This movie is a soft reboot of the classic Ghostbusters story. Four women form a new team that hunts ghosts in New York. They wear the gear, use the famous tools, and face a big ghost crisis in the city. The original male heroes only show up in short cameos. The main plot still mixes jokes with ghost action and big set pieces.
The film puts female leads in every hero role and treats that choice as central. Men around them are often useless, vain, or hostile. One lead is strongly shown as queer through flirting and manner. The team also reads and laughs at sexist online hate, and a villain mocks them with a sexist line. Female skill and male failure drive much of the comedy and the reboot idea.
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Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Ghostbusters.
Woke representation / casting
The all-female lead team is the film’s defining choice for a franchise long known for four men. It was sold as the female Ghostbusters. Chris Hemsworth plays Kevin as a glamorous but useless male receptionist on purpose. One black lead sits among four heroes, and skilled women fill every main hero role.
86%
Woke political dialogue
Viewers hear clear gender-politics beats. The team reads and mocks sexist YouTube comments. The villain sneers that they shoot like girls. Male academic and authority figures brush the women off. The movie is not full of speeches, but these moments are easy to spot.
45%
Identity-driven story themes
The reboot rests on women proving they can be Ghostbusters while men are useless or in the way. Female skill and male failure power the comedy. Holtzmann is strongly queer-coded, and Feig treated her as gay despite studio caution. Online misogyny is written into the story as something the heroes laugh off.
74%
Western institutional / cultural critique
Schools and city leaders dismiss or use the women. The usual gender order is flipped, with dumb male support and capable female leads. The point is feminist pushback against male gatekeeping more than a wide attack on Western life or faith.
48%
Woke character or canon changes
This soft reboot swaps the original male Ghostbusters idea for an all-female team. New characters take the same brand roles, tools, logo, and big Manhattan ghost fight. Queer Holtzmann is an identity layer the classic core did not have. The change is identity-first, not a neutral retelling.
91%
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
The film became a major culture-war fight. Its trailer era drew huge dislike on YouTube, plus review-bombing and charges of forced feminism. Donald Trump mocked the all-female remake, and “woke Ghostbusters” is still used online. Complaints focus on the gender swap, anti-male jokes, and agenda casting.
94%
Creator track record context
Paul Feig drives the project with female-centered comedies and a strong defense of this cast. He frames backlash as needless outrage. Co-writer Katie Dippold backs inclusivity, and producer Ali Bell is tied to the same reboot. Most other franchise figures score lower, so the creator signal is mid to upper mainly from Feig.
58%
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