If someone asks if you like Ghostbusters, you say YES!

Rating: 8/10 (25 October 2015)

Ghostbusters is proof that it doesn't matter how absurd or outlandish the premise of your movie is, if you have intelligent writing and humour.
As the movie was written by two of it's main actors, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, the premise comes across as something that two little boys would write when they dream of being superheroes when they grow up.
Three parapsychologists (Nerdy Egon, well-meaning and enthusiastic but bumbling Ray and sarcastic joker Peter) are fired from their cushy jobs as researchers at a New York university and decide to go into business for themselves.
They are joined later by a fourth member of the team, Winston who is not as prominent a character as the other three (his role was allegedly reduced when they couldn't get Eddie Murphy to play him) which is a shame because he arguably gets some of the funniest and most memorable lines in the movie. I still crease up with laughter when he, as the only black Ghostbuster tells the mayor, "I've seen s*** that'll turn you WHITE!"
For me, the charm of Ghostbusters lies in the details; they get about town in a hearse and use an abandoned New York fire station as their base. A lesser movie wouldn't have put any thought or effort into these details.
The movie is sometimes unfairly classed as a children's movie, and sure, everyone I know who watched Ghostbusters as a child loved the big showdown with the giant Stay-Puft Marshmallow man at the end, but our heroes smoke, drink, swear and even indulge in a little adult fantasy humour.
It's actually one of the few movies that not only held up but improved upon watching it as an adult.