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Rating: 5 out of 5
“Who Ya Gonna Call?”
Ohhhhhhhh! I have been waiting a while to write a review of this movie, and you already know it will be a five-star rating from me. GHOSTBUSTERS!!!!! This review is on the original film, which is one of my all-time favorite movies. It is in the top three! The other two are the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the first Jurassic Park. I love Ghostbusters so much that I can recite the film word for word. I learned my first curse word from this film. When I was a kid, I played with the shapes and tried to put them in their correct hole. For some reason, I couldn’t, and I said “Awww Shit” out loud. My parents couldn’t figure out where I learned it until they put on the movie. My grandma sewed me a uniform and bought me a proton pack. When the film first came out, I couldn’t say Ghostbusters. I said Ghostbusees. Classic from me. I love this film from Slimer to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
Back in 1984, the year before I was born, Ghostbusters dropped on the world. Directed by Ivan Reitman and written by two stars of the film Da,n Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, one of the greatest comedies ever made was released. Ghostbusters starts in an EPIC way with the New York Public Library. A little librarian is gathering books and heads downstairs to an empty section. As she is placing books back, several other books move behind her, going from one shelf to another. She doesn’t notice and moves on with passing a card catalog when they suddenly open, and the cards start flying out. Scared out of her little mind, she bolts it until she stops and encounters an unseen ghost. A perfect way to start!
The film introduces three parapsychology professors: Peter Venkman (Murray), Ray Stantz (Aykroyd), and Egon Spengler (Ramis). They get a call about the ghost and go investigate. At first, they see nothing until they see the ghost reading a book. The trio try to capture it with their bare hands when the ghost goes ape shit and scares them out of the building. As they return to the university, they are fired and decide to start their own paranormal investigation and elimination service called “Ghostbusters.” They rent a firehouse as their base and develop AWESOME high-tech proton packs that can capture and contain ghosts. They also hire a spunky secretary named Janine (Potts). As they start, their first customer is cellist Dana Barrett (Weaver), whose apartment is doing crazy stuff. Her apartment might be possessed.
Business is slow when they get a call from a fancy, and this is where things shoot off for the crew. The ghost that is terrorizing the hotel is the one and only SLIMER!!!! Slimer goes on a terror with eating all the food and just being a nasty little shit. When the Ghostbusters manage to capture the ghost, business starts booming. The crew even hired another member of the team by the name of Winston Zeddemore (Hudson). As the success comes, the group soon learns that Dana’s apartment is a gateway to a god named Zuul. Shit is about to go down, and I’m not afraid of no ghosts.
The film is great with adding humor at all the right points. One scene is after the Ghostbusters make it big. We see them running around the city, capturing ghosts, and getting love from a female ghost. I see you, Ray. The Slimer scene was great and funny because it was the first time seeing the crew going against a ghost. Now the film gets crazy when that damn EPA comes and says the Ghostbusters are a scam. What do they do? They arrest my boys and unleash all the ghosts. Also, the scenes with Tully are hilarious. When the demon dog attacks him and he runs is my favorite. When he says, “You want a milk bone?” I laugh every single time.
The final scene probably hooked me to this movie. Zuul tells them that she is about to unleash her destroyer upon the world, and it will come in the form of what is thought of. Thanks to Ray, the destroyer is a giant Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. It was crazy to see a giant marshmallow man walking around MYC. Honestly, in NYC, it wouldn’t surprise me at all.
Every actor and actress in this film did a great job. Bill Murray is hilarious and my favorite Ghostbuster. I like his little dance after he gets a date with Dana. Aykroyd is the strange one but also hilarious in many of his scenes. He is the one that worries the most. What can I say about Harold Ramis? You always need the smartest one in the group, and Ramis plays Ego as the biggest nerd on the planet. Have you seen that hair? I love Sigourney Weaver. She was FOINE, and when she got possessed, who wouldn’t want to date her as the gatekeeper? Annie Potts was hilarious with her New York accent and telling the boys what to do. Finally, Ernie Hudson wasn’t in the film too much, but he was the cool one.
Regarding the soundtrack, the only song that needs to be discussed is the theme song “Ghostbusters” by Ray Parker Hr. The song was a #1 hit and was nominated for Best Original Song at the Oscars. The song is fun to listen to, but there is controversy surrounding the song. Parker seemed to use some of Huey Lewis and the News’s song “I Want a New Drug.” The case was settled out of court, but the song is still awesome and one of the best Halloween songs around.
I could type another three or four pages about Ghostbusters, but I am going to stop here. This film is my favorite, and it was a favorite back in 1984. It holds a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. It was the second-highest-grossing film of the year behind the hilarious Beverly Hills Cop. The film is hilarious and has spawned countless remakes, sequels, and cartoon shows. I’m about to find my old-school proton pack and fight some ghosts.
BONUS CLIP!!!
