Let me start off by saying that I really did like this movie. I watched it on a transpacific flight and it was just what I needed to get through being in a small space for 9 hours. There are some things that you would totally have missed if you hadn't watched the 1984 film, but the director is apparently the son of the original director so I cut him some slack there.
Here goes the story. Callie, a single mother of two, moves her two kids to a brokedown palace in Oklahoma that her father has left her as an inheritance. They go not because they want to--Callie has no affection for her father, who left them when she was young--but because she has zero money. Her son Trevor is a sullen teen with a knack for mechanics and her daughter Phoebe is a misfit science whiz, a gift she apparently inherited from her grandfather. They all schlep to fictional, small-town Summerville to take over Grandpa’s dilapidated farm, but when they get there, they soon realize there’s something strange in the neighborhood. The rest is just would you would expect for a ghost chasing movie with too much of an emphasis on a super curse and the possible destruction of the world.
This is sort of a sequel and sort of a reboot, but it’s definitely an erasure of the 2016 “Ghostbusters”, which caused such a stir, maybe because it dared to feature women busting ghosts and maybe because it was not enough of an homage to the original--in any case, good to see the new crew has some females on board.
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