Not real happy about moving to a small town in Maryland, Zach (Dylan Minnette), quickly has an attitude adjustment after meeting the awesome girl next door, Hannah (Odeya Rush). The girl's father is gruff and not accepting of people; the mysterious dad happens to be R.L. Stine (Jack Black), the creator of the bestselling young readers Goosebumps series. Zach accidentally finds out a secret about the author, the monsters in his books are conjured in his fears and stay hidden in the books...until the Stine family library is intruded and a book is haphazardly opened. Now expect monsters of all sizes on the loose.Consider this a fun family flick. Any scares are quite tame and or lame. Most jokes are actually funny enough for adults. Imaginative enough to be a repeat Halloween favorite. Directed by Rob Letterman; plenty of action and color.Also in the cast: Amy Ryan, Halston Sage, Ryan Lee, Steven Kruger and Timothy Simons.

Considering I read all the goosebumps books and watched the TV series as a child I must admit I wasn't excited about seeing the movie at all. Most jack black movies make me cringe so just seeing his name in the titles is enough to put me off. However flicking through TV the other day my 12 year old piped up "let's give it a go" and to be honest I'm quite glad that we did. The start is a little slow, possibly because the main lads acting is slightly flat, but I do believe it's one of his first movies so I'll cut him some slack. I was interested to see how they would en corporate the books into a movie, I didn't for a moment think that the monsters would emerge from the books! Such a brilliant idea! Jack black played the role of the author very well, it's one of the few movies he's done that I would watch again. He was funny but not his usual over acting, I need to be funny self.The monsters are great, I've seen a lot of reviews complain it wasn't scary, to be fair there wasn't many scary moments for an adult - but I am a horror fan so I'm used to pretty wild movies. However my 12 year old said towards the end "I've actually got goosebumps" so I think people need to remember this is a PG rated movie, it's not going to give the average adult nightmares.The only disappointing detail was the story with Hannah. I thought it beautiful that he created a nice character as a friend and it brought a tear to my daughters eye that she too had to disappear into the final book. However the notion of the movie being left open for a sequel made her story no longer make sense. If he was able to leave invisible boy out when the monsters all got trapped why not leave Hannah out too? Especially as he went to the trouble of writing her, her own book to release her again?Other then that one part we quite enjoyed this movie and would recommend any 90's child to see it for the nostalgia effect at least. But please do remember that like me you probably read the book when you were a child, so put you "child hat" back on and stop expecting a major horror flick.

A teenager teams up with the daughter of young adult horror author R. L. Stine (Jack Black) after the writer's imaginary demons are set free on the town of Madison, Delaware.Let us be perfectly frank about this film, and the fact it is not quite a perfect movie. The biggest problem, by far, is the use of CGI. The Abominable Snowman is a bit rough, and the Werewolf is absolutely horrible. Why they chose to draw a werewolf rather than put a guy in a suit is beyond me, but it is the biggest mistake.That being said, the film is an excellent love letter to R. L. Stine. He was never my favorite, but I did read a couple of his books, and I am sure many of my generation read quite a few. Somebody bought those 400 million copies... although geared towards teenagers or young adults, I almost feel like people aged 30-35 might appreciate the movie more, or at least in a different way.

goosebumps is just awful, takes after the episodes all in one movie. which is 1 hour 39 mins, Jack blacks worst movie is this and only this. when I watched the trailer I thought i give it a try I never judged the trailer like some people do. I don't like gossebumps because all the monster's in it teaming up just didn't make it very good they were better on their own. The story was not good just not interesting. Then again, the monster's were good and the stunts were good. I'm reviewing this movie because I tried myself on it and did not enjoy it at all. goosebumps is also supposed to be creepy and some scary scenes, they were no scary scenes and creepy scenes at all.The dummy doll slappy was the leader of it all it should not of been this way the monster's were already terroising the town but I do understand why slappy was the leader. The movie was a comedy I didn't laugh at all the sense the humuor was not funny.finally, gosebumps was awful I'm not gonna say I recommend or don't recommend this movie I just hope this review dose help I mean people have give this good and bad reviews.