"I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought."

Rating: 6/10 (8 October 2015)

Somewhat overrated horror/ comedy, about a trio of paranormal investigators who set up shop just before the floodgates of Hell are opened, and Manhattan is overrun with ghosts and goblins and drooling, slobbering, flying green globs of ectoplasm.
The first two thirds are amusing, while the final third is an odd mix of horror, psychobabble, and poorly dated effects work. Perpetually balding Bill Murray has some great one-liners, while Harold Ramis rattles off intellectual-sounding monologues, and Dan Aykroyd just looks happy to be friends with two talented guys who let him go along for the ride. William Atherton has a wonderful turn as the EPA's sleazy suit and tie, pain in the Ghostbusters' collective ass.
Much of the jokes and one-liners went over my head as a child watching this in the 90s, (like their bit walking out of the mortgage office) but I still enjoyed the film; now, the one-liners that I didn't understand then but do now are the funniest parts, and for the most part, the only times in the film I laughed. My mind started to wander several times, I must admit, at a local cinema's double-bill of it, and its sequel, last night. Maybe I'm just tired of it now, after having watched it so many times when I was a child?