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Goosebumps (2023)
Season 1 Premiere: Oct 13, 2023
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6.1
All Seasons
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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36% Positive
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64% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
62
36% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
64% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
This version is updated with interesting plots, clever dialogue, and lots of pop culture references. While some pre-teens will enjoy it, it feels like the target audience skews a touch older thanks to some genuine creepiness throughout.
It’s kind of remarkable what the Goosebumps team has done here: taken a campy horror franchise and made it resonant, managing to mix frights and feels.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
6.1
54% Positive
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
8% Mixed
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38% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
6.1
54% Positive
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
8% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
38% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Decent revival could've been better, but a pretty fun ride. I'd watch more of this!
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The new "Goosebumps" strikes a nice balance. You'll be on edge, without falling out of your seat.
Rob Letterman and Nicholas Stoller’s series adaptation increasingly gets bogged down trying to deliver supernatural horror and angsty teen drama and a thoughtful rumination on how the mistakes of the past generation can reverberate into the present. Still, there’s adequate heart and humor and (TV-PG) gore here to serve as an amiable intro to horror for the adolescent set.
The biggest problem is that, in trying to please everyone coming to the series and their respective expectations of what Goosebumps should be, this newest incarnation remains trapped in a limbo of its own creation that it can’t break free from.
What starts as an enjoyable, mature take on Stine's classic series with some inventiveness in its structure and storytelling becomes a generic horror series built to keep the "Stranger Things" crowd happy as they wait for their favorite show's final season.
Instead of streamlining things for a refined first season, following perhaps just one or two of the teens closely and expanding as it progressed into later seasons, the show is a lump of bland YA themes with a sprinkle of Halloween for flair.
This may have an audience, but I believe it missed the mark with the Goosebumps potential target audiences.
Goosebumps should be for spooking young kids without being overly scary or dark, or should be for nostalgic adults who grew up on the books and TV show. Only this show fails to do either things, as it's too dark for kids (blood, violence, etc) and there's very little of Goosebumps to appeal to nostalgic adults.
The story picks and chooses from Goosebumps lore, and mildly twists the book elements where they're only vaguely recognizable. This truly feels like a spec script that was unrelated to Goosebumps that only got greenlit on the caveat that it implement Goosebumps elements and title.
If you mildly enjoyed CW's Riverdale, you may mildly enjoy this as it feels VERY CW-esque. If you enjoyed Goosebumps, you likely won't enjoy this much or at all. So save yourself, and your kids, the time and just go re-watch the original TV series.
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It’s terrible. I turned the subtitles on so I could send my friends pictures of how bad the dialogue was. If I’m being charitable, the best thing is that it’s filmed professionally. That said, I’m not a fan of the muted color palette they’ve gone with. As a 36-year-old, when I see the title Goosebumps I’m thinking this will offer some 90s throwback energy, but they deliver zero of that, instead choosing to go with a feeling of modern YA streaming schlock.
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The show is awful. Production values are ok. Justin Long does good. I like Rob Huebal but he's out of his element here. The writing and direction are absolutely awful. I'm convinced Disney is review boosting on sites because there is barely anything positive to say about this show.
The show clearly is trying to be Chucky, but that show was a one time novelty that works because of its camp value. Instead we get awful generic high school garbage that can't even get the heart of the stories correct. Thr show made for a younger audience in the 90s is a better viewing experience than this and that isn't nostalgia tinted glasses. This is taking every awful modern writing element and taking it to an extreme. Its endemic to everything Hollywood needs to expunge.
The art of creation can be difficult and it's clear that every mind behind the scenes realized that and decided to create nothing instead. Somehow in the attempt to modernize the old stories they managed to craft stories less creative and interesting. There is no lesson behind the haunted mask. Cookoo clock of doom doesn't become a backwards march towards oblivion brought on by revisiting past traumas. Say cheese and die just becomes a story beat. It is just hollow succession of "and something happened" moments. They do nothing clever and it's at the point I hope this goes the way of the Willow show.
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Production Company:
- Factory Underground
- Mofo Films
- Original Film
- Scholastic Entertainment
- Sony Pictures Animation
- Sony Pictures Television Studios
- Sony Pictures Television
- Stoller Global Solutions
Initial Release Date: Oct 13, 2023
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-PG
