Ghostbusters starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, and Ernie Hudson is reviewed by Matt Atchity (Editor-in-chief Rottentomatoes.com) and Christy Lemire (www.ChristyLemire.com).

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Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson star as a quartet of Manhattan-based “paranormal investigators”. When their government grants run out, the former three go into business as The Ghostbusters, later hiring Hudson on. Armed with electronic paraphernalia, the team is spectacularly successful, ridding The Big Apple of dozens of ghoulies, ghosties and long-legged beasties. Tight-lipped bureaucrat William Atherton regards the Ghostbusters as a bunch of charlatans, but is forced to eat his words when New York is besieged by an army of unfriendly spirits, conjured up by a long-dead Babylonian demon and “channelled” through beautiful cellist Sigourney Weaver and nerdish Rick Moranis. The climax is a glorious sendup of every Godzilla movie ever made-and we daresay it cost more than a year’s worth of Japanese monster flicks combined. Who’d ever dream that the chubby, cheery Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man would turn out to be the most malevolent threat ever faced by New York City? When the script for Ghostbusters was forged by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, John Belushi was slated to play the Bill Murray role; Belushi’s death in 1982 not only necessitated the hiring of Murray, but also an extensive rewrite. The most expensive comedy made up to 1984, Ghostbusters made money hand over fist, spawning not only a 1989 sequel but also two animated TV series (one of them partially based on an earlier live-action TV weekly, titled The Ghost Busters. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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every few
decades an event comes
along of biblical
proportions hello welcome to what the
flick we’re doing a very special time
travel edition of what the flick because
Ghostbusters is being released in
theaters across the country this weekend
30th Anniversary yes and like 800
something theaters this one of Matt’s
favorite movies ever Matt do you want to
tell our audience everybody’s favorite
movie ever do you want to tell our
audience what Ghostbusters is about uh
yes if you’ve been born in a cave
Ghostbusters is the story of three
scientists who get kicked out of their
University position and go into business
for themselves uh as exterminators
hunting ghosts in New York let’s watch
the
trailer this Labor Day weekend hey
anybody see a ghost celebrate the 30th
Anniversary this is big this is very big
of America’s favorite comedy we got one
it’s looking at
[Applause] me he’s slim me on the big screen I
can’t wait to get a look at this thing
okay who brought the dog we better split
up yeah we can do more damage that way
SM it’s the stay puffed marshmallow
man if you and your staff could please
wait out here we’ll take care of
everything Ghostbusters 30th Anniversary
fully restored presented in 4k Harold
RIS died in the last year or so and we
all look back on so many of the
important 80s movies that Harold Routh
was involved with and he co-wrote this
with Dan akroy Evan rman directed it it
was a good time for movies back then
this was a good time for movies have you
read the oral history about the making
of this movie no it’s fascinating I
can’t remember it might be Vanity Fair
that did it but somebody does this
really long and talks about acro’s
original treatment for this movie was
something like 300 pages I mean just
gigantic because he’s got a background
in like his dad had studied paranormal
stuff and and he’s kind of got a bit of
a background in that and what they ended
up with you know this was a movie that
he’ originally written for uh him and
John balushi to star in and Belushi was
going to star in the uh Bill Murray role
uh and then yeah different right um the
uh there was a part in there for Eddie
Murphy um which didn’t happen you know
the ended up with um Ernie Hudson uh
this is a great movie I think this
movie on paper when you describe it like
guys go to business as exterminators for
ghosts nobody was doing sci-fi horror
comedy like at this level this mixture
of genre mixure of genres and you know
this almost sounds like something like
early Sam Ry might do right but but this
movie’s in in the scope of what they do
they’re all over New York this movie
comes off like this huge multi-million
dollar production and you kind of look
back on it and it’s kind of insane that
someone would actually fund this and I
think that there was probably a lot of
nervousness at the studio about this but
this movie ended up being this huge
Blockbuster hit and kind of caught
everyone off guard and it works it’s
really funny you know it’s vintage Bill
Murray uh Dan ao’s really funny uh
Harold Ramos is great and it kind of
reminds you you know we didn’t see
enough of Ramos on screen this is
probably one of the most fun characters
he’s ever done yeah the banter is so
good and they make it seem so effort and
of course it was not of course you know
it was a lot of effort to make it look
effortless um I wonder how looking at
technology now I wonder how going back
and looking at Ghostbusters how dated it
will look like the stay puffed
Marshmallow Man or the stuff that
happens with Dana yeah I wonder how it’s
going to look on a big screen now and
will that be Charming the way like you
look at the the first Star Wars movie
and the rough Hune kind of tactile
nature of it makes it Charming because
it’s you know that was how you made
movies back then I wonder how it will
look on a big screen to see it again I I
I think it’s worth seeing I mean this is
a super funny movie it’s endlessly
quotable you know um I think that this
is something that it will be going and
seeing this on a big screen where people
you know there’ be very few people that
go and see this that haven’t actually
seen it it’s gon to be fun it’s G to be
like a big party because it’ll be like
going to see the band that you love that
hasn’t performed in 20 years think it’s
great as right and people be yelling
along with the screen I I might go see
this myself this week I was going to ask
you so would you take Gab to this Gabe’s
going to be 11 like probably we were
like 12 1984 probably I mean there’s
some scar you know there are some
moments in the movie that get a little
intense so for possessed or whatever
well and the scene like when you know
when the arms come up through the chair
and drag her into the like that scene’s
pretty intense and pretty scary um it is
staged with some scary moments you know
and that stuff is easier to take at home
on the TV when you’re actually in the
dark theater where you get you know I
mean we know this scary movies are
scarier in a theater than they are at
home so I think those elements are going
to be more exciting so I I don’t know if
I’m going to take Gabe to that um I
might but it might be too intense but
this is a great movie I mean who doesn’t
love Ghostbusters the energy is great
the banter is great and in so of its
time in that you have the song tie in
like that doesn’t happen anymore not as
much like Let It Go is an anomaly that
you actually hear Let It Go on the radio
right but like like everyone heard that
terrible who you going to call song
right all the damn time so I think it’s
very 80s in the the packaging of it well
this is a movie that gets held up
constantly as an example of conservative
values especially for 80s era because
it’s small business owners have a
successful business and the EPA comes
along and screws it all up I mean that’s
total Reagan Era conservative feeling
when the EPA was
demonized right and you know who’s the
bad guy in this William Aon as the as
right big government yes and it’s it’s
very 80s New York so it’s not going to
be like disneyi post Giuliani era New
York some excellent shoulder pads oh yes
and big here big poofy bang so so go see
Ghostbusters if it’s near your town like
I have not seen Ghostbusters probably it
might be 30 years Ghostbusters is a
movie for me that every time it comes on
cable for the most part I’ll put the
remote down because it’s unlikely
anything else is going to be better on
any other channel right so uh what’s
your score like an eight it’s pretty
great his time I would give it a nine
it’s not perfect but uh our score would
be eight and a half it is certified
fresh at 97% on the Tomato Meter it’s
classic go see it
bye

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