The reteaming of director Paul Feig with actresses Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig would lead you to think that they are up for another touchtone, success of the exact same magnitude that “Bridesmaids” (2011) enjoyed of—being a commercial and critical success of a film. The succinct answer is an outright no. Although, “Ghostbusters” (2016) manages to remain afloat, mostly because it has a lot of heart, despite its conspicuous problems.
You may argue that McCarthy, Wiig, and Hemsworth are enough of star power; plus, McKinnon, but she still remains more a TV power in lieu of movie power. It is understandable that the film attempts to prove that women can carry an entire film on their own, we have seen it happen more often, particularly during the past five years with films such as, “Frozen” (2013) toping as the highest grossing film of the year ($1.2 billion), “Maleficent” (2014) ending on the 4th place (more than $700 million), and the popular film series of “The Hunger Games” (2012-15), one of the highest grossing franchise of all time ($3 billion in revenues from the 5 films). Nonetheless, it lacked more star power, perhaps like Feig’s “Spy” (2015), which also started McCarthy. “Spy” counted with star power across the board, with movie stars, such as, Jason Statham, Jude Law, and Rose Byrne. …show more content…
However, when it came to rebooting the franchise, after Harold Ramis died, Columbia Pictures decided to green-light an all-female cast film. It seems as if gender is now a competition in Hollywood. Nonetheless, it should not be a competition, but rather a demonstration that men and women can work together as a team, that both genders can compliment each other. The film would highlight and target other a wider audience, if there was, at least, one main male character mixed with the other female
You may argue that McCarthy, Wiig, and Hemsworth are enough of star power; plus, McKinnon, but she still remains more a TV power in lieu of movie power. It is understandable that the film attempts to prove that women can carry an entire film on their own, we have seen it happen more often, particularly during the past five years with films such as, “Frozen” (2013) toping as the highest grossing film of the year ($1.2 billion), “Maleficent” (2014) ending on the 4th place (more than $700 million), and the popular film series of “The Hunger Games” (2012-15), one of the highest grossing franchise of all time ($3 billion in revenues from the 5 films). Nonetheless, it lacked more star power, perhaps like Feig’s “Spy” (2015), which also started McCarthy. “Spy” counted with star power across the board, with movie stars, such as, Jason Statham, Jude Law, and Rose Byrne. …show more content…
However, when it came to rebooting the franchise, after Harold Ramis died, Columbia Pictures decided to green-light an all-female cast film. It seems as if gender is now a competition in Hollywood. Nonetheless, it should not be a competition, but rather a demonstration that men and women can work together as a team, that both genders can compliment each other. The film would highlight and target other a wider audience, if there was, at least, one main male character mixed with the other female