Who You Gonna Call?

Rating: 9/10 (22 October 2009)

When you've got uninvited paranormal guests or if you've accidentally intruded on them if you've acquired some haunted living space this film answers the question. Just who you going to call? Ghost Busters.
It all begins innocently enough, parapsychologist Bill Murray has lost his grant money, his university won't let him stay on to conduct all kinds of experimentation. What to do?
In Ghost Busters Bill Murray takes his knowledge and with a collection of some interesting colleagues, Dan Ackroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson forms his own outfit, the Ghost Busters. If you've got intruders from another dimension, they guarantee to get rid of them. They have a first interesting call from the public library at Bryant Park, that's a shakedown cruise for our heroes.
But the real challenge comes from Sigourney Weaver who has all kinds of weird visitors including an ancient Hittite Goddess who emanates right from her refrigerator. That one Murray is going to give his personal attention.
Ghost Busters busted a whole lot of box office back in the day and with good reason. It's a rollickingly funny comedy that doesn't quite come down to the level of Police Academy movies. These comedy veterans from the small screen know their business and they integrate their own personalities into a fine comic unit. A lot like the Crazy Gang comedies from the UK back in the day.
Ghost Busters got two Oscar nominations for Special Effects and for its catchy title song. It's one of those you can't get out of your head once you've seen the film. In fact more than in most films, the song itself almost becomes a character in the film.
It's one of the funniest films in the Eighties and it's one of those that spawned an equally funny sequel. Can't go wrong with either of them.