Melissa McCarthy's 7 Best And 7 Worst Movies Ranked

The "Ghostbusters" reboot casts Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, and Kate McKinnon as the next generation of ghost-fighting heroes. As a soft reboot of the original two "Ghostbusters" movies from the 1980s, director Paul Feig decided to cast some of the biggest female comedians of the time to take the mantle left behind by Bill Murray, Dan Akyroyd, Ernie Hudson, and Harold Ramis. In the story, McCarthy plays the role of Abby Yates, a paranormal scientist who is a true believer in all things ghostly and wants to collect hard evidence.

This controversial film faced a lot of negative reactions before it even came out, mostly because of the choice to cast an entirely female lead. Melissa McCarthy herself finally opened up about the "Ghostbusters" reboot backlash, noting how she believes that "everybody should be able to tell the stories they want to tell" and that she simply doesn't understand how anyone could disagree. 

Regardless of what a subset of audiences thought, critics praised the comedic performances of all the leads, and Angie Han of SlashFilm praised the movie as a highly entertaining film that was teeming with new devices and monsters.