One of the best syntheses of comedy and effects ever

Rating: 8/10 (15 August 2002)

Ghostbusters remains one of the best syntheses of comedy and great showy special effects ever. (Its closest rival is perhaps Men in Black.) The only negative: I guess it has to accept blame for all the mediocre (and terrible) bloated big-bucks pseudo-comedies that have tried to do the same thing over the years.
Not sure it was worth it--but Ghostbusters itself was and remains fresh, funny, just a tiny bit sexy (the "Keymaster," indeed!), and just spectacular to look at. A high point for legendary effects guru Richard Edlund, certainly, and for the first-generation SNL cast as well.
An essential part of the 1980's film canon, for better and worse.