cinephile-27690 This is a movie I am not recommending if you are an adult. Kids will probably like it more than I did. If you are a kid, tune this out. The movie stars Eddie Murphy as real estate agent who is a workaholic. On a weekend he's supposed to spend with his family, he has to stop at a house to look over. It's not until he gets there that he finds out it's actually a...you guessed it, a haunted mansion. They then get stuck there and must escape. For a movie starring a man who dropped 230 F-bombs in a 75 ish minute time period 16 years before, this is a pretty tame movie. it's fun for the kids, yet grown ups may not be as entertained. Some movies, like I said in my "Spy Kids 3" review, are best left for the kids. It's not "Eddie Murphy Raw", but it's not "Shrek" either. I only saw about half of this movie. The 3/5 stars I rated the movie does not apply to the whole movie, just the first half of the movie. Does it improve? I don't know, and don't really care to. Just leave it to the kids to decide, and if you want to see it, be my guest. Before I finish, I'd like to say Roger Ebert gave it 2.5 stars, and Common Sense Media gives it 1 star, and both people saw it all. It has a 4.9 on IMDB. I give it 6. There's not many people who can say they liked it. It's still your choice, but I'm just saying...

gavin6942 Workaholic realtor Jim Evers (Eddie Murphy), his wife/business partner Sara and their two children are summoned to a mansion. When they discover that the place is haunted, Jim discovers an important lesson about the family he's neglected as they attempt to escape.Other than the "Shrek" films, Eddie Murphy's career took a rather downward turn after the 1980s. And although he may or may not have been right for this part (something seems a little off), it is not the terrible flop that people make it out to be.Fans of the ride will be impressed with how they were able to take so many elements and turn them into a single narrative. If you want a faithful adaptation, this is much closer to the source than "Pirates of the Caribbean" (even if that is the better film).There are a few scenes that might scare younger viewers (much like the ride), but overall this is pretty good family fun. Besides Murphy, we get some decent performances from Wallace Shawn and the wonderful Terence Stamp, who does the Karloff-as-old-butler routine quite nicely.

convincing60 This is a very basic and plain movie, its just another stupid black comedy with Eddie Murphy. He's always in stupid kiddie movies, it's ruining his career. The Haunted Mansion isn't that great of a movie, the script and plot are very basic and predictable. The special effects were cool but they should have included a little more. One good thing about the movie is that there wasn't a lot of horror scenes.Don't bother watching this garbage, its a silly Disney movie with very little comedy and action. These "so-called" black comedies are so dirt, they suck. This is just a cheesy rip-off of kiddie craps mixed together with kiddie horror.

jfgibson73 I heard it was terrible, so I went a long time without watching it. But since I like the ride so much, I wanted to see it in case there were even a few things from the attraction that they working in successfully. As a fan of the attraction, I angrily hate this movie. It is so far off from something so well done, it shouldn't even exist. But watching it with my young daughter, who knows nothing about the ride, I saw it a different way. It drew her in immediately and kept her attention. She wanted to see what happened to the family, and things progressed at a good rate. Nothing was too intense, although not every kid will be able to handle the crypt scene. So from that point of view, it is an entertaining family film that works good as a first scary movie. I still hope they make another one that is more for fans of the attraction, though.