Ouch... the only experience I've had with tickets out here so far is of the parking variety, those "Parking Enforcement" vehicles are like ninjas.

He's a man of his word, he just sent the Omaha Steaks package to the wrong doorstep... and here I thought he was just trying to woo me to get a good review.

Well guys, I loaded it up on my MacBook and took it home last night (no internet at the casa de NetSolo)... all I have to say is...

Holy shit. I dug the hell out of this movie.

Brax and his team really put together a fine looking fanfilm.

Spoilers abound below. You've been warned.

I have to say, when I got to the Ecto chase through the streets of Denver - I completely forgot that I was watching a fan film. So evident is the fact that Hank and his crew put a lot of hours, a lot of money, and a lot of thought into all 80 minutes of this fanfilm. You can tell that everyone involved has come leaps and bounds from Freddy vs. the Ghostbusters, even the two carry-over stars Tim Johnson and J. Michael Weiss. While Johnson has difficulty wrapping his tongue around a lot of the Aykroyd-esque techno-monologues and still crunches a line here and there, he pulls off the new-age Spock routine flawlessly. New to the series is Joel Hanson, who takes the brunt of the commie/Mother Russia jokes in stride and continues the legacy of fuzzy foreigners in Ghostbuster films. I swear that Brax had a mike hidden on the bench of our high-school hockey team The Red Army, because some of the "Red" ribs sounded awfully familiar. Great minds sir, great minds...

Sure, it's a fan film so there's a few moments where you feel like you're watching a direct to video Full Moon-esque flick but weighing in at over an hour there were only two points where things seemed to run long. The editing is mercifully tight, the dialogue punchy, and the script felt trim and refined. No offense to some of the other fan filmmakers in our community but sometimes just passing the two minute mark where we've made it through three lines of dialogue and you decided not to put the camera on sticks for all two minutes of it and I feel like gouging my eyes out. I cringe in fear when I hear people talking about two hour run-times on their fanfilms. Such is not the case with Return - we dive straight into things starting with a humorous encounter with some campers attempting to tell a ghost story when they're interrupted and the flick cooks from there.

And how clever was the opening title sequence into a montage? Fucking brilliant.

This fan film just shines because of the production value, an original score that incorporates the classic Bernstein themes and adds a humorous and light-hearted touch to things gives the movie such a polished shine by punctuating the snappy dialogue. Even the props look to have been made on a high budget, a remote controlled trap appears in the opening moments of the film - and then, of course, the Ecto chase. Everyone involved from FX to editor certainly has something for their demo reels from that sequence.

You can just tell that everyone involved in this production was just reveling in the fact that they were making a Ghostbusters movie, congrats to Hank for pulling off what I'm sure all of us have dreamed about at some point. An 86-minute (well-made... I must stress) film regardless of the content or subject matter is an uphill battle to begin with no matter your experience or your budget, then you throw in making a flick for a fickle set of fanboys and it's even more daunting of a task. But the guys really pulled it off.

But please Brax, I'm begging of you... high quality QuickTime. Let people see how gorgeous this film really looks, iFilm's killing ya.