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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grendel_Khan" data-source="post: 8355683" data-attributes="member: 7028554">I really, really, really wanted to like the Ghostbusters reboot, especially given how awful a lot of the most vocal haters were.But sheesh. It was just a drag.At the same time, I totally take your point. It's easy for people to forget how much of a goofy, all-out comedy the original Ghostbusters was. I watched it recently and I was amazed at how short the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man scene was. Which was good! A standard present-day take on that whole sequence would have been five times longer with tons more explosions and CGI acrobatics. In my head the whole movie was way heavier on the action. It's a comedy, through and through!Maybe this movie is actually more of a comedy than the trailer makes it out to be (to get it out from under the shadow of the reboot), but if it's as reverent as you pointed out it it seems to be I would much rather if they had taken a 21 Jump Street sort of approach. (Final hedge, though: I also think it's ok for sequels to have very different tones from previous movies, ala Gremlins 2, but as you note this seems to be more interested in rehashing and fan-service than building, branching out or reframing.)</blockquote>