A funereally paced downer.
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11/26/03
The Haunted Mansion (2003)
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Reviews Counted:133
Fresh:17
Rotten:116
Average Rating:4.2/10
Consensus: Neither scary nor funny, The Haunted Mansion is as lifeless as the ghosts in the movie.
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Childrens
Synopsis: THE HAUNTED MANSION comes alive like never before with incredible visual and special effects in this all-new, fun-filled comedy adventure. Shrouded in fog and mystery, the mansion was once a... [More]
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Terence Stamp, Wallace Shawn, Marsha Thomason
Director: Rob Minkoff
Reviews for The Haunted Mansion
The film equivalent of the dark, boring period on a haunted house ride before the gondola crashes into another room filled with dirty mirrors.
11/26/03
Top CriticThis is a 99-minute commercial for a three-minute attraction.
11/26/03
Trite special effects, uninspired dialogue.
11/26/03
An efficient, reasonably enjoyable factory product that should scare a 9-year-old just enough and be gone from his or her memory by dinnertime.
11/26/03
About as much fun as a day at Disneyland -- when it's raining and all the rides are broken and the car is at the extreme other end of the parking lot.
11/26/03
Although The Haunted Mansion starts promisingly and presents a wealth of possibilities, filmmakers decide to go the formulaic route to bring in the kiddies.
11/26/03
Although the ads make it sound like Zombie Day Care, Disney’s $90 million thriller-comedy is not necessarily the right film to take your kids to this weekend.
11/26/03
The Haunted Mansion, is a good reason for skeptics of the "theme park ride as movie" concept to be skeptical.
11/26/03
...plays like a contest between Eddie Murphy's popping eyes and his gaping mouth: Which one can more forcefully convey fright?
11/26/03
Murphy is in grating, eager-to-please form.
11/26/03
It's hard to get excited about watching a real estate deal go down, even if it is with a bunch of ghosts.
11/26/03
...terminally lame...
11/26/03
The Haunted Mansion is goofy fun.
11/25/03
The special effects display is so lacking in imagination it turns into so much noise, just a flashy distraction from the stiff, stock cliches of the by-the-numbers script.
11/25/03
I am told that Eddie Murphy was once cool, but at this point I don't know if I believe it.
11/25/03
Makes things look good and whips up a heck of a chase scene [but] misses the emotional foundation, the single essential element of any movie
11/25/03
The latest Eddie Murphy flick is more like the amusement park ride than Disney probably intended: it’s fun for kids, but for the rest of us it’s a bit of a bore.
11/25/03
Nathaniel Parker and his delectable deliciousness is all I can seem to remember about the film.
11/25/03
Amusing time-killer.
11/25/03
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September 22, 2003:
I know I’ll take some sort of perverse pleasure in watching Eddie Murphy terrorized by dark spirits. 
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