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Current Rotten Tomatoes score: 30% (10 reviews)

Samples:

"If you have any desire or curiosity to see Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween, you will probably like it. Little is great about it, except for the monsters, but it does what it needs to do well enough for it to be entertaining."

- Germain Lussier, i09.com

"If you liked the first movie, go into this one expecting more of the same... It's going to be what you saw before, but not as good."

- Dan Murrell, Screen Junkies

"The Halloween monster mash iconography is incredibly strong and the cast is excellent, but Goosebumps 2 is in far too much of a hurry – and perhaps too eager to be widely accessible – to be actually scary or wholly effective."

- Witney Seibold, IGN

"It (Goosebumps) was smart and silly and scary, anchored by the inimitable Black. But the follow-up, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween, is a serious disappointment, starting with how Black is barely in it. Less Black, less 'bumps, as it turns out."

- Katie Walsh, New York Daily News

"The script is more contrived than ever, the characters are largely underwritten, and the monsters look cheap and get very little to do."

- William Bibbiani, TheWrap

"Unfortunately, though, Haunted Halloween squanders the intelligence and creativity of the first Goosebumps movie on a sequel that would have been more fitting as a direct-to-video release."

- Dana Schwartz Entertaiment Weekly

"It should please younger fans of the books who will have no problem with its rudimentary storyline all too repetitive of the original. But it does feel like a missed opportunity to elevate the valuable franchise to bigger and more imaginative heights."

- Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter

"But if Goosebumps 2 was a movie of behind-the-scenes negotiations, the filmmakers did the best to make a film that’s at least worth the matinee price. Go with modest expectations and a kid who can’t wait to see the film and you’ll have a pretty good time."

- Peter Hartlaub, The San Francisco Chronicle  