He Ain't Afraid of No Ghosts

For some reason, my child is into Ghostbusters. I'm not sure where it came from other than the previews he's been seeing and maybe Kevin McCarthy reviewing them. He's so obsessed that when his class went to Build-a-Bear Workshop, he ended up buying a Ghostbuster's outfit for his newest bear. He named him Cheesy though, which I didn't get, other than except through child logic: "because he likes cheese!"

So he's constantly been telling me that he's brave, and not scared, except still of chuck E. Cheese. So my deal with him?

Make it through the originals and then we'll go. So I recorded them for him on AMC and we watched one Friday morning (when he was out sick from school) and the other Saturday morning. While the movies were filled with Bill Murray's outright silliness, Dan Aykroyd's goofy humor, and great sly humor by Harold Ramis (in GII saying "More like my epididymis" in response to Bill Murray saying "I bet they love your big brain"), there really aren't that many ghost appearances. In addition, the animation probably looked elementary to Ayden, who is used to realistic-2D computer animation in his cartoons.

True to our word, we took him. And even though he jumped at times, he still was not scared. Of course, he did have to go to the bathroom twice, and always during the best parts.

And how did the grown-ups like it? Great reboot of the franchise. There were cameos from everyone from the original film that is still living, except Rick Moranis. And while the cameos made a great overall homage to the original film, //I have agree with Kevin: they weren't really needed. The plus side is that younger generations will not get spoiled by this since the originals came out in 1984 and 1989, respectively. In addition, Chris Hemsworth (who we know as Thor in Marvel movie franchise history) is hilarious!

Interesting tidbit that I learned about the movie though. Originally, Ernie Hudson's role was supposed to be bigger and more integrated, but was chopped at the last minute. Winston Zeddmore's character background was actually that of an ex-astronaut. Read more about his comments here and here. I dare anyone to read these and then look at his role in there; you'll read it very differently with this knowledge.