Ghostmates

Bad movie, didnt meet my expectationsbro :(( just a waste of time

The Smosh dudes pull another rabbit out of their funny hats! Ghostmates is the second Smosh feature film and they are consistently funny again!

The story is simple - Ed dies a goofy death and Charlie must help Ed achieve three goals before he can go to heaven. And the adventure begins! They meet two girls that are just superb carefree characters and loves follows. There is even a Bollywood takeoff in the story which is wonderfully done.

Watch it! It's worth every minute.

Writing more about the story will only ruin it for those who haven't seen it.

Smosh's second feature film, "Ghostmates," is so unbelievably incompetent that I don't know where to begin.

It's a movie starring YouTube comedians Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla, known for their channel Smosh, as Eddie and Charlie. On the day he wants to ask his girlfriend Jessica (Francesca Galassi) to move in with him, he inadvertently chokes himself to death on his necktie when it gets caught in the door. But instead of going to heaven, Eddie is doomed to haunt the apartment until he can make things right on Earth and put himself at peace.

Enter Charlie, an unemployed cartoonist and electronics salesman who's been out of work for six months, yet somehow has money to shell out for a new home. He moves into the dead Eddie's suite, and Eddie twists his arm into helping him set things right so he can ascend to heaven. All of this is in spite of Eddie having the ability to interact with the world, like using a ketchup bottle to write on the wall or being able to enter people's bodies to possess them, and with a skill set like that, it's anyone's guess why Eddie needs Charlie to help him at all.

Even with a premise as worn and as overused as this one, the Smosh team still manages to make a mess of it. They don't add anything new, exciting, or surprising to a very predictable story, but that's not even the worst part of it. Even the easiest things they manage to muck up. There's no consistency for how Eddie the Ghost behaves, for example. He's able to walk through walls and inhabit people's bodies, but when his ex-girlfriend tries to touch his hand, hers doesn't phase through his. Eddie is also only able to lift up objects, it seems, when the plot demands it, because there are numerous circumstances when conflict could have been resolved if Eddie had just picked something up to prove he's actually a ghost.

On a technical level, the direction is lazy, the sound mix is abysmal, and the cinematography is that of a YouTube video with no effort being made to make it appear cinematic. Shadows on people's faces at nighttime? Really? For being produced by YouTube Red, this is a film that shows very little production value.

Its pacing is also abhorrent, and we don't even meet Padilla's character until we're almost at the 10-minute mark. Eddie doesn't even have a goal until 20 minutes into the movie. The middle is paced just fine, but there aren't any stakes for our awkward goofball leads, and the ending third is just speedy and weightless.

Yet the film's main folly is that its target audience is one that doesn't even know what the word "folly" means. Plot points are repeated over and over again, messages are hammered into the viewer like a brick to the face, and all of the comedy completely lacks both humor and subtlety. The "jokes" screenwriter Ryan Finnerty and stars Hecox and Padilla have devised for this film are uncannily bereft of any punchlines. And when there are comedic situations in the film, they exist only for a joke and not to serve the story. Why is T. Pain in this film? Because someone thought it'd be funny. Why is there a conversation about corn dogs that goes on for a full minute and serves no purpose to the plot? Because someone thought it'd be funny. Why does the story grind to a halt for an out-of-nowhere and probably offensive Bollywood spoof? Because someone thought it'd be funny.

That the film's jokes are aimed at such a young demographic that its audience wouldn't even care about the lack of punchlines would be forgivable if not for how seriously the film takes itself.

The things that people love about Smosh, based on their Food Fight videos alone, is their unabashed goofiness, their absurdist sense of humor, and their fast-paced, zany action. "Ghostmates" has none of this. It's taking two comedians known for their silliness and placing them in a grounded, dramatic piece that puts a dull story before the comedy, and I'm sure that's something that no one -- not even Smosh fans -- wants to see.

After watching about 15 minutes of this I had to just stop. Not a single laugh to be had in 15 minutes and me being bored out of my mind and beginning to be slightly annoyed. I just had to turn it off and never look. Plus I learned my lesson from the first Smosh movie, which was more entertaining than from what I saw of this film. But seriously, the guys from Smosh are great and their YouTube channel is one of few channel which consistently put out great content. But OMG they need to be more selective choosing which films they want to be involved in. It is strange because they literally look bored while acting in it. I'm just trying to figure out why they would make a movie when it looked like they didn't even want to be there. Whatever. I'm over it.

After the failure of Smosh: The Movie last year next year we got this movie starring Ian & Anthony noy playing as themselves but instead with fictional character names this time except that this movie manages to be way more inferior also in fact worse than the 'Smosh: The Movie' it actually had some unique ideas even if it didn't work with the comedy of it falls completely flat on its face this movie with title of 'Ghostmates' itself also as a comedy movie just feels soulless rather being funny It's really hard to write this review weather I would recommend this to a smosh fan or a regular average movie viewer without trying to sound harsh but their is nothing in this movie worth seeing I don't recommend anybody to anybody watching it.

Here's a thing when I first watched this movie I feel completely nothing, Cold, Empty, Soulless and not even laughing once in the entire movie after I got the end of the movie unlike with 'Smosh: The Movie' I try to pretend I liked it and it was good when I was a kid but in reality it was not a good movie, I'm not saying the movie has some bad acting it does have some decent acting from Ian & Anthony the main characters of the movie but I can't remember the names of fictional characters but most of the time the acting is amature from the cast of the movie not that I blame they had nothing to work with it beside that one credit their is nothing positive I could about this movie I could say it's a waste of time I rather watch 'Smosh: The Movie' or 'Fred: The Movie' I'm being completely honest to myself their is nothing redeeming about this movie when I comedy film fails at being funny or entertaining than it's not worth watching it

I know that making movies is hard but with this film's budget which I had no idea what the budget after lots of research for this movie but I can't find the actual budget so I'm just gonna guess it's around maybe 2 or 1 million dollars but they could of done something way more creative with it but I guess the director couldn't come up with any creative in his mind. So overall I do not recommend this movie to any one if you are getting in to it don't expect any redeeming qualities but I do warn you it's mostly boring, I'm giving this one 1 out of 10 on IMDb and on Letterboxd giving it a 0.5 out of 5 stars.