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Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

2018

Ari Sandel

Madison Iseman, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Chris Parnell ...

4.5

2,000

Fantasy. Comedy. Adventure. Horror Two young friends find a magic book that brings a ventriloquist's dummy to life.

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"The story, what there is of it, is innocuous (...) It’s a piñata of effects posing as a movie. By the end, there’s nothing to do but sweep up the pieces."	NEG
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"This installment pales in comparison to its enjoyable predecessor (...) Sandel stages the outlandish, creepy mayhem with flair, and the creature designs are frequently imaginative and visually striking"	NEU
United States	Dana Schwartz Entertainment Weekly	"[The third act] finally delivers the antics and fun the movie promises, but that comes after a hefty amount of dull filler"	NEU
United States	Witney Seibold IGN	"There is a lot to admire about 'Goosebumps 2' (...) But overall, 'Goosebumps 2's actual personality feels slight. Its tone is jaunty, but it's rarely laugh-out-loud funny."	NEU
United States	Nell Minow rogerebert.com	"The special effects are still top-notch and it is a pleasant little scare-fest for the Halloween season (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Teo Bugbee The New York Times	"The production design displays a genuine enthusiasm for the decorative kitsch of the Halloween season, and the flashes of giddy craftiness beneath the slick style almost compensate for the toothlessness of the horror."	NEU
United States	Kate Erbland IndieWire	"It will likely breed years of nightmares for its young audience, while disappointing older moviegoers"	NEU
United States	Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"What elevates 'Haunted Halloween' from lesser All Hallows’ fare aimed at the tween set (...) is the smart scriptwork from Rob Lieber (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"[Sandel's] direction of the monsters and mayhem is never more than workmanlike (...) 'Haunted Halloween' seems to be aimed at audiences who don’t want to be engaged."	NEG
United States	William Bibbiani The Wrap	"The script is more contrived than ever, the characters are largely underwritten, and the monsters look cheap and get very little to do."	NEG
United States	John Squires Bloody Disgusting	"[it] is just plain undercooked (...) The second film in a franchise with so much existing material to pull from should simply never be this dull (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Peter Hartlaub Houston Chronicle	"[A] completely satisfactory family entertainment (...) The story is fine but predictable (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Canada	Sandy Schaefer Screen Rant	"'Goosebumps 2' lacks the charm and inventiveness of its predecessor, but still has a reasonable amount of spoopy entertainment value to offer (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU

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