slime me again

Rating: 8/10 (17 May 2006)

I loved this film. Its just magical and it works better than its slapstick template. One of the best comedies of the 80's which had a huge promotional campaign of a poster with the traffic no entry sign with a ghost on it. With no accompanying explanation this 'by its repetition it aroused curiosity and irritation in the public to demand what this advertising was for, so achieving the advertisers intention" Â– Rachel Gordon, Stephen Armourae,. Ghostbusters Groundbreaking comedy of the 80's in many ways since it took Abbot and Costello's slapstick films using horror characters and presented to a new audience with 3 decades of Hollywood change in style and technology. Hollywood realised that their business surged in the summer months from a teenage market. The 2 popular genres were crazy comedies and scary films with CGI. The answer was to mix the 2. Ghostbuster's stands out from other comedies by delivering satire on contemporary society and parodies TV advertising and dating rituals. The problem with the film is that Ernie Hudson as the black member was never treated as an equal member of the team in the script. Life has come to imitate art: the British actor and writer Stephen Armourae is training as a scientist like the Spengler character and is more like Murray than he would admit. And he's a parapsychology researcher like all of them. Its strength is the ensemble performances centred on Murray and Ackroyd who showed they were at the best in a team. Despite being brought in From Saturday Night Live where they were solo comic performers.