Goosebumps 2 certainly has its heart in the right place, but that doesn't keep it from feeling like stale, year-old candy.

| Jul 1, 2020

The second film in a franchise with so much existing material to pull from should simply never be this dull.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 9, 2020

Subversive, yet always fun for all Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween is spooky with added "Ooo!" and is destined to become a family Halloween classic.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 5, 2019

The blend of family-friendly movie monsters is sure to inspire a love of horror in young audiences.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 19, 2019

Director Ari Sandel crafts a tale unsettling enough to push kids out of their comfort zones, but not scary enough to ruin their chances of a nightmare-free sleep.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2019

You could certainly do a lot worse than this bouncy horror/comedy that's sure to please fans of [R.L.] Stine's long-running novel series.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 4, 2019

The film loses its charm and gets closer to a bad direct-to-video sequel from the 90s. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 5, 2019

It just wasn't very creative or fun scary.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Feb 25, 2019

Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween follows a lot of the same story beats as the first film but still displays some clever writing and provides audiences with an entertaining, family-friendly 90-minute horror romp.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 11, 2019

As the monsters proliferate, the film grows increasingly disinterested in character. Instead, like too many kid-oriented Halloween movies, it becomes infatuated with a sort of candy-colored, barely controlled chaos.

| Nov 27, 2018

There are some neat, inventive scares in this cheeky, far-superior sequel.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 5, 2018

There are flashes of inspiration sprinkled throughout Goosebumps: Haunted Halloween, but most of my enjoyment came as a result of my own passions and not anything the movie was doing especially well.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 30, 2018

The film motors along nicely with some mild scares carefully placed along the way, and the barest thread of a storyline makes for an effortless watch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 28, 2018

Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween does have a fair amount of bite for a PG-rated horror film, but the plot mechanics never quite come together, and it is also fairly predictable.

| Oct 27, 2018

In this competent, but very inferior sequel, the Amblin touch is still there as in the first, reinforced with echoes of 'Stranger Things.' [Full Review in Spanish]

| Oct 27, 2018

A film with a simple argument that prescribes to a great extent of digital images. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2018

For the Halloween season, this is a legitimately fun movie outing for kids, but not that much for adults.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2018

It's an SFX driven film and the character effects are imaginatively done to say the least. However, the film suffers when it comes to the plot and the story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2018

Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween will amuse young kids, but overall it isn't as lively or exciting as its predecessor, and less screentime for Jack Black is a bummer.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 26, 2018

This lacklustre sequel to the 2015 hit Goosebumps hardly has enough jokes to qualify as a comedy, which leaves it stranded in the netherworld of near-horror, aimed at children supposedly not yet ready for the real thing.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 23, 2018