Dr Erin Gilbert is chasing a tenure position at Columbia University when a research book she wrote about ghosts, but subsequently has tried to conceal, makes an unwelcome reappearance in her life. Erin's efforts to get the embarrassing work under wraps once more put her back in contact with her estranged friend Dr Abby Yates - and also backfire horribly when she and Abby run slap into a very real ghost and Erin's reaction to this hits the internet.
Her career plans in ruins, but with ghostly phenomena on the rise across the city, Erin throws in her lot with Abby and Abby's quirky engineer friend Holtzmann to establish a company to seriously investigate the paranormal. Society isn't much interested in the "Conductors of the Metaphysical Examination" however, and quickly dubs them the "Ghostbusters".
And of course, you can rest assured that some ghosts are most definitely going to need busting before the film is out ...
This 2016 reboot of Ghostbusters triggered massive flame wars on the internet, because according to some people, casting four women in the main roles in the remake is an attack on the 1984 original. Presumably the studio was also planning to come to these people's houses and forcibly repossess their existing DVDs and make them only watch this film, or something.
In case it's not obvious, I think those people are very silly.
The 2016 Ghostbusters is not a perfect film: not all of the jokes hit. But it throws so many of them at you that some at least are bound to do so. The cast are likeable, and the affection for the original film is (contrary to the claims of the naysayers) obvious throughout. The action scenes all work nicely. I enjoyed it as much on this, my second viewing, as I did when I saw it in theatres. Recommended.
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