Here comes Ted.
You ever watch one of those movies where you go in skeptical for whatever reason, but the movie ends up winning you over? I try to go into a movie with an open mind, but we all have baggage as film watchers. It reminds me of that scene in The Empire Strikes Back , when Luke asks Yoda what’s in the creepy tree. “Only what you take with you,” Yoda answers. I remember starting the first Goosebumps movie and thinking, “Eh, I dunno, it’s based on a bunch of kids’ books I’ve never read, and Jack Black isn’t as funny as he was back in the old Tenacious D days.” But the more I saw of Goosebumps , the more I liked it. And then Black delivered an incredible line of dialogue (“Every story ever told can be broken down into three parts… The beginning. The middle. And the twist!”), and I was all-in on the movie. As much as I enjoy being won over by a movie, I gotta admit, it’s even more fun to watch someone else get won over by one of my movies. Which is not something I witness often. But it ...