Haunted Mansion review: Disney horror-comedy plays it too safe
The loose remake of Eddie Murphy’s 2003 film of the same name does its best but falls short.
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The loose remake of Eddie Murphy’s 2003 film of the same name does its best but falls short.
LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish and Owen Wilson do their best in this loose remake of Eddie Murphy’s 2003 film of the same name.
If you asked 100 people to name a movie based on a Disney theme park attraction, I’d bet at least 90 would go with the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise,
LaKeith Stanfield plays a grief-stricken astrophysicist who tries to help a single mother played by Rosario Dawson out with her haunted house in “Haunted Mansion,” based on the Disney ride.
LaKeith Stanfield is disarmingly good as a griefstricken astrophysicist barely scraping by in New Orleans, and increasingly jaded about the spirit-crazed tourists and mythologies of the city he calls home. Unfortunately, though, this character and performance is housed in “Haunted Mansion,” Disney’s second attempt in 20 years to make a fun movie out of one