
After moving to a new small town, teenage Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) meets the beautiful girl next door, Hannah (Odeya Rush). But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach's comes when he learns that Hannah has a mysterious dad who is revealed to be R. L. Stine (Jack Black), the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. It turns out that there is a reason why Stine is so strange - he is a prisoner of his own imagination - the monsters that his books made famous are real,... (Full plot summary below)
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After moving to a new small town, teenage Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) meets the beautiful girl next door, Hannah (Odeya Rush). But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach's comes when he learns that Hannah has a mysterious dad who is revealed to be R. L. Stine (Jack Black), the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. It turns out that there is a reason why Stine is so strange - he is a prisoner of his own imagination - the monsters that his books made famous are real, and Stine protects his readers by keeping them locked up in their books. Zach unintentionally unleashes the monsters from their manuscripts and they begin to terrorize the town. It's up to Stine, Zach, Hannah, and Zach's friend Champ (Ryan Lee) to put all the monsters back in their books.
Leave your thoughts about Goosebumps.
| Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlEspecially in its superior first hour, Goosebumps has a loose comic rhythm at odds with what we see in effects-heavy would-be blockbuster junk like Pan. |
| Tri-City HeraldGary WolcottThe most fun I've had in a theater this year. |
| HitFixDrew McWeenyThere's not an ounce of fat on the film. It feels like it moves forward in every single scene, and while it's a little mechanical about how it follows three-act structure, it's almost charmingly old-fashioned about it. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfA mixed bag when it comes to technical achievements and storytelling, but it does offer the most enthusiastic cast of 2015. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertA tongue-in-cheek love note to spook stories of yesteryear, "Goosebumps" is a kid-friendly crowd pleaser adults can love, too. |
| AV ClubA.A. DowdThough it revives at least a dozen of Stine’s most popular beasts and fiends, the new Goosebumps movie rarely recalls the old preteen page-turners for which it’s named. |
| The PlaylistNick SchagerA film that assembles many of the author’s most memorable creations with noisy, tossed-off sloppiness. |
| Consequence of SoundMichael RoffmanIt's cute, it's funny, it's exciting, and it'll remind you why you ever spent hours of your childhood dreaming about what might dwell in the basement or beneath the sink. |
| Daily Mail (UK)Brian VinerIt's great fun, combining live action with top-notch computer animation, and I enjoyed it enormously. |
| Cinemalogue.comTodd Jorgenson... emphasizes constant mayhem and widespread destruction in a frenetic effort to promote an amusement-park mentality. |