Ghostbusters rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence and terror, including horror images and some scary situations/peril, language, crude humor, brief suggestive content, and partial nudity

I vividly remember watching this film as a child and being frightened at times but overall enjoying this film.  I didn't understand the more subtle aspects of the film including the suggestive humor.

This film tells of three scientists Dr. Raymond Stantz (played by Dan Aykroyd), Dr. Peter Venkman (played by Bill Murray) and Dr. Egon Spengler (played by Harold Ramis)  who study the paranormal/occult at a NYC college and their adventures.  After getting kicked out of the college, they go into business as ghostbusters capturing ghosts around New York City.  They hire a bookish secretary named Janine Melnitz (played by Annie Potts).

After going into business the ghostbusters encounter two people Dana Barrett (played by Sigourney Weaver) and Louis Tully (played by Rick Moranis) who both live in an unusual high rise.  Dana seeks out the help of the ghostbusters after experiencing frightening things in her apartment.  Louis is Dana's nearby neighbor who gets caught up in the strange and scary occurrences.

Around the time that the three original ghostbusters meet Dana, they decide to hire a fourth person to help with the pick up in hours.  The fourth guy is named Winston Zeddmore (played by Ernie Hudson) .  The ghostbusters unintentionally run afoul of a man named Peck (played byWilliam Atherton) who works for the EPA which is the catalyst to the exciting final showdown between the ghostbusters and an ancient Sumerian god named Gozer (played by Slavitza Jovan).

I loved this film as a child and I love it more as an adult.  The story is well written.  The jokes are hilarious.  The characters are beloved with good reason.  The special effects aren't the greatest but they have stood the test of time fairly well.

This film is a little funnier when watched in a more censored format i.e. on cable tv networks.  I particularly enjoy and have enjoyed for years the efforts at cable networks to censor the scene where the ghostbusters are first meeting with the mayor and Venkman tells the mayor that Peck has no dick.  There were initial efforts at either dubbing different words which clearly didn't match the mouth movements of Venkman to not showing Venkman talking at all which makes it look like Peck attacks Venkman for no reason to finally adjusting the scene entirely to where it appears that Venkman says that Peck is "some kind of animal I don't know which" which is where the scene resumes its original structure/format.

Overall this film is a great family film.  I don't know why anyone thought that remaking this picture was a remotely good idea much less actually following through with it.