Parent reviews for Ghostbusters (2024)

Mman Parent of 2, 5 and 9-year-old

PG has always meant parental guidance suggested. What I loved about watching these movies as a kid is that I watched them with my parents who were very active in explaining things and didn't just leave me to watch it by myself. As I got older I started to pick up on the more adult themes which made me enjoy it even more. I just watched it with my 9-year-old nephew and all he really cared about was just how cool the uniforms look and all the interesting ghosts that he saw. Everything else went over his head like it did mine when I was a kid. I'll wait a few years until he's a teenager and have him watch it again with me to see if he notices anything that's mature. It's fun to discover things that you didn't really care about when you were younger using the same movie but watching it at different periods in your life.

This is a pretty good movie, but the scenes with sex are so inappropriate! With violence and scariness, I find it more creepy than violent. The librarian scene at the start can be a frightening scene and may scare some kids. Language is very bad, S**t was said countless times, and lots of other words that could be considered inappropriate. It's all based on the maturity of your kids. Do your homework before watching this movie. And make sure your kids are ready!!

This may have been funny in the 80’s but it is simply not appropriate for kids. There is a ton of language, sexual innuendos, womanizing, and 2 VERY inappropriate sex scenes.

We watched it with our 8 and 10 year olds for the Halloween weekend. Well, my husband and I were very surprised by too many sexually suggestive/explicit scenes and language. (For some reason we don’t recall seeing this much mature stuff when we watched it when we were little). Also a lot of strong lanugage… i do not think my kids have seen a movie with this much colorful language - everything was there except the F-word. This definitely is not PG in today’s standards.(Additional note- I get that this is a movie from the 80s and the culture and norm were different or whatever back then but Bill Murray’s character is just so off-putting. Making unwanted advances to women. What a creep. I felt so uncomfortable watching it play like his behavior is acceptable.)

I watched Ghostbusters when I was 8 the language didn’t stick with meand the sexual content went more than over my head.As long as your kid doesn’t literally imitate every action they ever see, this movie should be fine.I will say the Librarian ghost scared me But it only made me Jump, it wasn’t traumatizing or anything At that age, until around age 11 I wasn’t very familiar with curse words, so the language other than damn and hell went over my head.I didn’t understand the sexual content until middle-school, which, let’s be honest, is when your kid will start to be exposed to that type of humor anyway. And I can’t say I was ever aroused as a kid or teen by Dan Akroyd experiencing oral sex from a ghost. But I have always found it funny, even before I knew why, the face he makes is just funny. I will say, If you are a strict conservative, and or Christian *not an insult*, or even if you’re just very touchy about language and all sexual content, I’d recommend giving it a screening first.But, If you’re cool with letting your kid watch PG-13 movies of the modern day, this is completely fine.

gibso Parent of 11 and 15-year-old

I first saw this film about a year after it was released on video (as was customary at the time) and like so many people in the 1980s I LOVED it! I thought it was funny, with a little suspense but not too scary, except for the library lady and Weaver's chair. As for the rest I was charmed like so many others and found the film to go down easy. I just saw this film with my 8 year old (as they kept requesting to see it with the advertisem*nts of Frozen Empire dominating the previews). We finally relented and I delighted in seeing my child laugh as I once did to Murray's smart aleck retorts, Ackroyd's physical silliness, Ramis' misplaced intellectualness, Moranis' bumbling around, Weaver's deadpan responses, and Hudson's every person's interactions with the Mr. Stay Puft. My kid kept saying how they were not scared and shared how much they enjoyed it, but it was the next day that the effect of the film shone through. Repeating Murray's lines back at us and giggling all morning that reminded me of how much fun this film is.

cole S. Parent of 10-year-old

loved it great for kids

Katherine R. Parent of 8, 10, 14, 18+, 18+ and 5-year-old

This is the perfect family movie, funny and action, not scary at all. When my son was 6 year old he loved the marshmallow man. And slimmer.