Alas, as concocted by director Letterman, they’re poorly rendered computerized knock-offs of famous baddies. There are also nasty garden gnomes and enormous insects and haunted cars populating this overstuffed tale, and at the center of this supernatural maelstrom, there’s Slappy (also voiced by Black), an evil ventriloquist doll who’s the dark flip-side of Stine, who gets very angry if you call him a “dummy.”įor people of a certain age who grew up on Stine’s books, these fantastical fiends’ appearance will likely be met with nostalgic glee. An abominable snowman wreaks havoc in a home and, later an ice rink, followed later by the resurrection of a zombie army in a nocturnal cemetery. Games of hide-and-seek with hungry werewolves in grocery store aisles coexist side-by-side with flights from gigantic oceans of ooze and trips aboard Ferris wheels rolling through forests. His dialed-to-eleven performance quickly wears out its welcome, as does the rest of Letterman’s film, which rampages through set pieces like a kid racing to get to the bathroom before wetting himself. If so, he must have been compensated handsomely, because “Goosebumps” never wastes a chance to capture Black in extreme close-ups fit for hammy snarls and wide-eyed looks. ‘Love Again’ Review: Not Even Celine Dion Can Save This Wildly Contrived Rom-Com from Its Own Sadness
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