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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Walt Disney Video
Salesrank: 22540
Released: April 20, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
From the studio that brought you PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN ... here's the fright-filled comedy adventure loaded with hair-raising laughs and eye-popping special effects! Eddie Murphy (DADDY DAY CARE) stars as a real estate agent whose family comes face-to-face with 999 grim, grinning ghosts in the creepy old Gracey Manor! Now with the help of supernatural psychic Madame Leota (Jennifer Tilly, LIAR, LIAR) they must hilariously battle to break the mansion of its age-old curse ... and do it before the clock strikes 13!
Description of The Haunted Mansion (Widescreen Edition):
Lush production design and sparkling special effects make The Haunted Mansion pretty to look at. Terence Stamp (The Limey), as a malevolent ghost of a butler, provides a suitable air of menace as dematerializes to and fro. Marsha Thomason (Black Knight) is lovely as a real estate agent hired to sell a haunted mansion, but in truth the ghostly owner of the mansion believes she is the reincarnation of his lost love. Wallace Shawn (My Dinner with Andre) and Dina Waters (Six Feet Under) make a modestly amusing comic pair as a ghostly husband and wife who bustle about. Jennifer Tilly (Bound), as a green disembodied head in a crystal ball, glitters appropriately. The movie also features endless clichés, futile attempts at humor, and Eddie Murphy. If you're looking for a movie based on a Disneyland ride, try the very clever Pirates of the Caribbean instead. --Bret Fetzer
The Haunted Mansion (Widescreen Edition) Reviews:
Charming and fun 
2009-10-24 - OK, we all know this is a kids movie, but it is fun and Eddie Murphy is charming as the too-busy husband and father who is forced to realize how important his family is. Anyway who can listen to Eddie Murphy's laugh and not grin? Great fun and easy to enjoy. Not great art, but entertaining! Typical non-animated Disney fare, with a good moral for everyone who watches, and great special effects.
good movie 
2009-08-15 - For accuracies sake..They are driving into the sunset on Ponchatrain bridge (north of New Orleans, LA).....Only problem....the bridge runs north-south...and NOT east to west...so they couldn't possibly be driving into the sunset...or the sunrise, for that matter
Just wanted to point that out.....but hey, it's only a movie
Walt, did you somersault in your grave? 
2009-06-27 - I know this movie is constantly getting compared to Pirates of the Caribbean, and that's justified, because almost everyone who loves one of these Disneyland rides is just as crazy about the other. But Johnny Depp is prolific and can act well in a sinister role. Eddie Murphy has bombed in some of his comedies (like that hideously stupid Norbit movie), and he doesn't always do a good job with kiddie humor. He failed in Haunted Mansion because nothing he said was surprising. My other reasons for hating this film are personal, I guess. Having ridden most Disney attractions dozens of times, I applauded the Pirates movie for being loyal to the storyline you'd expect in such a setting. I expected a movie based on my beloved Mansion ride to be creepy and campy, not spoiled with stupid modern-day language like "getting jiggy" just so kids would lap it up. What about all of us Disneyland fans old enough to fondly reminisce? Other reviewers felt it was a bad decision to bring the setting into the twentieth century, and I agree. And a black family was jarringly out of place. I don't care what people say; this antebellum mansion should have had eccentric Southern aristocratic types living in it. Even if this movie had come out when I was a little kid, I would have been sorely disappointed by the lack of loyalty to the ride. Disney can and should turn out films that would appeal to kids AND adults, especially when based on such an awesome timeless attraction!
Poor Eddie! 
2009-06-18 - The Haunted Mansion starring Eddie Murphy was a film I watched a few years ago on t.v. I was disappointed because when is the last time Murphy did a memorable film? and I hated Dreamgirls in which he was nominated for an Oscar. The Haunted Mansion is based on the ride at Disneyland, I wasn't impressed by this family film at all but I did like how colorful it was. Lame story and messy acting, only tacky kids would dig this train wreck.
for Aficionados
2009-06-05 - the movie is certainly interesting for those who know and like the haunted mansion at Disney's and who like to compare how the different objects and locations of the Magic Kingdom attraction have been used. Thanks to Eddy Murphy you get quite a few laughs, but some of the scenes are a little bit shrill, so that the movie is not suitable for little children.
