Awesome 80's classic!

Rating: 10/10 (15 September 2014)

Before I saw the movie, I know that there was a cartoon. I was familiar with it, but what I did not know that there was a live-action movie. The movie is great, it is so cool and the theme song is so catchy. I knew that in the cartoon the Stay-Puffed Marshmallow Man was a nice guy with a dopey voice, but in the movie, he was a terrifying monster! My brother and I enjoyed Slimer as well. Just look at that big fat green blob of slime (inspired by Bluto from "Animal House"). I always wanted to see the movie as a kid (despite the fact that I saw the cartoon and clips from the cartoon "Muppet Babies"), but my parents wouldn't let me due to the creepy nature of it. I saw it on TV a few times whether it was on Bravo, Esquire, or VH-1. Finally I saw it on the big screen recently and it was like the time I took a time machine and went back to the 1980's! 1984 to be specific. Kind of like the time I saw the original "King Kong" at an old art house theater, was like going back in the 1930's. Specifically 1933. Speaking of which, there were a lot of scenes that paid homage to "King Kong". For instance, the giant temple with gate that opened with Gozor in it, looked like the gate with Ann Darrow being sacrificed before Kong's arrival. The Stay-Puffed Marshmallow Man climbing up the building and getting destroyed at the end was like the climax in the old 30's horror film. Apart from the films theme song, there was another cool song that screamed 80's, "Saving the Day" by Alessi. When my brother and I were very little, the cartoon was as popular as the movie. We had this coloring book called "People in your Neighborhood" (not related to "Sesame Street"), and there was this page that showed firemen fighting fires with hoses shooting water. I went haywire coloring it all up and my brother said that looked like "Ghostbusters", so we ended up turning their hoses to zappers that shoot electricity we drew a ghost in it and he is loosing. My dad had a friend named Bob and he came to visit us when we were little and my brother called him Peter Venkman because he looked like the one in the cartoon than the film. OK, childhood memories aside, as for the special effects, they changed a lot over the past 30 years. I have been watching a lot of movies with special effects that used a ton of CGI such as those super hero movies and monsters such as The 2014 "Godzilla", "The Amazing Spider-Man 2", "Transformers: Age of Extinction", "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes", "Guardians of the Galaxy" and Michael Bay's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". People these days are wondering that if we are spoiling ourselves with a ton of CGI. Are we getting tired of it and do we miss practical effects? Seeing the Terror Dogs growl and leap made me think about it. Fortunately, J.J. Abrams is making "Star Wars Episode Seven" and he will use CGI and practical effects marry in this movie. James Rolfe of "Angry Video Game Nerd" fame made movie based on his web series and he used practical effect like those seen in old Japanese monster movies like the original "Godzilla". "Jurassic World", which is coming out next year, is said to have practical effects with the help of CGI. Bottom line: this is a great movie! I highly recommend it. Followed by an animated series and a sequel. Rated PG for violence, profanity, peril and a ton of scary scenes.