Goosebumps Review

Goosebumps Review

Starring Jack Black as R.L.Stine, Dylan Minnetta as Zach, Odeya Rush as Hannah and Ryan Lee as Champ. Zach moves with his mother to Madison, Delaware from New York, with their next-door neighours being R.L.Stines and Hannah, his daughter; with Zach nicknaming Stines as "Mr. Shivers". At Zach first day of school, he notices that Hannah isn't there and makes a new best friend, named Champ.

When Zach got home, Zach had a talk with Hannah, while putting out the trash, with Hannah showing Zach an old abandoned fun fair in the woods. When Zach got home, he heard noises and shadows of R.L.Stine and Hannah having an argument - calling the police, who are extremely stupid and dumb, the police officers find nothing - not even Hannah. Later when R.L.Stine is called out of the house, Zach breaks into Stines' house with Champ to save Hannah. When Champ and Zach find Hannah, they also find a shelf full of old Goosebumps books. Which magically release the story's monster from the book into real life; the monster being "The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena". After re-trapping the snowman back into the book, they discover another book has been opened - "Night of the Living Dummy" - with a living ventriloquist dummy, named Slappy, stealing all of the other books, and releases them into real world. It fight against all of R.L.Stine's monster to re-trapping them all into the books. But in doing so, Hannah reveals a secret about her.

I through the film, though for a younger audience, was quiet funny, having some cheap jump-scares in that had me jumping. As always Jack Black (R.L.Stine) was made the film for me, adding to his large collect of great film. For Odeya Rush (Hannah), I through she was extremely good young actress, appearing in only minor films before. Dylan Minnette (Zach) being in only minor films and TV series, including "R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour", was pretty good sometimes being funniest enough for the young viewers. Ryan Lee (Champ) being in some film in the past, the greatest being "Super 8", he was comically funny, being the small voice in the bad of your head laughing at the childish, yet funny slap-stick and comic jokes. R.L. Stines even appeared in the final minutes of the film, for a brief cameo, with Jack Black saying "Here is our new drama teacher, Mr. Black", with Stine replying "Good evening, Mr. Stine."

For an overall pretty good film, with laughs and thrills - I give Goosebumps a solid 7.5/10.
Final thought; "Childish nightmares are certain."



Monsters Released:

Abominable Snowman of Pasadena

Night of the Living Dummy (Slappy)

The Haunted Car

Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes

The Invisible Boy

Fifi the Vampire Poodle

The Body Squeezers

The Giant Praying Mantis

The Werewolf of Fever Swamp

Murder the Clown

The Bog Monster

The Scarecrows

The Creeps

The Mummy of Prince Kho-Ru

Naila Rahmad

Count Nightwing

The Bug-Eyed Aliens

Madame Doom

Captain Long Ben One-Leg

The Pumpkinhead

The Lord High Executioner

Professor Shock

The Bees

The Annihilator 3000

The Blob

The Ghost Next Door (Hannah)