Goosebumps - The Werewolf of Fever Swamp

Rating:
Summary: 4 and a quarter stars
Review: A good movie. Better acting than the norm for Goosebumps and the plotline is a bit thicker than usual. Although the actors continue to be scared of the tiniest things - as in, exaggeration - it's good creepy fun. Decent SFX for this type of movie. The Wolf-in-the-house-chase with Emily is terribly executed, effects wise. Otherwise good work.

Rating:
Summary: Bad dvd quality, pretty good movie.
Review: First off, there could be alot more dvd's to chose from! The DVD quality is choppy, and not as good as the VHs quality. There is no menu, Special features, surround sound, it needs a re-release already! All there is, is the movie! I found it in the wal-mart 5.50 bin, and I know why it's in there! I am a Goosebumps freak,(Be glad i'm not bragging that i'm the biggest fan) so I had to collect these!

Rating:
Summary: 4 and a quarter stars
Review: I just happend to see this one again recently, and instead of just attacking everything, I decided to go back and tell you exactly what I thought was wrong. First of all, I'm not a reader of Stein material, but I've been told that this is not a fair assesment of his work (and I hope not). Aside from bad acting and makeup (this was made for television, so that's expected. When I look at a made for young people program, I expect some sort of morality tale, which seems oposite of this story line. Complaints:
1: The main charactor is a whiner
2: If the Dad is doing a field study of undgulates, why are they doing it in a swamp, and not a forrest?
3: The buddy seems to be the most likeable charactor.
4: If the werewolf is a kid, then how does it transform into an adult werewolf, and if it suposedly killed it's parents, how did the kid survive out in the middle of nowhere for so long?
5: The werewolf, in human form, seems to do everything he can to warn the kid (main charactor) away, but the main charactor seems to be so dumb and whiny, you almost want the main charactor to be eaten.
6: The crazy old man seems to be a throw-in...if you knew him from th opening, he would have made a more sympethetic charactor, and a real vehicle for the build up.
7: ending...as I stated before, the werewolf does everything up until the end...even warning him away in half werewolf form, and seemingly hesitating to bite or scratch...then when the dog comes to the rescue, and the werewolf falls over the ledge and into the bog, all our "brave" main charactor does is hide behind a rock and watch his friend (even though a werewolf) struglle until he is sucked under the surface of the bog. With friends like that, who needs enemies.
8:Even though the dog (did I mention the dog seems to be the best actor in the whole show?)did all the work, our "hero" suddenly thinks he's a big-bad werewolf slayer.

To sum it up...everything is rather backwards. If the "hero" was more likable, the plot better written, the charactors better developed (in that frame of thought, how about developed at all), this could have been a really fun kid's tale. If you want a better version of this story, try reading the novel "Thor" (probably from where this story was originally "lifted"), or try the movie, "Bad Moon" (Parents; ff through the first ten minuits of "Bad Moon" and the rest, though scary, should be acceptable for kids 10-older). It has a better story (though increadbly simmilar), better acting, better charactors and story developement, one of the better werewolf makup jobs done up until "VanHelsing", and overall, a more moralistic tale of a boy and his dog versus a reluctant Werewolf. You'll actually root for the main charactors in that movie.

Rating:
Summary: Cheesy but good.
Review: I liked this. I used to read Goose bumps with my sister who read all the books. I have looked at them. R.L Stein is a nice guy. But the series is sort of cheesy.

Rating:
Summary: Great Movie
Review: This movie is great. The werewolf is scary when the sister first sees it in the living room. The effects are alright for this kind of a movie. The acting is good and the plot is great. It's a great movie!

Rating:
Summary: The werewolf that was terrifying
Review: This video tape i saw at school. In Ms.Ahern's room. It was creepy. There was this family,and this boy named Grady and this girl named Emily. They were afraid of their new town,or bored.
Then,Grady meets Will,and Will tells him legends of the werewolves. And,about the town. Grady gets murdered by a werewolf,and he finds out that Will is a werewolf.
He gets a fever,then he's a werewolf,too. This video was all right. I could live with it.