Slappy the devious ventriloquist dummy returns to run amuck, in this second installment of the family-friendly franchise based on R.L. Per press release, "You're in for a fun scare when Sony Pictures Home Entertainment unleashes Goosebumps 2 debuting on Digital and available via the Movies Anywhere App on December 25th and coming to Blu-ray and DVD January 15, 2019. For family-friendly horror-fantasy on the big screen, go see House instead.(Photo: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment) I personally hoped the sequel would be a Horrorland type thing instead of essentially the same plot. It’s just a disappointment after the first entry showed this concept can be done better. Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween is not a terrible movie. We do get Jack Black on hand for a little bit, but almost feels like he’s added in when they realized he can stop by for a day during The House with a Clock in its Walls downtime. I’m not sure if one bit was a direct nod to Halloween III: Season of the Witch or just a coincidence as I have Halloween on the brain (cough podcast cough) – and I’m watching Halloween III as I write this. There is great report between the leads and some well-done humor and nods to horror franchises. I’m pretty sure many of the extras characters straight up died. The design on Slappy is very well done – it’s not Black doing the voice this time but a reasonable facsimile. On the plus side – the monsters look great, there is fun in the sequences you came to see. Just wrapped up in a bow with really weird voice-over. Like there is about to be the next, real climax. How convenient is it? It doesn’t feel done. This all leads to a very rushed and easy ending. He does have the Halloween yard set up I want so bad though. Jeong plays the character in a way that makes those who laugh just because he is there happy. There is a notable cheapness to the whole she-bang even when it goes as the film keeps finding excuses to exit the town getting attacked (I’m pretty sure there are piles of dead), ranging from “let’s talk in this alley” to “hang out with as annoying as normal Ken Jeong for a minute”. The sequence when Slappy gets the gang back together is amazing and gets the spirit going. It’s a sequel, be bigger! When it does happen, the film is a blast with great production design for the creatures, including green orb head witches and a giant spider made from balloons. Odd as the mayhem starts about 20 minutes after it did the first time around. Undercooked way to get to Slappy, and later to the monster fun. Set ups that would work for a movie of the week but not so much on the big screen. With being a sequel, it takes too long to get to the expected Halloween/Monster mayhem with a really sketchy set of scenes to get to it. But this is very much the first one again with some details changed. Since it’s a sequel, one expects to use what worked the first time and build in a different way. ![]() The movie here is likely around the quality you expected. Think of the film you expected for the first film. ![]() It feels like one notch above a TV movie. (My first was in 6th grade in 1992 I think it was “Say Cheese and Die”) However, Goosebumps 2 is much lesser than first one. Not to mention a fantastic way to adapt the spirit of the long running series. It had a surprisingly heartfelt backbone to the family friendly carnage with a set of well known actors giving it their full attention – no slumming around. ![]() Not to mention a fantastic way to adapt the spirit of the long Let me lead with the first Goosebumps film from 2015 was a delight. Let me lead with the first Goosebumps film from 2015 was a delight.
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