With the franchise enjoying new life with modern audiences, Screen Rant's Pitch Meeting series is looking back at Ghostbusters. The 1984 sci-fi comedy revolved around a group of parapsychologists who become superstars in New York City through their ghost-catching business, only to find themselves pitted against a world-ending threat. Led by Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, the latter of whom also wrote the movie together, Ghostbusters was a critical and commercial hit, becoming the second-highest-grossing movie of its release year and spawning a franchise of sequels, animated shows and a reboot.
Ahead of the franchise's next installment, the latest episode of Screen Rant's own Pitch Meeting series has set its sights on 1984's Ghostbusters. The video humorously mocks some of the problems of the comedy classic, namely its various plot holes and potentially outdated humor. The episode also pokes fun at the seemingly timeless nature of the original that failed to be recaptured with the 2016 female-led reboot.
