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Neither scary nor funny, The Haunted Mansion is as lifeless as the ghosts in the movie.

Nell Minow Common Sense Media Go on the Disney ride instead. It's over sooner. Rated: 1/5 Dec 28, 2010 Full Review Empire Magazine Rated: 1/5 Dec 30, 2006 Full Review BBC.com Rated: 2/5 Feb 3, 2004 Full Review Mike Massie Gone With The Twins The cleverness is at a minimum; few things stand out as memorable or inventive or shocking. Rated: 5/10 Aug 9, 2023 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews It's an Abbott and Costello film without those likeable comedians, who had a great career in such dumb comedies. Rated: C Jul 29, 2023 Full Review James Croot The Post NZ Writer David Berenbaum, who created the wonderfully subversive Elf, here produces a leaden script too scary for many youngsters and too moralising and saccharine for those over 10. Rated: 2/5 Jul 21, 2023 Full Review Read all reviews

Nereyda Jaimes it was funny a great family movie to watch with the kids Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 08/29/23 Full Review Benjamin S It’s first act was mostly dialogue and didn’t really make an effort to establish strong enough emotional motivation, display enough ghostly mischief, or meaningful character interactions. The second act feels like filler. The most it attempts to be entertaining in the first two thirds is a few cgi moments and relying on Tiffany Haddish doing Tiffany Haddish schtick. It becomes actually entertaining after the first hour. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/17/23 Full Review FAN It was fun to be swept away into this movie and never think about anything else! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/11/23 Full Review denise b This was a great family movie! I really enjoyed it. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/06/23 Full Review Carolyn S At least Master Gracey and the hitchhiking ghosts were pretty hot and sexy Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/01/25 Full Review Alexandre N A generic movie without much to remember. One of Eddie Murphy’s annoying role. The 2023 adaptation is much better. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 11/11/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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Jim Evers (Eddie Murphy, left) asks Madame Leota (Jennifer Tilly, right) for advice. Jim (Eddie Murphy, left), aides Ezra (Wallace Shawn, center) and Emma (Dina Waters, right) give a "hand" to Madame Leota (Jennifer Tilly, center right). When grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize, these four singing busts like to harmonize - with Jim Evers (Eddie Murphy, left) and his son, Michael (Marc John Jefferies, right) for an audience. The grand staircase is just the beginning of the mansion's hidden secrets. Director Rob Minkoff (left), with Eddie Murphy (center left), Marsha Thomason (right rear), Aree Davis (right center), and Marc John Jefferies (right foreground). Master Gracey (Nathaniel Parker, left) hides a secret that involves Jim's wife, Sara Evers (Marsha Thomason, right). Production Designer John Myhre (right) and supervising art director Tomas Voth (left) were charged with building the forty-foot-tall mansion and all its sets. Jim Evers (Eddie Murphy, center left) brings the family - wife Sara (Marsha Thomason, center), son Michael (Marc John Jefferies, center right), and daughter Megan (Aree Davis, right) to the mansion. Visual Effects Supervisor Jay Redd (right) gets a hand from one particularly ghastly creation. Costume designer Mona May (right) was charged with dressing all the ghouls. View more photos

Synopsis Workaholic real estate agent Jim Evers (Eddie Murphy) is accused by his wife, Sara (Marsha Thomason), of neglecting his son (Marc John Jefferies) and daughter (Aree Davis), so he takes the family on a vacation. Along the way, the family stops off at a sinister mansion that Jim has been asked to sell, only to discover it's haunted by Master Gracey (Nathaniel Parker) ; his stern butler, Ramsley (Terence Stamp) ; and two other servants who need some help breaking a curse.

Director

Rob Minkoff

Producer

Don Hahn, Andrew Gunn

Screenwriter

David Berenbaum, David Berenbaum

Distributor

Buena Vista Pictures

Production Co

Walt Disney Pictures, Doom Buggy Productions, Gunn Films

Rating

PG (Language|Frightening Images|Thematic Elements)

Genre

Kids & Family, Comedy, Fantasy

Original Language

English

Release Date (Theaters)

Nov 26, 2003, Wide

Release Date (Streaming)

Jan 1, 2014

Box Office (Gross USA)

$75.8M

Runtime

1h 28m

Sound Mix

Surround, Dolby SR, DTS, SDDS

Aspect Ratio

Scope (2.35:1)