Return of the Ghostbusters



Megan and I just downloaded and watched the independent fan film Return of the Ghostbusters. I thought for a fan film, it was really good. Comedy is incredibly difficult to do well, and for a bunch of guys about my age with no money, a video camera and a computer, they did a pretty good fucking job. It looked nice, the story was good and a few of the jokes were funny. For my taste, some of the jokes bordered on parody, and were sort of flat against the quite serious plotline. I'm not really a fan of very topical, pop culture centered comedy mixed in with serious story lines unless it's done amazingly well. Judd Apatow manages it quite well, but he's also a very seasoned comedy writer and director. I felt like some of the comedy in this movie was included just because they wanted to have a joke about Dr. Phil (or someone else). I also think that jokes that a character says that are referential to how they're a character in a movie are incredibly trite and haven't been cutting edge for ten years.

Despite all this, I liked this movie and I recommend it to other Ghostbusters fans.
- posted by Mason @ 10:58 PM