The Haunted Mansion (Full Screen Edition) |  | Director: Rob Minkoff
Actors: Eddie Murphy, Marsha Thomason, Jennifer Tilly, Terence Stamp, Nathaniel Parker
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  159 reviews
Sales Rank: 31373
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 88 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D32092D
ISBN: 0788848399
UPC: 786936226607
EAN: 9780788848391
ASIN: B0001A79EO
Theatrical Release Date: November 26, 2003
Release Date: April 20, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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
Product Description
WHEN JIM EVERS & HIS FAMILY FIND THEMSELVES STRANDED IN A 150 YEAR OLD CREEPY & CRUMBLING MANSION IN NEW ORLEANS, THEY COME FACE TO FACE WITH THE MANOR'S RESIDENTS - 999 GRIM & GRINNING GHOSTS! NOW THE EVERS FAMILY MUST WEATHER FALLING FLOORS & MOVING PICTURES BEFORE THE CLOCK STRIKES 13.
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 The Haunted Mansion (Full Screen Edition) January 18, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
Realtor workaholic Jim Evers and his wife and business partner Sara gets a call late one night from mansion owner Edward Gracey, who is looking to sell his property. Smelling the biggest deal of their career, Jim, Sara and their two children pay a visit to the mansion, located on a remote bayou. A torrential thunderstorm of mysterious origin strands the Evers family in the old mansion with the brooding, eccentric Gracey, his mysterious butler, Ramsley, and a variety of residents both seen and unseen. At first Jim scoffs at Gracey's stories about ghosts and hauntings, until he unearths the mystery of the mansion and finds that his wife Sara has unexpected connections to its haunted past. This is a fun movie for kids, and amusing for adults, and a fun performance by Murphy and the kids.
 bleh December 17, 2009
Matthew David Ritchey (Hollywood, CA USA)
Awful. Hundreds of brilliant possibilities with a forty-year world-renowned property and they come up with a played out, unfunny modern "comedy" with Eddie Murphy of all people. It deserved better. An animated version would have been better than this.
Charming and fun October 24, 2009
Rocky Mountain Girl (Colorado)
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 August 15, 2009
Lee J. Davito
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? June 27, 2009
Penny (Los Angeles, CA USA)
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!
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