Haunted Mansion 2023 by AverageMansReviews

 Haunted Mansion 2023 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/animal cruelty/breaking/shooting/chopping/medical

Why was this given green lit for a reboot? In summary; this group of characters have to work together so that they can escape this Hundred Mansion, which has been recently purchased by Gabbie [Rosario Dawson:] is a doctor, unfortunately a widow but she has a young son by the name of Travis [Chase W. Dillon/Chase Dillon:] he misses his father and struggles to make friends.

The framework and pacing of this 123 minutes film is straightforward, as in it knows what it wants to do and it sticks to the plan.

Art: let's begin on this film's biggest asset, but even this has some strange problem the art really does capture the horror theme; be it from this Mansion and the costume designs of the ghost or/and this back story of this character that Prof Bruce Davis [Danny DeVito:] a professor of history at this college known as  Tulane University, which has been waiting a long time to get inside this location. But back to here and now, he gives us this information via the format of storyteller/voice-over and sequence of events; this sequence of events is captivating. The person I watched some of this content with said this film is dark [not by content] and after this individual had told me, I could see it. Meaning in hindsight I should have picked up on it but never mind.

Action/Comedy: there isn't much that stands out for me on both of these categories; Prof Davies eventually has got himself into this Mansion, he makes it a little way in and then quickly rushed by the chair with the ending result of him and other characters taking a trip to hospital, we also have other little bits and pieces [any spoken word or/and outlay or anything else if I have missed anything] like eggs puns and a small moment of a reference to Scooby Doo skit, where there is this corridor of doors a row on each side, where the monster could be chasing after Scooby Doo and the gang or/and in confusion it could be switched around.

Character developments, performances and voice performances: they are reliable versions of their character types, which can be reflected on these performances or/and voice performance, Danny DeVito is the only one that took what he had and ran with it so his performance is good for the rest theyyou either got performances which did the job or I didn’t pick up on such as Jadred Leto as characters, I don’t want to give too away about these characters as they are a part of the mystery. But likewise the person I went to watch this film with had to point this out to me that he was in this film, even though his name is in the beginning of the opening credits/scenes, I had forgotten or I mustn’t have been paying attention.

This film receives: 4/10, this film is mixed; what can I say about this film really? It is a generic family oriented [target audience based film.] Before I continue I should say full disclosure I haven't seen The Haunted Mansion 2003 as of this content being created. But let's be completely honest here who gave the green light for this reboot? Because the 2003 version was not that successful either, it is one of those film titles that you can say we may have gotten away with one there, as from the budget of $90 million it recouped $182.3 million [this is not including any other expenditure,] but hypothetically speaking let's give it the benefit of the doubt and let's give it a small profit margin. But this reboot will not have the same luxury in the slightest, because as things stand they are looking at roughly $86 million loss and obviously I expect this to come down a little to maybe if they are lucky $75 million loss. That way they can at least say after everything is said and done may be we just about got 50% of our money back.