The new Ghostbusters film has faced criticism (Picture: Columbia Pictures)

The first reviews of the Ghostbusters reboot are in and it seems to be a mixed bag.

Ghostbusters review: In a film dominated by women, it’s Chris Hemsworth who delivers the most fun The new film, directed by Paul Feig, features an all-female cast with Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones replacing Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson from the original.

The reboot has received flak over its gender swap concept while the film’s trailer became the most disliked in YouTube history.

At the premiere of the film at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, McCarthy blasted the film’s critics saying: ‘Any time someone critiques something that has not yet been made, I find peculiar.

‘It’s like giving a book review to an author who’s like “I haven’t written it yet”.

‘I don’t pay much attention to it. It’s not based in the world.’

The reboot features an all-female cast (Picture: Columbia Pictures)

While Wiig added: ‘It’s really sad that people felt that way, in combination with actually not listening to it.

‘We knew we were making the movie in the spirit of the first two, with the people who made the first two. People need to stop being so mean.’

The film has earned mixed reviews from film critics.

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Metro

There’s also plenty here for those nostalgic for the original to enjoy – with all of the original cast showing up (not to mention a sweet tribute to the late Harold Ramis), ultimately though it’s a bit of a mixed bag, not nearly as terrible as some might have feared but less engaging than its 1980s cousin.

The Daily Telegraph

The 2016 vintage of Ghostbusters speaks to its time with the same withering comic accuracy and hot-air-balloon-sized sense of fun as the 1984 original.

The Guardian

Fun oozes from almost every frame; likewise the energy of a team excited to be revolutionising the blockbuster landscape. Let’s just hope everyone will enjoy the view.

HitFix

First and foremost, though, Ghostbusters is a big fat slice of silly summer entertainment, confident and sometimes quite beautiful.

IGN

The problems with the film come down to the movie itself, as the pacing and editing don’t hold up what otherwise could have been a sharp, quick-witted reentry into a world fans hold dear.

Variety

The problem isn’t that Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson created characters too iconic to surpass; the fault lies in the fact that this new “Ghostbusters” doesn’t want us to forget them, crafting its new team in the earlier team’s shadow.

The Hollywood Reporter

One of the reboot’s biggest problems is that its four leads seem more like female variations on the original models than fully formed characters in their own right.

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