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Summary: Haunted mansion review
Review: This film was actually good. This is the third film based on a Disney ride. Eddie murphy is pretty humorous. If you have been on the ride, or saw Harry Potter, this movie should not be an issue to watch. Jim Evers (Eddie Murphy) is a real estate agent who promises his kids a vacation because he works all the time. However, his wife, Sarah gets a call on an old mansion and Evers thinks it would be a real good deal. They travel to the place, only to find themselves trapped in a flood - and a mansion full of ghosts. Along the way, they find clues of a 100 year old mystery of a couple who wanted to get married - and the dark mystery surrounding it. Along the way, they have several adventures, including a mozzulieum, a group of signing ghosts, and a spin around on a haunted table.
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Summary: A Fun Ride, as it's supposed to be!
Review: Okay, for those of you who are reading these reviews because you haven't seen the movie and aren't sure whether or not it's worth buying, let me give you some advice. Before reading each review, look first to see if the title of that swashbuckling blockbuster with Johnny Depp pops up. If it does, SKIP THE REVIEW! It's so frustrating to see people taking two completely different movies, with different budgets and directors, and trying to say the smaller one sucks only because the bigger one was so good. That's like shooting down Freddy Vs. Jason because Lord of the Rings is so huge. Hey, they were both made by New Line Cinema, right?
You'll even see some whining about a tarot card with a picture of naked people. Anyone who's offended by this should never take their kids to an art museum. It's classic artwork people! It's not like they cut out a photo from Penthouse and stuck it on there! Geesh!
With that out of my system, I'll discuss the movie. It was really good. I only gave it four stars because it could have been better, but this doesn't mean it's not thoroughly enjoyable. I'm well adjusted to horror movies and I even jumped a few times. Once it gets going, it doesn't slow down much to get into the plot very deep, but isn't that how a ride is supposed to be? And yes, there is a good plot and everything is explained. The reason some people don't get it is because they're not doing something which is becoming quite common with audiences nowadays: Paying Attention.Without a doubt, I recommend this to younger viewers. If your kids can't handle this, then you should keep them away from other movies just as scary such as Harry Potter, Casper, or The Addams Family. Seriously, if you can take your kid on the ride, your kid can watch this. In fact, the movie even teaches kids a valuable lesson about facing your fears.
The atmosphere here is fantastic. When the family becomes stranded at the house, you really feel it, and just when the suspense and creepiness of the whole scenario starts to settle in, that's when the action hits without ever letting go until the spectacular ending where all hell literally breaks loose!
So watch this movie and remember to judge it for the movie it's supposed to be. If every movie was a huge blockbuster, there would be no such thing as a B-movie and our shelves would look rather empty.
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Summary: Could this be as good as the Ride?
Review: I didn't like this film as much as I liked the Ride at Disney. I thought that this movie messed up the entire concept of The Haunted Mansion. This Movie in my oppinion was only made because Pirates of the Caribbean was a hit film and people wanted their eyes on The Haunted Mansion. This movie was funny, but still, it was very stupid in the way that it was made. I wish they would have made more out of this movie, like making it more like the ride. I went to disneyland and the first thing I did was go on the haunted mansion ride. This movie makes me never want to ride that ride ever again.
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Summary: GRIM GRINNING GHOSTS COME OUT TO SOCIALIZE
Review: Actually this movie is pretty good-I read in my movie book The Haunted Mansion-Magic Kingdom To The Movies that the mansion was not supposed to be like the ride-just some of it was! The hitchhiking ghosts were a nice touch-dont pick up any hitchhiking ghosts! If this movie does not scare you-then you should go to the offical site and click on the part that says-visit the mansion-that is pretty freaky! WE HAVE 999 HAPPY HAUNTS HERE BUT THERES ROOM FOR A THOUSAND ANY VOLUNTEERS? THERES NO TURNING BACK NOW!
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Summary: Horrible...Drawn out and boring with 3 year old humor.
Review: Do not see this movie...After being pleasantly surprised by Pirates of the Caribbean, we were actually looking forward to this movie...big mistake. It could have been so much better if they would have put some of the PG-13 that went into the PotC movie into this one. Went for something cool got a lame/cutesy Casper movie...
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Summary: HM follows in the footsteps of POTC......NOT!!!!
Review: I was extremely surprised when seeing Pirates,I had so much and I just couldn't wait for the Haunted Mansion,after all it had Eddie Murphy and a lot of ghouls from the original attraction.What could go wrong?
Well we all know the answer to that one,it amounts to nothing...
I've never seen Mr murphy playing such a bad role and don't tell me he's a bad actor,the guy is brilliant but it's pretty obvious that the script wasn't.It feels like a kids movie,but even kids won't like this and are used to more funny things then this.
Yes they wanted to keep the fun aspect of the ride....well...where is it?The jokes and punchlines are 3rd rate to non existant.
And what about the ghouls you ask?well that is still the question that is on my mind as well.Oh sure the hitchhiking ghosts are in it,for a split second and I can't blame Rick Baker for making great zombies but how scary do they become with such a bad screenplay,the answer is simple...nowhere.
This is one hell of a missed opportunity,the ingredients for a movie like this are so rich and wonderfull and yet they concoct such an abomination.I've seen Tower of terror(the movie) and even that one has a nicer story element in it.
Sorry guys,go back to the drawing board and ask Roy for some advice...
Greetings Gert
Ghent,Belgium
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Summary: Expecting More But Not Less!
