Storyline
Upset about moving from a big city to a small town, teenager Zach Cooper
(Dylan Minnette) finds a silver lining when he meets the beautiful
girl, Hannah (Odeya Rush), living right next door. But every silver
lining has a cloud, and Zach's comes when he learns that Hannah has a
mysterious dad who is revealed to be R. L. Stine (Jack Black), the
author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. It turns out that there is a
reason why Stine is so strange... he is a prisoner of his own
imagination - the monsters that his books made famous are real, and
Stine protects his readers by keeping them locked up in their books.
When Zach unintentionally unleashes the monsters from their manuscripts
and they begin to terrorize the town, it's suddenly up to Stine, Zach,
Hannah, and Zach's friend Champ (Ryan Lee) to get all of them back in
the books where they belong.
Details
Box Office
Budget: $58,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: $23,618,556 (USA) (16 October 2015)
Gross: $78,058,808 (USA) (4 December 2015)
User Reviews
Highly enjoyable film!
I remember when I was
young the Goosebumps TV show, but I was never got into it, or the books
they are based on past the the point of just knowing who R.L. Stine is.
It's
a perfect treat for Halloween as a group of children accidentally
unleash the monsters from Stine's mind, by unlocking the books they were
written into.
It's a fantastic adventure as Stine and this group of kids attempt to put his monsters back into the books.
It's
a fun story even if you are not aware of Goosebumps, but I'm sure if
you are a huge fan, you'll get a real kick out of seeing some of the
monsters from your favorite book make an appearance on the big screen.
It's
not just a fun film as some of the monsters were real creepy. Like the
Gnome army, the giant prey mantis and especially a ventriloquist
"puppet" voiced by Jack Black (who also plays a fictional version of
Stine).
It's a great time at the movies.