Goosebumps

In this entertaining take of author R.L. Stine's popular young adult horror series that started to be published in 1992, we find teenagers Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) and his friend Champ (Ryan Lee) accidentally and unknowingly unleashing a real-life scary monster trapped inside a chained Goosebumps book. The monster quickly releases all of the other monsters in the books and together, they start terrorizing the town. Zach, the fictionalized Stine (Jack Black) and his beautiful daughter Hannah (Odeya Rush) attempt to trap them back into the books before it's too late.

The monster-hunt includes over 23 monsters including the Abominable Snowman of Pasadena, the Cuckoo Clock of Doom, mutant insects, the Werewolf of Fever Swamp, knife throwing garden Gnomers, and the main villain Slappy the Dummy. Use of simple but effective computer graphics are instrumental in keeping the scare factor low for the younger audience.

In addition to the great, at times silly and purposively exaggerated performances, the well balanced execution by director Rob Letterman and screenwriter Darren Lamke keeps the action-adventure, screams, and laughs constant in this fun, roller coaster thrill ride.