Goosebumps (2024)

Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Excellent, a Must See

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

I remember goosebumps when i was a kid and it was a show that I wasn't allowed to watch as a kid, parents rules and all... but of coarse there were ways around that. Any way i watched the show and I loved and was terrified of it, the remake was a huge disappointment. Jack black pulls off one of the worst performances, just the same head shaking and eye brow rising gestures with a stone face, and wheezy, cheesy jokes being spit from his fat mouth just like every movie hes ever been in. Some movies this kinda fits but not this one.

I have to say that being British born and bred I'm not at all familiar with Goosebumps, either the books or TV series etc, so I was going into this film blind as it were. With that in mind I'm not really able to review to fans of the original works.I went in with the hope of a good time, I liked the sound of the concept, I like Jack Black and I knew it was going to be well produced and no doubt heavily laden with the latest technological effects (ironically I had watched the splendid Jason and the Argonauts prior to Goosebumps, from one extreme to another or what?!).I got everything I expected and had fun without any frame of reference. If I wanted any more I could dig out some questions that would need to be answered, but why bother. I left at the end, as a middle aged film lover, contented. I would for sure keenly watch any sequel if it surfaces.Didn't do much for my Automatonophobia though... 6.5/10

Considering I read all the goosebumps books and watched the TV series as a child I must admit I wasn't excited about seeing the movie at all. Most jack black movies make me cringe so just seeing his name in the titles is enough to put me off. However flicking through TV the other day my 12 year old piped up "let's give it a go" and to be honest I'm quite glad that we did. The start is a little slow, possibly because the main lads acting is slightly flat, but I do believe it's one of his first movies so I'll cut him some slack. I was interested to see how they would en corporate the books into a movie, I didn't for a moment think that the monsters would emerge from the books! Such a brilliant idea! Jack black played the role of the author very well, it's one of the few movies he's done that I would watch again. He was funny but not his usual over acting, I need to be funny self.The monsters are great, I've seen a lot of reviews complain it wasn't scary, to be fair there wasn't many scary moments for an adult - but I am a horror fan so I'm used to pretty wild movies. However my 12 year old said towards the end "I've actually got goosebumps" so I think people need to remember this is a PG rated movie, it's not going to give the average adult nightmares.The only disappointing detail was the story with Hannah. I thought it beautiful that he created a nice character as a friend and it brought a tear to my daughters eye that she too had to disappear into the final book. However the notion of the movie being left open for a sequel made her story no longer make sense. If he was able to leave invisible boy out when the monsters all got trapped why not leave Hannah out too? Especially as he went to the trouble of writing her, her own book to release her again?Other then that one part we quite enjoyed this movie and would recommend any 90's child to see it for the nostalgia effect at least. But please do remember that like me you probably read the book when you were a child, so put you "child hat" back on and stop expecting a major horror flick.

My review probably differs from the majority, that I am pretty sure of. So, to flat out come out with it, this movie sucked a*s. I hated it. I used to read Goosebumps as a youngster. It had all the original characters from R.L. Stines books (Slappy, Abominable Snowman of Pasadena, etc.). Although, I just wasn't feeling it. I thought the TV series Goosebumps was WAY better than this. Trying to cram children's book characters into one film's story-line just didn't work, at least not for this one in my aspect. This particular Goosebumps tells the story of a boy that moved to a new town, next to the author R.L. Stine, who apparently is trying to keep his name under wraps. He seems to be harboring all of his story book monsters in separate books he has stored in his home. He's a completely ugly hermit do to this. He has a daughter who starts getting a twinkle for the next door neighbor boy, and they sneak off together. Well, one day the boy thinks R.L. Stine is abusing his daughter, so he runs over to the next door house and sneaks in. Eventually he finds these books, knocks them off the shelf, they open, and lone and behold the Goosebumps gang of monsters begins to spill out. Well, I think they crammed way too much stuff into it, and I think all of the character's roles were rushed. I just didn't feel the Goosebumps originality from this film. It might be because I'm trying to compare it too much with the knowledge I have of Goosebumps from when I was a child. Anyway, this movie isn't so terrible. I may have been a little harsh on the rating, but that's where I stand with this one. Mainstream will think differently.