The director and surviving stars revisit the groundbreaking supernatural
comedy in an enjoyably geeky documentary
If you’re a Ghostbusters superfan – and, for heaven’s sake, who isn’t? – then this amiably celebratory documentary about the original film is going to be pretty watchable, although it could have been cut down to 20 minutes as a featurette to go on the DVD/Blu-ray edition.
There’s decent stuff here. The film enjoyably geeks out on the technical challenges involved in creating the ghosts, and there are nice interviews with director Ivan Reitman, veteran comedy producer Joe Medjuck and stars Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis (recorded before his death in 2014), Sigourney Weaver and Ernie Hudson. Unfortunately, no Bill Murray though. And another thing we don’t get is Ray Parker Jr’s legendary theme tune, presumably for copyright reasons.