Paul Feig‘s Ghostbusters reboot (Sony, 7.15) is obviously low and coarse. Aimed at families. Cartoon-level ghosts rendered with intentionally shitty CGI. Bill Murray‘s material aside, I hated the original Ghostbusters from the get-go. I despised screenwriters Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis for refusing to dream up a reason why ghosts were suddenly swirling all over Manhattan…why? Two years earlier ghosts had attacked Craig T. Nelson and Jobeth Williams‘ home in Poltergeist, but that had something to do with their home having been built upon a Native American burial ground. (Right?)
