I know, I know...the very notion sounds ludicrous, but bear with me for a second. Despite everything, the Ghostbusters reboot will actually be good. Will it be good to people still bitter about the fact that it doesn't feature the remaining living members of the original cast? No, almost certainly not. But it'll be appreciated by a wider audience, as well as many critics. Why? Well, there are a bunch of reasons, but the film's biggest danger will also be the thing that saves it: Paul Feig. In the past, Feig has directed 2011's Bridesmaids, 2013's The Heat and 2015's Spy. All three of these films have something in common that's quite rare these days. They're comedies that are actually funny. Not only that, but critics actually liked them. 2011's Bridesmaids, for example, has a positive Metascore of seventy-five. Now that's not earth-shatteringly high by any means, but for a comedy, it's extremely unique. 2015's Spy has the exact same score, and was largely praised by audiences and critics. The simple truth is, Paul Feig knows how to make a good comedy, and he's proved he's adept at handling different comedy sub-genres. 2016's Ghostbusters, then, brings together a bunch of female comedians who have shown they can be genuinely funny (the inclusion of Kristen Wiig is particularly exciting), as well as bringing back many of the original cast members including Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Sigourney Weaver. A competent director and a reverence for the original will combine to make Ghostbuster's a surprisingly good movie.
