Ghostbusters

Rubies Men's Ghostbusters Costume With Inflatable Backpack, Tan, Adult Standard
$43.99
My costume was a hit!!! Can't go wrong--and will most likely be the most original person there!!

Ghostbusters: Minimates Series 2 Box Set
$19.99
Set out those ghost traps! Box set of four paranormal Minimates based on the Ghostbusters movie. Dr. Ray Stantz, Gozer, the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, and Winston Zeddemore. Cool film-themed accessories. Capture these for your own ghost-busting adventures! Set out those ghost traps! The second Ghostbusters Minimates release, this all-star box set features the rest of the Ghostbusters team from the cult-classic Ghostbusters movie, plus two of the most dangerous paranormal beings you'll ever meet. Complete with removable proton packs, neutrino wands, and ghost traps, this highly entertaining set of 2 to 2 1/2-inch tall figures includes Dr. Ray Stantz, the all-powerful Gozer, the infamous Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, and Winston Zeddemore. Capture them for your own ghost-busting adventures!

The Real Ghostbusters: Complete Collection
$179.98
I grew up watching RGB every Saturday morning. I loved the series. For a cartoon, it is actually fairly intelligent. All episodes are as they were on TV - introduced with the great familiar theme song and episode titles, ending with the credits and song. I loved the included extras like commentary from the episode creators as to what spurred the ideas for each episode. These were always very entertaining and I remember some of them really gave me the creeps when I was younger - The Boogeyman, The Sandman, When Halloween Was Forever, Mrs. Rogers Neighborhood, etc.

The firehouse box is awesome!!! I love seeing Janine chewing her bubble gum on the lower floor while Slimer is upstairs seeking food as usual lol The box includes a nice color episode booklet that tells you a brief synopsis of the episode, title, and which disk it is on.

I was really impressed with the quality of the DVD cases inside the box - the exteriors are actually made out of METAL...almost unheard of these days. I wish all DVD sets came like that. This set will keep for a long time.

You will not be disappointed with this set if you are an RGB fan. I waited 20 years for this set to come out!! SO HAPPY! :) Just BUY IT - you will not regret it. FANTASTIC SET!

Ghostbusters Double Feature Gift Set (Ghostbusters/ Ghostbusters 2 and Commemorative Book)
$19.94
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.