Stuffed with wisecracking, punning and essential deadpanning care of the film's most notable star performer Murray (who has such delivery down as a fine art), the film also packs in a half-decent narrative.
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05/06/08
Ghostbusters (1984)
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Reviews Counted:45
Fresh:42
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.6/10
Consensus: Ghostbusters is an infectiously fun blend of special effects and comedy, featuring a hilarious deadpan performance from Bill Murray.
Theatrical Release:00-00-0000
Synopsis: When Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murrary) and his Columbia University colleagues (Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson) are kicked out of their prestigious academic posts, they start a private... [More]
Starring: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis
Director: Ivan Reitman
Reviews for Ghostbusters
Top CriticAs entertaining today as it ever was, a classic to be treasured by all.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe story of a trio of incompetent 'experts' in the paranormal (Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis), who set up as ghostbusters after they are canned from their college sinecures, is less cynical a construction than it sounds.
06/24/06
Top Criticclassic comedy
09/19/04
I had a good giggle watching Ghostbusters again, and I recommend checking it out for an evening of turn-your-brain-off entertainment.
01/01/00
It remains as one of the more entertaining pieces of cinema of the previous decade.
01/01/00
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03/24/08
The comedy here is solid gold, Bill Murray is in peak form, and the effects are a lot of fun.
01/01/00
A screwy and mischievous movie fueled by endless reserves of comic energy
07/23/03
Dan Aykroyd's inventive comedy concept for Ghostbusters attracted an all-star comedy team to bust out an classic of mainstream '80s cinema.
08/05/05
Ghostbusters (1984) is the comedic tale of three ghost exterminators in the city of New York.
01/01/00
This movie is an exception to the general rule that big special effects can wreck a comedy.
10/23/04
Top CriticThe movie's tongue-in-cheek (and pre-subprime) satire of surging capitalist hubris is scarcely mitigated by the necessary fairy-tale ending.
08/05/09
The perfect Xer movie.
01/01/00
Essentially a $30 million version of Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy but not at all a bad time, thanks mainly to Bill Murray's incredibly dry line readings and director Ivan Reitman's maintenance of a moderately coherent tone and plotline.
05/30/07
Murray and scribe Ramis defy all logic and turn it into a movie you'd want to watch over and over.
09/10/02
There is more attention to special effects than to humor.
05/20/03
Top CriticReitman did well with his casting, turning in one of the most original comedies ever.
01/20/02
Whoever thought of having evil's final manifestation take the form of a 100-ft. marshmallow deserves the rational mind's eternal gratitude.
10/05/08
Top CriticFantastic all the way
03/02/08
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