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		List Price: $28.95		Label: Sony Pictures Salesrank: 628 Released: June 16, 2009
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		MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:

Genre: Comedy
Rating: PG
Release Date: 16-JUN-2009
Media Type: Blu-Ray

Description of Ghostbusters [Blu-ray]:
Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis wrote the script, but Bill Murray gets all the best lines and moments in this 1984 comedy directed by Ivan Reitman (Meatballs). The three comics, plus Ernie Hudson, play the New York City-based team that provides supernatural pest control, and Sigourney Weaver is the love interest possessed by an ancient demon. Reitman and company are full of original ideas about hobgoblins--who knew they could "slime" people with green plasma goo?--but hovering above the plot is Murray's patented ironic view of all the action. Still a lot of fun, and an obvious model for sci-fi comedies such as Men in Black. --Tom Keogh

Ghostbusters [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Love the movie, but grainy
2009-12-10 - I would think technology had reached a point where cleaning up the graininess would have been a problem long passed, but apparently it isn't. The BR version is just as grainy as the DVD version. As a matter of fact, if you're looking to buy the blu ray version in hopes of it being better than the DVD version, don't waste your money. The DVD version is the same if not better than the blu ray version. It is sad, because this movie is one of my all time favorites. It is a classic, but very disappointed with the blu ray transfer.

Ghostbusters
2009-12-08 - This is an old but good movie that gets played over and over in my home of two children. When it came out in the 80s VCRs were the new fashionable devices to have and I had it back then on tape too. This movie must be bringing endless revenue to everyone in the movie becuase it never gets played out. A sure hit even after 25 years. Unlike the movies now that have too much violence.

a bill murray must have,
2009-12-01 - great movie. bill murray, dan ackroyd and harold ramis are matched perfectly in this movie.

The original has held up well over time
2009-11-14 - My daughter and I just did a GHOST BUSTERS double bill in honor of her upcoming move to New York, where she will be working at Columbia University, which is where Bill Murray and his paranomal colleague are studying at the beginning of the first film. We both really enjoyed the original and felt that it had more than held up over time, but we we were tremendously disappointed with the sequel. This is a joint review of both films. We watched the original film on Blu-ray and the second one on regular DVD. I won't say much more about the format except to say that the quality of the Blu-ray was somewhat disappointing. In fact, the quality of the DVD was very nearly as good as the Blu-ray.

Rewatching the first film, it was fascinating to see what a simple story it told, and how short it was. There really is very little to the film apart from the simple story and a string of scenes the become a framework for a series of jokes. The one thing that surprised me was that I don't find Bill Murray's jokes, many of which feel ad libbed, as funny as I did when I saw it when it first came out. This is balanced by Harold Ramis and Dan Ackroyd being funnier than I remembered. The special effects all look pretty good by today's standards, except for Slimer, who didn't much appeal to me when the film came out and still doesn't. But the highpoint of the movie, then as now, is the Stay-Puft marshmallow man, which is definitely one of the greatest movie monsters ever.

I saw the sequel when it came out, but over the years found it odd that I couldn't remember anything about it. I remembered that Sigourney Weaver's character had a baby, but that was the extent of it. Rewatching the film it is easy to see why I couldn't remember anything about it: it is simply not a very memorable film. The pace and the rhythm are erratic and many of the jokes are simply unfunny. The plot isn't very interesting and seems pretty formulaic, the formula being the first movie. It was, in fact, almost a remake of the original with some names changed and situations altered. Both my daughter and I were very unhappy with it and did not think it a very worthy sequel to the first film.

The original 1984 GHOSTBUSTERS still plays like a film that was the product of some imaginations in the grip of a real vision, while the sequel feels like a film made to cash in on the success of the former. It isn't like they weren't trying, they simply weren't inspired. GHOSTBUSTERS 2 just is not a worthy sequel of one of the more memorable light comedies of the eighties. Speaking for the two of us, we definitely enjoyed the first movie, but wish we had passed on the second one. I just hope that I remember the latter as poorly as I did the first time.

GHOSTBUSTERS
2009-11-12 - The product arrived exactly as they sated the product would be and in shorter time than projected.