Don't believe the critics, who are mostly reviewing this in an effort to 'balance' the hate that they believe is solely due to its gender switching. The bulk of criticism of this film has absolutely nothing to do with that. This movie plain sucks, and sucks hard. It's just not funny. And with the people involved, it had the responsibility to be vastly better than it was. I love McKinnon, McCarthy, and especially Wiig, so it's not a matter of thinking that women can't be as funny as men. Jones is, in my opinion, one of the least funny SNL players though I don't think she's outright bad. Here though, she was embarrassing. Still, I don't totally blame her - her horrible character is mostly the writer's fault for her terrible lines and the director's fault for the awful performance. Even Wiig was so low-energy through the whole thing. None of the ladies had chemistry with each other. They just went through it, reading their lines, with very little spark. I was completely open-minded to the idea of an all-woman show, even though I thought it was totally unnecessary and felt gimmicky, but they really should not have made it a reboot or remake or whatever they want to call it. It should have been its own original story. As far as the cgi goes, I get why it looks bad. It's on purpose and is trying to be cheesy, the same way the original was. But it just comes off as cheap, not as a clever nod to the first. The biggest problem with it is it's just not funny. Aside from a few of Hemsworth's ditzy antics and one scene where the school dean comes up with a couple creative ways of flipping off Wiig and McCarthy's characters, I didn't put out more than a minor chuckle or two the entire movie. Even my wife, who was so very excited about this movie and primed to laugh at even the smallest joke, complained about how massively disappointing it was. There were so many missed opportunities and misjudgments in this that you really can't help but be angry. The end credits show a perfect example. During the film Hemsworth's character is possessed and temporarily takes control of a large group of military and other people in the street. He makes a motion and everyone in the group strikes a pose straight out of Michael Jackson's Thriller (one of the minor chuckles I spoke of). But that's it. Then during the end credits you see some of the entire sequence where Hemsworth directs the group in the full dance. All you can say is WTF were they thinking, not including at least some of that in the main film? That was actually funny. Instead, we get stuff like the millionth boring Exorcist reference with an over-the-top, unfunny shout and slap that drives out the demon. What you saw in the trailers really are the 'funniest' parts of the movie. If you hated the trailer, you will hate the movie. Do not believe the PC reviewers and critics who are saying different, just because they don't want to be accused of misogyny. This time the annoying internet fanboys who were hating on it before even seeing a single frame of it just happened to accidentally get it right.