The Haunted Mansion (2003)
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 135
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 117
Neither scary nor funny, The Haunted Mansion is as lifeless as the ghosts in the movie.
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 27
Neither scary nor funny, The Haunted Mansion is as lifeless as the ghosts in the movie.
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After the blockbuster success of Pirates of the Caribbean, another Disney theme park ride is adapted for the big screen in this family-friendly mix of comedy and chills. Jim Evers (Eddie Murphy) is a real estate agent whose latest project is to find a buyer for a huge but dilapidated old house in New Orleans. However, when Evers visits the property with his family, he discovers it's already inhabited by 999 ghosts, none of whom are interested in sharing the space. As the spirits make their
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All Critics (143) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (20) | Rotten (118) | DVD (24)
[I]t's dreadful.
Top CriticRob Minkoff has directed a movie that's nearly laughless and nowhere near as frightening as what's happened to Eddie Murphy's career.
A pleasant and atmospheric family romp, offering enough mildly chilling thrills to keep everyone entertained during its brief running time.
More Disneyland ride than movie, short on plot and long on dazzling visuals for the kiddies.
The point of Haunted Mansion is for audiences to sit back and enjoy the ride, which is easy to do thanks to an engaging story, the striking, Gothic-inspired set by Oscar-winner John Myhre and some delightful special effects.
It's perfectly palatable family fare for a long weekend when it's hard to find movies at the neighborhood 'plex that will please everyone.
Go on the Disney ride instead. It's over sooner.
When a Disney ride becomes a movie, there's not much hope that things will turn out as well as they do in this tame horror comedy.
Great visuals, few scares and laughs. But it IS clean family entertainment.
Beautiful production design and bags of promise give way to disappointment in this family comedy.
A thunderstorm of mysterious origin traps the old mansion.
The movie is too cartoonish to be scary and too dull to be funny.
Regardless of all the ghosts, or maybe because of them, The Haunted Mansion is one lifeless, spiritless affair.
Who would have thought that Buena Vista Home Entertainment would do right by The Haunted Mansion but not Kill Bill: Volume 1?
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