Goosebumps (Blu-ray + DVD)

I am so glad to finally get to see Goosebumps free. It was 2 years ago that I came across the werewolf in grocery store scene on YouTube.Everybody's acting was so great and engaging. My favorite character is Champ.Every scene was short and fast. All the scenes with so many funny, cunning, spooky, emotional, and high energy and action were played out superbly. I love plot twists and this story was full of them.Terrific CGI in every way.I think the puppet and the praying mantis are super scary. #nightmareI thoroughly enjoyed the movie and plan to watch it with my son.

"Stephen King is no slouch," commented a member of the Movie Fan Facebook Page staff. The man has published 60 books, which have sold over 350 million copies. "Wait a minute," you say."Why start a review of a movie based on R.L. Stine's books by talking about Stephen King?" Fair question. Well, Stine has been called "the Stephen King of children's literature." Beyond that, you may be surprised to learn that Stine has bested the famously prolific King by publishing hundreds of books, which have sold over 400 million copies! Think about that. It's enough to... give you goose bumps. That, of course, is the name of Stine's most popular series of books, brought to the big screen in the film "Goosebumps" (PG, 1:43).Fans of the series may wonder which of the books is the basis for the movie. The answer is none of them - and all of them. Rather than adapting any one of Stine's books, which are, admittedly, relatively short (as Stephen King exclaims, "Ah-HAH! See?"), this film imagines a world in which Stine's monsters come to life and terrorize a small town, while R.L. Stein himself, along with a few local teenagers, attempt to recapture the creatures and save the town. I won't spoil the movie, except to say that, in the end, we Movie Fans get a film that is as exciting and delightful as any of the books that inspired this story.The film has Jack Black portraying Stine as an unfriendly recluse in the tiny (fictional) town of Madison, Delaware. Showing Stine as a movie character which we get to know as a man, but is only a fictionalized version of the real person recalls movies like Charlie Kaufman's 1999 fantasy comedy-drama "Being John Malkovich" or Matthew LeBlanc (starting in 2011) playing himself as an adorable jerk in the Showtime comedy series "Episodes". Black's Stine calls himself Mr. Shivers. He's a widower who lives in a big house with his kind, but mischievous 16-year-old daughter, Hannah (Odeya Rush), whom he homeschools.Moving in right next door is Madison High School's new assistant principal, recently widowed Gale Cooper (Amy Ryan), and her teenage son, Zach (Dylan Minnette), still grieving the loss of his father. Gale's sweetly clueless sister, Loraine (Jillian Bell) greets them with open arms, but Zach and Gale simply have a lot of adjusting to do - and new people to meet. Gale is almost immediately hit on by shy fellow educator, Coach Carr (Ken Marino), while an awkward nerd ironically named Champ (Ryan Lee) traps the new guy into a friendship. It's a good thing for Zach that Hannah is such a pleasure to be around.One night when Zach looks towards his new neighbor's house and thinks he sees Mr. Shivers abusing Hannah, he calls Champ and they steal into the house. Zach and Champ see that Hannah's okay, but not before they find a key and open a locked "Goosebumps" manuscript among many on a shelf in Mr. Shivers' study. The book is "The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena" and unlocking the manuscript allows a large, furry creature to literally jump off the page. The three teens run after him, Hannah telling them that the monster can only be re-captured by sucking him back into the book from whence he came. The Abominable Snowman wreaks havoc on the town until Mr. Shivers shows up to save the day.In the destruction that the creature caused in the study, all the manuscripts fell to the floor and one of them popped open - one releasing the evil Slappy the Dummy. Slappy unleashes complete mayhem in Madison - on the night of a big high school dance nonetheless. The police (a hilarious Timothy Simons and Amanda Lund) are no help, but few people would be. That ventriloquist dummy serves as the ringleader of a gang of dangerous and destructive creations including a wolfman, a maniacal clown, a herd of garden gnomes and a gargantuan praying mantis. They all want revenge on their creator for keeping them locked up so long. And Stein is the only one who even has a chance of stopping them.When Stine's creations come to life, besides clear memories of Robin Williams' 1995 hit "Jumanji", this situation reminds us of Emma Thompson's author writing Will Ferrell's character into existence in 2006's "Stranger Than Fiction", or the underseen 1979 thriller "Time After Time" in which the character of H.G. Wells (author of the sci-fi classic "The Time Machine") uses profits from his writing to build a working time machine which one of his friends uses to escape the police and continue a killing spree when it is discovered that he's Jack the Ripper. "Goosebumps" deserves a place among these other great films.This film's story may not be completely original, but it feels fresh and it is fantastically well executed. All of the actors are perfectly cast (even Jack Black, who, in our opinion, seems to have had more misses than hits in his career). With the help of a story by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, a script by Darren Lemke and the direction of Rob Letterman, this cast and this story hit the perfect balance between frightening and fun - just like the "Goosebumps" books themselves. The script is very funny and the dialog and character interactions are charming from the very beginning to the very end of the movie. The interesting characters, the story's danger and adventure, along with the excitement and humor all seamlessly contribute to a simply wonderful family film that will appeal to kids of all ages, even if they don't know their goose bumps from their speed bumps or their Kings from their Stines.

