Summary
Supernatural comedy starring Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig. With New York under attack from over a thousand ghosts, paranormal researcher Abby Yates assembles a fearless band of women for an epic battle to save their city.
Supernatural comedy starring Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig. With New York under attack from over a thousand ghosts, paranormal researcher Abby Yates assembles a fearless band of women for an epic battle to save their city.
A missed opportunity in every respect, director Paul Feig's reboot of the beloved 1984 comedy horror is a mess of misfiring humour, noisy thrills, bloated action, chaotic CGI and zero charm. This gender-reversed update sets itself too many nostalgic hurdles and fails to clear any as Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig (who both previously worked with Feig on Bridesmaids) along with Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones become the overly zany spook exterminators who must stop a crazed hotel janitor unleashing spectral mayhem on Manhattan. With a scattershot story barely hanging together and zipping from one frantic ghoulish escapade to the next, the four comedians fail to cohere as a believable unit and barely sustain even the most obvious comic clichés without falling back on their own signature schtick. The finale set in a Times Square shifted to the 1970s is just one of the hard to understand concepts utilised to desperately keep it apart from the revered original.
role | name |
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Abby Yates | Melissa McCarthy |
Erin Gilbert | Kristen Wiig |
Jillian Holtzmann | Kate McKinnon |
Patty Tolan | Leslie Jones |
Harold Filmore | Charles Dance |
Hawkins | Michael Kenneth Williams |
Agent Rorke | Matt Walsh |
Kevin | Chris Hemsworth |
Mayor Bradley | Andy Garcia |
Phyllis Adler | Elizabeth Perkins |
Ed Mulgrave | Ed Begley Jr |
Rowan North | Neil Casey |
Rebecca Gorin | Sigourney Weaver |
Cabbie | Dan Aykroyd |
Desk clerk | Annie Potts |
Uncle Bill | Ernie Hudson |
Martin Heiss | Bill Murray |
Famous rock star | Ozzy Osbourne |
role | name |
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Director | Paul Feig |