I saw this the other night with the kids. It was typical Disney...with Eddie Murphy not at his best..but ok...it was an ok movie.
Laurie --- Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With the local multiplex already offering a theme > park of family films this > weekend, another movie based on an actual theme-park > ride joins the lot. > But Disney's The Haunted Mansion doesn't deserve an > E-ticket (which is what > the ride itself demanded back when Disneyland > distributed such tickets). > Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times gives the film, > which stars Eddie > Murphy, one of its better reviews, complimenting it > on its "ambition." > Writes Ebert: "It wants to be more than a movie > version of the ride. I > expected an inane series of nonstop action > sequences, but what I got was a > fairly intriguing story and an actual plot that is > actually resolved. That > doesn't make the movie good enough to recommend, but > it makes it better than > the ads suggest." Lou Lumenick in the New York Post > also mentions the ads > for the movie in his review, noting, "The > advertising slogan for The Haunted > Mansion warns, 'Check your pulse at the door' -- > pretty cheeky for a movie > that flatlines for almost all of its 98 minutes." > Jami Bernard in the New > York Daily News warns that "the foolish ones who > have bought tickets to this > fiasco are in for a skimpy plot, hidden stairways > and moving panels that > were old when Abbott and Costello met Frankenstein." > > Elvis Mitchell in the New York Times comments that > for a movie starring > Murphy and called The Haunted Mansion, the basic > problem is that there are > "no frights and no laughs." Mitchell says it's "the > film equivalent of the > dark, boring period on a haunted house ride before > the gondola crashes into > another room filled with dirty mirrors." To Chris > Kaltenback in the > Baltimore Sun, the movie is "lifeless, unimaginative > and almost determinedly > uninspired ... paint-by-numbers filmmaking at its > dreariest." > A few critics, however, take the view that the film, > after all, is aimed at > kids and shouldn't be judged by normal critical > precepts. David Hiltbrand in > the Philadelphia Inquirer, for example, writes: "At > once vivid and > unimaginative, The Haunted Mansion is a pleasant, > fright-free distraction > for the kids over the long holiday weekend." And > Kevin Thomas in the Los > Angeles Times, who can almost be counted on to > counter the opinions of the > majority of his colleagues, describes the film as > "uproarious ... lots of > fun ... a fright show artfully designed for the > whole family ... [with] > razzle-dazzle effects and production design." > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sndbox mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://sandboxmail.net/mailman/listinfo/sndbox_sandboxmail.net ===== And now I'm glad I didn't know The way it all would end the way it all would go Our lives are better left to chance I could have missed the pain But I'd of had to miss the dance. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree _______________________________________________ Sndbox mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sandboxmail.net/mailman/listinfo/sndbox_sandboxmail.net
