'80s' New Yorkers Terrified of Dogs and Dating

Rating: 10/10 (6 June 2006)

This film is a classic comedy. It is a feel good movie with a little immature humour, "is it a star?", "yes it is," and a business venture with TV advertising and bad guys, "shut it off."
Seeing Ghostbusters as a view on '80's New York dogs and dating is easy to do. The two possessed dogs, minions of Gozer the Gozarian, and the following lines add to this view. "OK, who brought the dog?" "We're exterminators." to man waiting for lift in hotel. "Ray, when someone asks you if you are a god, you say 'Yes'."
The Keymaster resorting to talking to the blinkered, chained and domesticated horse not the driver after being chased through Central Park by a giant, possessed dog, is an example of self-therapy to escape Zoophobia.
Sigourney Weaver, powerful and womanly as ever plays the love interest. A classical musician, confirmed in her single word "us", who becomes possessed into the Gatekeeper. Although the symbolism of the male key/keymaster and the female gate/gatekeeper is fairly apparent, it is doubtful that the ideal pairing for the taller than Venkman classical musician would be the short tax accountant a few doors down.
The film has catchy pop music, likable characters, three white guys, two of whom wrote the script, and a black buy and a young white lady using empathy to add to their audience demographics, and good for the time special effects.
A commentary on scientific research "Einsein did his best stuff as a patent clerk," and the height of New York buildings "let me know when we get into the twenties," this film is eminently watchable.
--- by Jerome, computer coder, author, and voter of 1,000 films.