Ghostbusters Meta critic user score 2.3

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Soundwave said:

IkePoR said:

I'd like to add that every male in the film is either an idiot, comicly evil or cowardly.  It would be fine if the movie just had a girl as the main character and didn't make it a thing - like The Force Awakens for example.  Instead this movie seems like it's directors were on a mission to trivialize males to further emphasize "the strong female lead".

They didn't really make it a "thing". 

In the Ghostbusters movies generally every other non-Ghostbuster character is an idiot, because the theme of the movies (all of them) in one way or another is that the Ghostbusters are the only ones that know what they're talking about. It's the "us against the world" theme. 

Look at the '84 Ghostbusters, Walter Peck (the EPA guy) is an idiot, the mayor is an idiot, the guy in charge of the fancy hotel they catch Slimer at is an idiot, Louis is a (lovable) idiot, etc. etc. 

There's one specific gag that makes note of the girls being well ... girls and it's a one off line that's pretty funny actually and that's it. 

Otherwise the movie is just about a group of ... Ghostbusters. 

Their more skeptics of the supernatural than idiots. When Walter Peck tells the electrician to "shut it down", the electrician was able to do it. When the city was in danger by the ghosts, the major says "get me the ghostbusters!" They are not idiots in the film.