The Haunted Mansion

2003 "Check your pulse at the door... if you have one."
5.2| 1h39m| PG| en
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Workaholic Jim Evers and his wife/business partner Sara get a call one night from a mansion owner, Edward Gracey, who wants to sell his house. Once the Evers family arrive at the mansion, a torrential thunderstorm of mysterious origin strands them with the brooding, eccentric Gracey, his mysterious butler, and a variety of residents both seen and unseen.

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NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!
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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...
slightlymad22 The Haunted Mansion (2003)Plot In A Paragraph: Realtor Jim Evers is a workaholic, so he takes his family on a vacation to a nearby lake. En route he is asked to check out a Mansion, with the possibility of him selling it.With a movie based on The Pirates Of The Caribbean theme park ride, grossing over $300 million at the domestic box office, as adults and kids delighted in the exploits of Captain Jack Sparrow, Disney has similar hopes for another movie based on one of their rides when it opened later in the year. This could have been a classic, but it doesn't work for me.Once again, I watched this with someone of the target audience, my girlfriends daughter. Personally I found it neither scary nor funny, but the fact that she had nightmares says it all. I found it cliche and bland. Everything from the workaholic Dad with no time for his wife and kids, the painting that looked like Murphy's wife, the obvious MacGuffins, and although it sort of deals with race and racism, it is never actually mentioned. I remember Murphy making fun of movies like this in Delierious, saying black people are too smart for Haunted houses. Murphy kind of sleepwalks through this one, Terrance Stamp is the best thing in it, the kids are ok, whilst Jennifer Tilly is surprisingly not annoying as usual. The effects are ok too, but overall it was watchable, and Sadly nothing moreThe Haunted Mansion did not live up to expectations (especially those set by Captain Jack Sparrow) as it grossed $75 million at the domestic box office to end 2003 as the 38th highest grossing movie of the year. This would be the last movie Murphy appeared in for 3 years. Whilst promoting this movie Murphy (42 at the town) said he planned to retire at 50, and become a gentleman of leisure.
FlashCallahan Realtor workaholic Jim Evers and his wife and business partner Sara gets a call late one night from mansion owner Edward Gracey, who is looking to sell his property. Smelling the biggest deal of their career, Jim, Sara and their two children pay a visit to the mansion, located on a remote bayou. A torrential thunderstorm strands the Evers family in the old mansion with the brooding, eccentric Gracey, his mysterious butler, Ramsley, and a variety of residents both seen and unseen. At first Jim scoffs at Gracey's stories about ghosts and hauntings, until he unearths the mystery of the mansion and finds that his wife Sara has unexpected connections to its haunted past....The thing is when you base a film on a theme park ride, you cannot help but use the same story and narrative. This film could have been done very seriously and been made into something that could have had the potential to be quite scary, but even Disney wouldn't take that gamble.The film is fine, Murphy is the reason to watch this, but the film is rarely funny and never scary. We move from set piece to set piece, with okay effects and learning that work isn't everything, but family is for life.Stamp is good, but looks embarrassed, and it gets a little too long in the tooth.
highwaytourist What was Eddie Murphy doing in this movie? The idea of having married realtors and their two children getting trapped in the haunted mansion while there on business and trying to escape wasn't a bad idea, but the execution was all wrong. Murphy endlessly mugs the camera, which makes his miscasting even more obvious. And the script? It's painfully obvious, with predictable lessons about not giving up, follow your heart, face your fears, love conquers all, and blah, blah, blah. The story is so generic that it's mechanical, all the way to its predictable ending. Very little of the original story or characters are used and when they are, they just have bit appearances. Amid all of this are beautiful costumes, decent special effects, sets that are elaborate yet artificial looking, and wisecracks that raise the occasional smile or chuckle but are never as funny as the filmmakers think they are. The best that one can say it's harmless and easy enough to take. Very faint praise indeed.