The cultural phenomenon of 1984 that made us recite a Ray Parker, Jr. tune over and over and over and over.... There's not much more that can be said about the film. It's one of those films where almost everything clicks. It hasn't aged in the last 25 years because it was actually a revolutionary idea. Name a film before it that put a bunch of comics in a sci-fi fantasy flick (that worked anyway). It's the comedic timing that makes this film better than your average flick in 1984. Each actor had their personality down pat right down to top '80's asshole William Atherton as Mr. Pecker (my name is Peck).
Ghostbusters paved the way for the large comic ensemble big budget slobberknockers that have been thrust at us for the last quarter of the century (I'm looking at you Tropic Thunder). The film took a genre that Caddyshack and Animal House developed and went the full nine with it. Meet the grand daddy.
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