BY JONATHAN KANE<\/em><\/p>\n The news that Sony\u2019s remake of \u201cGhostbusters\u201d is pretty good can be a little bit of a shock to some people. Granted, it\u2019s not a great film, but certainly exceeds expectations and delivers a good ol\u2019 time fun afternoon at the movies \u2013 this despite the online attacks the film took from middle-aged male fans of the original that felt remaking the classic comedy with an all-female cast of heroines was total sacrilege.<\/p>\n Sony and Ivan Reitman, who directed the original and helped produce this film, made the right choice in turning things over to Paul Feig (\u201cBridesmaids\u201d) as director and screenwriter. Feig knows how to do a successful comedy and seems to have a touch with the ladies \u2013 especially Melissa McCarthy. He shows his touch again in this gender-reversed reboot.<\/p>\n It also helps to have some serious comedic talent in the leads \u2013 here supplied by McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones, all with strong ties to Saturday Night Live.<\/p>\n McCarthy, Wiig and McKinnon play the scientists while Jones plays a city and street-smart transit worker that joins the team. It\u2019s their chemistry that makes the film click and thankfully the humor comes from those characters and their relationships to each other. Rounding out the cast is Chris Hemsworth as their eye-candy secretary and cameos from the entire original cast minus Harold Ramis.<\/p>\n The plot is rather ordinary and revolves around a put-upon nerd that seeks to unleash a world of ghosts on New York City in a doomsday scenario. Once the ghostbusting team is formed, and located above a Chinese restaurant, the game is on and an array of ghosts and goblins are taken down. Not great stuff, but who cares? It\u2019s enjoyable and that\u2019s all that counts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Girls Just Wanna Bust Ghosts BY JONATHAN KANE The news that Sony\u2019s remake of \u201cGhostbusters\u201d is pretty good can be a little bit of a shock to some people. Granted, it\u2019s not a great film, but certainly exceeds expectations and delivers a good ol\u2019 time fun afternoon at the movies \u2013 this despite the online […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}