Review: I think I was looking forward to this movie, be it's Eddie Murpehy and because I've been seeing the ads for a very long time. The movie exceeds more in the makeup, sets, and costumes department, and decreases in the story department. The movie stars Eddie Murphey, Terence Stamp, Marsha Thompson, and Wallace Shawn, and not all of those characters are among the living. It was a good movie, but I feel that the story could have been much better. The story is about Jim and Sara Evers, who both are realtors, but Jim focuses hard on work. This is proven when Jim has a couple of drinks with some clients on him and his wifes anniversary. He would also sometimes rather work than spend time with his two kids Megan and Michael. He decides to go away with them over one weekand but Sara gets a call to come to work, and Jim forces them to go stop by on the way to their vaction spot because the house is in a rich location. They go there and find an immense mansion. They meet the head butler Ramsley, the others staff Ezra and Emma, and the master of the house Master Gracey. After heavy rains flood the roads, the family decides to spend the night in the mansion. When Master Gracey requests to talk to Sara, she finds out the story of his tragic past, including the death to his dear love Elizbeth, who looks alot like Sara. Jim and the kids get lost around the mansion, and Jim meets Madame Leota, a fortune teller who is just a head inside of a crystal ball. As ghosts and monsters begin to come as the night, Jim and his kids try to help Sara from being the answer to a longtime curse that has been inside of the haunted mansion. "The Haunted Mansion," is a horror movie for children, a genre that should have much more in the works. It's a horror movie without gore, and because of Eddie Murphey generates quite a bit of comedy. Alot of people think that Eddie Murphey is slacking off as his career gets old, but I thought that his past three movies were very good, and this one just adds to his list of good movies. I don't see how the critics thought that this was a terrible movie. It wasn't awful, but it did have it's problems with it's story. I could see Disney making a sequal to this movie though. It was better than Disney's other ride movie "The Country Bears," but it wasn't as good as "Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl." Worth a check out in the theatres. ENJOY! Rated PG for frightening images, thematic elements and language.
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Summary: funny
Review: I went with my ex friend Melinda and we both thought it was a really cool movie. I had seen it before and liked it but it's even better the second time around and i'm eagerly awaiting my third time seing this very fun movie. Note to parents there is a suicide in the beginning that will freak kids 10 and under out and there are other scary scenes thanks to the sound effects.
Rating: 
Summary: Just Okay
Review: Disney has been making movies about their rides at their theme parks for a while now. Their first one, the Country Bears, was awful and was a complete waste of time and money. After the Country Bears, I wasn't expecting much from their second movie based on a ride, but Pirates of the Carribean was amazing. Then this movie... The Haunted Mansion came next. After Pirates of the Caribbean, I was really expecting a lot, but my hopes weren't completely filled.
The Haunted Mansion starred Eddie Murphy, which was the downfall of the whole movie. Without him, the movie would have been much better. All of his stupid jokes made the movie lose so much.
The story of the movie is slightly different from the backstory of the ride. On the ride, Master Gracey is the narrator. He was a crazy guy who for no apparent reason besides from being a ghost, hung himself. So after that he started haunting his mansion, allowing 1000 happy haunts to share the mansion with him. Everyone else in the mansion eventually died. The maids and butlers hang around and haunt the house, letting living guests in. Master Graceys bride (in the attic scene in the ride) commited suicide since she couldn't cope with her husband to be's death, and her broken heart could be heard throughout the attic. Then there was Madam Leota, who trapped herself in a crystal ball so she would live forever and was able to possess dolls to see outside her ball. 999 silly spooks haunted the house and let guests come through every day trying to find that 1 person to fill up the last spot as a happy haunt.
The movie was based on the ride but was a bit different. It centered on the Evers family who ran a real estate business. They got a call to represent a huge mansion, and Jim Evers (eddie murphy) couldn't resist. Before going on a family vacation, they stopped at the mansion, and the creepy butler told them that they were wanted to stay for dinner. During dinner with Master Gracey, the road flooded and the family was trapped in the house. They agreed to spend the night, and were shown their rooms. Then Eddie Murphy gets called to speak to Master Gracey, and while he is waiting, he finds a secret passage way and gets stuck in it. He eventually finds his way to Madam Leota, where he finds out about the curse on the house. Then Murphy's wife gets a tour of the house from Mr. Gracey himself, and eventually it is found out that the butler was evil, and he ment to kill Murphys wife so she could marry Mr. Gracey because he believed that she was his reincarnated bride to be that was poisoned and died. Leaving out some of the details in case you want to see the movie yourself, eventually the ghosts all get to go to heaven.
The special effects in the movie were amazing, as well as all of the makeup and stuff. Everything in that section was flawless.
But the movie did have some inconsistencys that made it lose some stuff. I didn't like the changes that they made to the story line. They should have kept the story more along the lines of the ride. Also, in movie time, it took eddie murphy a good 3 hours to figure out the house was haunted, even though he was surround by ghosts, who even admited they were ghosts. Another thing. Many times torches would be taken out of a spot, but in the next shot the character who took them out would still be holding the torch, but another one replaced it. And finally, at the end of the movie, the Evers got to keep the house, and they took Madam Leota with them, which is understandable since she lives forever, but they also took the singing heads which should have no longer been haunted since all of the ghosts went to heaven at the end of the movie.
Overall, it was an ok movie. Nothing great, but fun to a Haunted Mansion fan.
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Summary: the greatest movie yet
Review: the movie is a fantastic movie.it's the best movie that has
ever come out in theaters.the director did a fantasic job.
i like the part when megan swipes the spider and says are you
happy now.and he says no.
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