Not so crazy about it

Rating: Null/10 (18 November 2007)

To be honest, I wasn't crazy about this movie. Bill Murray's character comes off like a liar and a manipulator with little interest in science or anything else except scoring with Sigourney Weaver. The film seems to want to position him as the underdog, but in scenes in which others criticize him, I found myself nodding my head and thinking "You're right, he is a loser." Murray's annoying qualities could be forgiven if he was a sympathetic character who grows into a better person, like Dustin Hoffmans' character in the far superior "Tootsie" (A film that Ghostbusters eclipsed as the highest grossing comedy.) But he remains a jerk throughout. The kiss he shares with Sigourney at the end seems like a tacked on happy ending that is entirely unearned. Murray seems disinterested in what is happening in the film, cracking lame jokes but hardly ever involved in the action in any meaningful way. He's the least capable ghostbuster, and the others have to explain things to him. I know this was popular but I'll never understand why.