Like my review of Footloose, this is a classic, everyone has seen it, everyone loves it. It's one of those movies that came from your childhood and lasts well into the adult manboy years.

So, we're going to do a comparison with the remake.

For starters..the Ghostbusters plays it straight. The comedy is presented like a drama and that is usually the absolute best way to do comedy...straight.

And conversely the remake is just sort of over the top. And when comedies try that hard to be comedies, they stop being funny.

Another part would be scene length. And again, playing it straight,... read the rest.