And Danny [Aykroyd] and I and Annie [Potts] and Ernie [Hudson] were just screaming and cheering like we were at a sporting event at the end of it.” 
 
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 The girls, including Melissa McCarthy, Kristin Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones, admitted that hearing the original actors sing their praises like that was an incredible feeling and just unbelievable. This is no more a double-crossing adaptation than “The Force Awakens” is a fraudulent version of “Star Wars.” 
 
 The new spin follows Kristen Wiig as Erin Gilbert, an uptight Columbia University physics professor who was bullied as a little girl for claiming to have seen a ghost, and as a result spent almost her whole life pretending to be a skeptic. [Trolls are doing whatever they can to bring down the ‘Ghostbusters’ reboot] 
 
 Hemsworth’s objectified secretary is one of the few times sexism is explicitly invoked in “Ghostbusters,” in which director Paul Feig and his co-writer, Katie Dippold, couldn’t help but include a few digs at the movie’s online haters. Wiig does wild puppy love when idiotic, irresistible Kevin (Chris Hemsworth in upbeat form) becomes their incompetent receptionist.
– Remaking Ghostbusters was never going to be easy. Luckily, an all-female cast wasn't afraid to answer the call. While audiences—who may or may not have read the hate blanketing the web—give this summer's reboot a 44% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, most critics are counting it as a win. Here's what they're saying. "Get over it, fanboy." This new Ghostbusters is "a fun, true-blue update of a classic," writes Colin Covert at the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The visuals are much improved over 1984 and "the comedy is as rich as [director] Paul Feig … can get without an R rating." Covert adds Kate McKinnon "walks away with the film; her flawless reaction shots off to the side always eclipse the main gag." Less scary than the original, Ghostbusters is "goofy summer fun" that benefits from Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy's "natural give-and-take comic chemistry," writes Andrew Lapin at NPR. But "the real star" is McKinnon, who "resembles nothing if not a young Bill Murray." However, awkward plotting and editing knock the movie down a peg. Peter Rainer wasn't impressed. "The character comedy quickly gets trampled by the effects (in this case, not special)," he writes at Christian Science Monitor. Leslie Jones "has a few funny freestyle moments, as does McKinnon," but most of the cast has "been far funnier." Meanwhile, Chris Hemsworth plays "the male bimbo—a sex role-reversal joke that never takes off. The whole movie never takes off." Ann Hornaday doesn't agree. "Sunny, slimy, and profoundly silly, the new, lady-centric reboot of Ghostbusters immediately silences the backlash," she writes at the Washington Post. It "seems engineered to remind viewers of what it was meant to be all along: neither a workhorse for arguments about gender politics nor a Trojan horse for desecrating precious generational shibboleths, but simply an easygoing, enjoyable family comedy." (Check out what Bill Murray had to say about the movie.)