Zombie town

This is a really bad movie. It's hilarious to me how unlikable the main character is. He is totally pretentious and thinks he's better than everyone around him. This movie did the whole "nerd" gets the girl routine except he's not a nerd hes a jerk. But I've never seen it done in such a poorly done way before. The person who is supposed to be the "jerk" is actually more likable than the so called protagonist.

The rest of the movie is a tax write off. I don't mind Goosebumps I remember those fondly from back in the day. I knew to expect a childish movie but this isn't a childish movie its just a horrible movie. I can't imagine what they paid the few big names actors who are in this movie.

Usually its a meme when they say highschoolers look 30. For some strange reason in the 90s they loved casting people way too old to play highschoolers. But this movie actually does that here in 2023. LOL both the leads are actually going to turn 30 next year and are playing kids in highschool. It makes it that much worse.

The absolute greatest part of this movie is in the post credits where Dan Aykroyd gives a little goodbye speech to the cast at the finish of production. It's funny because you can just tell he knows how cringe it is that he is giving props to the makers of this movie.

I've always a been a big fan of R. L Stines books from Goosebumps to Fear Street and have mostly loved most adaptions of those for all their faults and all, but this one has too many problems to count.

For one thing it's very boring. With an occasional moment of something exciting happening, the movie to often resorts to characters standing around talking and explaining. For a kids movie based on a book series with such a legacy as Goosebumps, you think they would try a little harder to entertain there target audience, but it's barely putting any effort in.

It's not really funny either. An occasional moment here and there gets a laugh, but you think with talent like Dan Aykroyd, you would get something that's at least more memorable, but half the time I forget what was even going on

I say be careful listening to the reviews giving this 9 and 10 stars. It's most likely people who worked on the movie trying to make sure it does well so that it looks good on their resume.

If you like your kids, I'd suggest just introducing them to the goosebumps tv series. Watching this just might turn them into brain dead zombies.

Not horrible, not good, just kind of an okay movie, which has two former great comedians in the movie. Chevy Chase and Dan Akroyd used to be comedy legends and make great films, this was more of a paycheck movie for them.

The other actors are okay, once again not horrible, not good, there is a story there but it has no pacing, no great set designs, nothing original.

So why watch this movie, if you like zombie movies, then there are a lot worse movies you can watch. This is not a movie you will be thinking about for the next week, it is a "I have two hours to waste and I love zombie movies" type of movie.

5.7/10

I was hoping that this would be a random, new gem that wasn't really advertised, but that expectation was not met. It's not that this was a terrible movie because I did enjoy myself. It just didn't hit the spot. It felt a little like a B-movie filmed by students just starting out on their filmmaking journey.

The film is described as being a comedy-horror. It definitely has its moments (limited) in how funny it actually is. A light chuckle with a snort here and there. The scare factor is really non-existent as I was caught off-guard, maybe, three times.

The acting felt non-committal. No big, or even little, shows of emotion including fear, happiness, friendship, or love. I liked the actors in their roles. They were definitely suited for them. Just believing they were in the situation and felt something for each other would've been nice.

The story is what intrigued me to check out the film. I never watched the trailer going in so the expectations were purely based on the synopsis. The way the zombies come about are different than what I have ever seen before, as well as their mannerisms, which also confused me slightly.

Overall, I didn't hate the film, but I didn't love it either. I left the theatre feeling meh. Honestly, "Community" (tv series) has done better films in thirty minutes than what this one did in ninety. The story can stay the same, but the acting needs to be better, more passionate. I can't even recommend checking this out on a cheap night as 5/8 people in my showing left before the end. I will admit, slightly, that I may not be seeing it for its full worth, and it may be a nugget, but for now it has to deal with being a middle of the road film in my eyes.

That's all for now. Thank you for taking the time to read my review. Until next time.... Enjoy the show!

I love RL Stine. This was not good, even that feels like an understatement. The plot is terrible or at best terribly executed. The editing was awful. The movie skips things a bit in places. The main characters are not ones you even care to root for (why is the guy always peeing? Why do they have a sweet moment then act like enemies the next second?). The relationship between the 2 is non-existent and very inconsistent, there's no growth. Even the character by Dan Aykroyd is just dumb- he knows what he did, doesnt seem to care then all of a sudden has a "realization"... It's just the worst RL Stine adaptation to date and the director/producer/writers should look into careers outside of film. I don't even leave reviews and had to for this one to maybe save someone else from losing an hour and a half of life to this monstrosity.