Ranking All 22 Major Summer 2016 Blockbusters From Worst To Best
19. Ghostbusters
Removing any commentary about progressiveness or the positive impact on younger female audiences, Ghostbusters as a film is hogwash.
It starts brightly, setting up an engaging dynamic between the leads and promising solid laughs and possible scares, but then it quickly starts to unravel awfully. The script is clawing and try-hard, the laugh rate is about 20% to the attempted gags, the characters are under-fleshed and the effects work looks like they attempted to remake Eddie Murphy's Haunted Mansion.
It wasn't a wholly worthless enterprise, but it could and should have been a lot better (simply by letting the characters lead, for a start), and the end product is more like a catalogue of missed opportunities and numb-headed decisions than a movie.
And that villain, yeurgh.