Ghostbusters (2016)

Author: Paul Feig

All the fury of the all-female remake of the 1985 classic Ghostbusters melted away the second the team shows up on-screen. Not actually a remake, Kirsten Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Jones, and especially Kate McKinnon, play characters every bit as memorable as the ones played by Ackroyd, Murray, Ramis, and Hudson. The story of an other-worldly invasion is similar to the earlier films, only approached with fresh eyes, stronger effects, and a better-rounded cast of misfits. It's a buddy cop movie, only with ghosts as the criminals, but it's also a conspiracy flick, and a mystery, all rolled up into a neat little package! Probably no character in recent memory hit it out of the park as well as McKinnon's performance as Holtzmann. She gives a joyously quirky performance that combines elements of a half-century of nutty professors and whacky sciencers. Wiig and McCarthy may be this generation's version of Hope & Crosby, and when you conbine them with a story that is so much fun, you get a wonderful film.Why it's on the listRe-boots are nothing new, and rarely do they stand up as well as Ghostbusters does to their originals.