Based as it is on the monstrously popular book series from the 1990s, it wouldn't be surprising if Goosebumps the movie played best to a very specific demo -- the Millennials who so cherish the last decade of the last century and were raised on R.L. Stine's spooky anthology tales as well as the TV show based on the same.
But Sony's Goosebumps, which stars Jack Black (as a fictional version of Stine) and was directed by Rob Letterman (Black's, ahem, Gulliver's Travels helmer), does not require such generation-specific fandom in order to be enjoyed, and is in fact an all-inclusive monster romp that's fun and spooky and just a little bit touching too.
While a Goosebumps movie has been rumored since the '90s, one can see the potential difficulties of adapting the books. As a series of anthology stories, there is no set protagonist or villain for a screenwriter to latch onto. (See Twilight Zone: The Movie for an example of a beloved anthology series gone wrong in movie form.) But the notion of making Stine a character in his own series, and pitting him in a single tale against a host of some of his most popular monsters, fiends and ghouls from across the pantheon of Goosebumps books, proves to be the key to unlocking the series' big-screen potential.
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