Goosebumps
Enjoyement: 7/10
As a film: 5/10The ending was stupid (caused confusion, pretty much created a plot hole), some of the humour was pretty bad and the CGI was straight out of Sharkboy and Lavagirl. I still recommend checking it out, especially those who liked the books as kids.
I remember how much everyone adored those books in elementary school. Then I finally picked one up and just couldn’t stand it. It was awful. So when I saw the trailer for this, my eyes rolled out of my head.
The TV show was so cheesy and awful that I kinda enjoyed it, but I avoided the books at all costs.
I was a great big fan of the books back in the day – hell, if it weren’t for them, I probably wouldn’t have become a prolific reader of anything but comics – and R. L. Stine became one of my favourite authors.
Come 2007 or so, though, and I just lost my taste for anything the guy writes. I began re-reading all the Stine novels I’d owned, and it was like experiencing Ed Wood in book form. Suffice it to say, all but three of those books have since been donated to local thrift stores (Two I kept for nostalgic reasons, the third for the awesome interior art.).