We are now officially living in an age where everything that could be getting rebooted is getting rebooted and heck we just had a new reboot in the Frasier revival series debut as of this writing just yesterday. Well now we have yet another reboot of a classic piece of media hit our computer screen right in time for the spooky season this one coming from the house of mouse itself and Sony Pictures and so then join me as I give you my first impressions of the show that needn't warn us that we're in for a scare with the show in question being called simply just "Goosebumps" enjoy.
The plot of this show is when supernatural things start to happen in a local town that threatens to reveal it's dark secrets a group of teens have to band together and save the town before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that'd actually featured / presented to us in these first two episodes was in all honesty not that bad. With the plot that we get in the first two episodes of the show that I watched being ding a good job of setting up the plot for the rest of the show as well as being really fairy entertaining and engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in these first twp episodes is Zack Morris as Isaiah Howard , Isa Briones as Margot Stokes and Miles McKenna as James. Also starring in these first episodes is Ana Yi Puig as Isabella Chen Lopez , Will Price as Lucas Parker , Rachael Harris as Nora Parker , Justin Long as Nathan Bratt , Rob Huebel as Colin Stokes , Leonard Roberts as Ben Howard , Ian Ho as Alan Chen Lopez , Ben Cockell as Harold Biddle , Rhinnan Payne as Allison , Francoise Yip as Victoria Chen Lopez and Laura Mennell as Eliza.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad. With the shows cast turning in some good performances which does make alot of sense as this shows co-creator Rob Letterman really does know how to director his actors and how to get good performances out of his cast and what helps the actors is the fact that the scripts for the first two episodes are really good and so all the cast have to do is just the words as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally.
Doing the CGI for these episode and hopefully this series is the really very little known studio Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that''s actually featured / presented to s in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad. However that's also the issue as the GI in these first two episodes wasn't all that good either with the CGI just looking very cheaply made at best and not something that you'd expect or even want to see in an effects heavy show like this one is.
For some reason instead of taking inspiration from the 1995 Goosebumps TV series this show instead takes it's inspiration from the Goosebumps film. In that while the show does indeed feature individual plots it also has one over arching plot which is something that I didn't like as this is a series that works better when it's an anthology series and not one it's telling one over arching plot line which is a shame because seeing how they work together two of the Goosebumps books in these first two episodes is pretty interesting but then it gets dull again when the show gets back to it's main plot which is something that both of the films did as well with both films adapting certain monsters from the books which was exciting but then in the case of the second film it would get dull again when it got back to it's main plot.
For some strange reason Disney chose to release the first five episodes of this ten episode show all at the exact same time. Which to me just doesn't make sense as you could have released one episode per day in the build up to Halloween but because they wanted to have the show premiere on Friday the 13th and release the episodes weekly instead of daily it means that the show will miss Halloween by a long while which is a shame because a show like this one would make for perfect Halloween viewing for young kids and yet for some odd reason Disney chose not to go with the route that would have gotten them alot more traffic to Disney+ and instead chose a route that won't get them that much more traffic to Disney+ on Halloween at all.
Again in a strange move even this show is fully being produced by Sony it's releasing on Disney+ and Hulu. With Hulu airing the show as apart of their Halloween streams I have no idea why there are two big entertainment companies doing different things for this show especially as Disney right now or even back in 2021 when this show was being developed wasn't in the best of shapes which means that it makes no sense from Sony's point of view to working with Disney and it makes no sense from Disney's point of view to working with Sony as while yes Disney will see a slight spike in viewership on Disney+ there most likely not going to be seeing any money coming in from the show and Sony would still have the right to pull the show from Disney+ should things with Disney head south.
Now then episode one of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty seven minuets and nineteen seconds and episode two has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty four minuets and eight seconds. I really have no idea what to think of this running as while it does allow for the overall plot of the show to breathe more it's not really the kind of running time that works best for this show and heck even the original show only had running times this high on certain special episodes thus making them feel all the more special but I will admit that each episode of this new show does indeed have some really good pacing to them.
So now then as this is a horror show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual scares that are actually featured / presented to us in these first few episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual scares that are actually featured / presented to us in these first few episodes were in all honesty not really good. As outside of one scene near the end of episode one there was nothing that was all that scary in both of these episodes and while there is a scene near the end of episode that tries to scary that it just comes across as trying to hard in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this show trys to be scary but it just isn't that scary even taking into account that this is a kids horror show and while there are some good things to be found in these first two episodes those are very few and far between in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in these first two episodes in this very post and since this is only my first impressions I won't be giving this show a rating however if i'm still watching this show when this shows final episode airs or even is released online and then i'll give this a show review and a rating as well.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this post well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post from the official Disney fandom wiki page , the official Goosebumps fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very post being the wonderful the official Goosebumps fandom wiki page since all of the images that are currently up and and on the official Goosebumps fandom wiki page are all fairly high in quality and as well as being really fairly freaking high in definition.