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6. It Has the Tone and Formula Down

So I’ll let you in on my experience watching this movie. I entered a nice, LA adjacent theatre early in the evening, hopeful. The critics I trust either liked it, or at least excepted it as passably decent. I sat in the theatre, watched the trailers, and quieted down as the movie started.

The film opened in a probably haunted house with a tour group being led by—holy crap, is that Zach Woods? The best part of the totally hilarious but underwatched HBO comedy Silicon Valley? Sweet! So Zach guides a tour group through the house, spouts off a couple great jokes, and establishes the ghostly history of the building. Later, we see him leaving the house at night. He hears something spooky, sees some crazy stuff, and flees into the basement. As an unseen ghost appears and starts moving towards him, the familiar theme song starts fading up in the background. As Woods looks into the camera and screams in terror at the ghost we aren’t seeing, the music kicks in full blast and we cut to the title card.

As the logo slapped up onscreen, I turned to a friend, huge smiles on both our faces, and whispered, “This is gonna be fun.” The rest of the movie follows an amended version of that old-school Ghostbusters tone.

That being a theme of experimental science being used for supernatural purposes, a cast of complete underdogs cracking jokes at the expense of the incompetent establishment, and a total love of throwaway jokes. And if that isn’t a Ghostbusters movie, I don’t know what is.