As long as they're funny, why the hell not? There's nothing particularly gender-specific about the roles or the premise.
As far as "pandering," would it be "pandering" if it were a mixed-gender cast? Would it be "pandering" if it were an all-male cast? Nearly all casting is a blend of creative design and gimmickry / pandering to some audience demographic or another.
And as for the "Oooh, they're ugly / fat / funny-looking" crowd … yeah, like Murray, Ramis, and Aykroyd were all cut stud-muffins, even thirty years ago.
Bah. I'm tempted to see it for no other reason than to tweak the yahoos complaining about it.
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I think I'd be more apt to see this if they weren't trying to "re-invent" the Ghostbusters for no other reason, in my opinion, than to try to hook in fans of the franchise….which I don't think it's going to do, anyway.
I see it as a P.C. ploy and nothing else.
They keep calling it a reboot and I really hope its not. I'd much rather see a Ghostbusters: The Next Generation kind of thing.
But that would require them to come up with an original plot so …
If it's a new story, I'm good with it. If it's a remake, I don't see the point. We have the original!