Enjoyable family movie night with this one

Kids loved it!

A college kid putting on a bedazzled baseball cap is dumb. Farting in public is not just dumb it is disgusting! Talking to your neighbor's daughter after you've been told not to, very dumb. Police officers in that small Madison town in Delaware are 110% dumb, like they haven't been through any police academy training. Try to ride the Zamboni when you are being chased by yeti, not very smart. After releasing an abominable snowman from the book by accident, knocking him down and not running away, just sitting there watching the stars, absolutely dumb. Police officers sitting down on the job while everything is in chaos outside, unacceptable. What, is the government not paying you good money to take care of it's citizens? Telling Slappy to shut up is ultra stupid. Now chaos everywhere you come into an empty grocery store, suddenly you are thirsty, no security no clerks anywhere you want to rip them off something, well then please feel free and take your time to pick your favorite junk food. Telling your possible future lady friend that you didn't brush your teeth some years back, genius. Well eventually one way or another she may find out, still genius Albert. Have you ever tried kissing a ghost? Who are you man? I am Patrick Swayze. When Jack Black tells you to write a nice, suspenseful story with twists, you insist on writing 'bad guys lost, the end' not much of a Stephen King. Lame indeed. Ending is dumb, no matter what you see, it is still evil. No time machine that you can use to go back and change the ending. Well, alright I will continue to watch your stupidity like a black comedy over and over. It means I enjoy watching you doing stupid things like nothing's wrong, cool.

I enjoyed this one, a fun, fast blast of chaos and lunacy that flies by in a blur of action and gags.Based on the insanely well selling books by RL Stine, the plot twists things a little. The set up is pretty standard - a young lad and his single mother rock up in a new town and meet their new, mysterious next door neighbours who happen to be RL Stine himself (played with typical gusto by Jack Black) and his daughter. Then all hell literally breaks loose as Stines literary creations come to life (!?).The Abominable Snowman, a werewolf, a freaky ventriloquists dummy, murderous gnomes and much more are on the menu as a load of old school horror tropes are chucked in the blender to create something original and imaginative. Like a young adult version of The Cabin in the Woods (kind of).And it's funny. Sometimes it perhaps tries a little too hard with almost every character speaking in punchlines but for the most part it keeps the chuckles flowing amidst the odd big laugh. The cast are all game for it with Ryan Lee as "Champ" nicking many of the best lines and stealing scenes with them. There's a little dash of romance and the occasional life lesson (of course) and it all adds up to an entertaining slice of absurdity.

Love this film and in 3D it is even better. It helped when i saw how cheap it was on amazon.I had heard of Goosebumps before but had never seen any on tv or read the books so when i saw this film i was amazed how good it was.Now it's one of my fave films.The special effects are great and so are the actors.Just a pure entertaining film.One of Jack Black's better films.Great for all the family to watch.

One of the best films I've seen. Been following Goosebumps for about 9-10 years. Was refusing to watch it at first because didn't think it would be the same and didn't agree with the casting of older teens. I was so wrong. It's very very funny, energetic and surprising as well as keeping the same mild childrens horror of the Goosebumps Series. It wouldn't have worked with younger teenagers as the 3 kids. I feel they could have referenced the first ever book though by adding one or more of: Ray Thurston, Mr Dawes, Karen Somerset and the Dead House.

great film well acted the film about the author of the goosebumps played by jack black a boy called zach copper moves into a small town and there he meets a girl called hannah who is the daughter of r.l. stine her father tells to stay away from her he and his new pal champ break into his house to find hannah and open one of his manuscripts and the monster in the manuscripts gets out.into the real world when zach hannah champ find the monster they cant get monster back into the manuscript.back at house a dummy gets out and he wants to stay in the real world so he opens all the manuscripts to let all the monsters out to and its up to zach hannah champ and r .l.stine to get all the monsters back into the manuscripts where belong

I loved this film, I watched it at the cinema first so obviously when it was released on DVD I bought it. A brilliant sci-fi thrilling action packed adventure of a film starring the brilliant Jack Black and many other faces. This film is based on some of the characters written from the goosebumps series of books. They are cleverly joined into this very special little adventure of a film! Just buy it! @:0)