This is a pacey and enjoyable kids' horror romp that stays faithful to the spirit of Stine's books and delivers a pleasing amount of both thrills and laughs.
This modern riff on Monster Squad is a very pleasant surprise, and so ’80s in spirit that it’s a shock one of the villains isn’t a giant Rubik’s Cube.
Made with an anarchic glee that, in its better moments, rekindles memories of Joe Dante's zany, tongue-in-cheek movies of the 1980s.
Goosebumps has a clever mixture of monsters, mayhem, comedy and romance that will remind parents of childhood favourites such as The Goonies, Gremlins or Jumanji.
It’s the amusing Black who owns the film, his natural ebullience a formidable match for the rampaging nasties. The effects are terrific.
Jack Black plays children’s horror writer RL Stine in a scrappy yarn that brings a horde of his creepiest ghouls together.
It's too generic to be engaging.
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