in a spiritual sense, or course.

CHARACTERS: Very good and pretty well developed.

ACTING: Excellent! The Gen Z actors are definitely beyond their years. Better than I was at a similar age when I won student of the month for acting at Bates Elementary School in Salem, Massachusetts in fifth grade for the most atrocious Christmas play, ever.

STYLE: Not too dissimilar from 2016, but mildly less Scooby Doo 2000. It doesn’t look like the 80s originals at all, but this is a different Reitman directing, so give him a chance.

MUSIC: Excellent! Even the pop songs were decent.

FX: Excellent. Nice blend of CGI and practical.

CONCLUSION: For a movie that was mostly sold on nostalgia, this really struck out in its own right. I know a lot of people thought the young actors were annoying, I thought they were all really on point. It was modern, nostalgic, unique but kept to the basic Ghostbusters formula that Jason’s father, Ivan, laid down. Very good and I would love to see a dozen more.

5 out of 5 stars