The Haunted Mansion (Full Screen Edition)

I find it hard to believe a child would be entertained by this. It has alot of adult dialogue and spends alot of time focusing on Eddie Murphy and all that real estate drama. I guess Eddie Murphy wants to look like a cartoon now, his hair has to be just so, like they get out a measuring tape to measure the precise angles and shape, oh whatever. And how much make-up does he need? It's like watching a synthetic robot. "Haunted Mansion" attempts to be funny, I think I laughed twice. I wish they would have totally went a different direction with the plot. Drop Eddie Murphy and his entire family (in my oppinion he was miscast) and focus more on the haunted mansion. The special effects were the most fun parts of the movie, anything would have been better than watching Eddie Murphy interact with his fake family. The ending had a religious twist that was both inappropriate and surreal. All the ghosts go to heaven! It seemed bizarre for a movie like this to end so campy and weird. I liked the parts with Jennifer Tilly as Leona, but it wasn't enough to carry the whole movie.

The bluray version of this film is much better than the DVD. I enjoyed watching this flick again.

{This review is part of my 31 days of Holloween series.]

Some of you reviewer guys out there should lighten up a little, already. This movie's for the kids & would make a great Halloween treat and/or Xmas stocking stuffer.

I really enjoyed the film. It featured nice, even refreshing, kids (who weren't obnoxious acting L.A. brats), a beautiful Mom, veteran actors Terence Stamp & BBC's Nathaniel Parker ("Inspector Lynly"), whose rather cold good looks fit the "Ghostly Master's" role perfectly.

I must be the only person in the USA who's I never seen Eddie Murphy's prior work. Apparently he's had something of a checkered career--but this movie has suggested I might have been missing something. I liked the positive, multi-racial orientation of the film, the lack of graphic violence & "F" words--and just over all good, kid & family friendly feeling of this fun movie.

The story is poor and even predictable. The characters are underdeveloped. The movie does not qualify as an horror flick, neither as a comedy. What is it?

The story line is very bad. I feel like the studio rush this movie out to fast and not care about the story. I gave this movie 2 stars because the special effect.