Disney's Haunted Mansion Review

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You get more out of life when
you go out to a movie. I

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know. I'm with patrol. Hello
everybody, and welcome back to the box

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office. I'm Jeff Johnson from a
film by podcast joining me today. My

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guests, I guess I could say
ghost host David Burns Hope and the astral

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projection of Dayton Johnson from Docking Bay
seventy seven podcast. Hello, Dayton,

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Greetings. We are going to have
ourselves a spirited, spoiler free conversation about

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the latest retelling of theme park ride
turned film Disney's Haunted Mansion. To rid

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a mansion of ghosts, you'll need
a priest, queen, all the help.

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We can get a psychic people too
here and I told you she's good.

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It's a Darting Rooms scientist. Is
anybody else seeing this of the story?

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And above all a mother anything to
protect my son will. But we'll

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call it three doors what sorry robbery
Disney's Wanted Mansion Rady pg. Thirteen to

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get tickets now quite the collection of
creepy and crazy characters, Dayton, let's

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talk about this, uh the celebrity
cast? Sure, well, you know

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I remember we're hearing when they were
making it and at first, my whole

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family is kind of like, I
know they're gonna try this again. And

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then they started naming off people that
we're going to be in it. You

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know, Owen Wilson, who has
a long history with Disney through the Pixar

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movies in Cars, and then you
add an Asokatano herself, Razario Dawson,

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and then Jamie Lee Curtis. You're
kind of like, Okay, I have

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to see this now just because of
the people that are going to be at

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it. So yeah, that was
They were all really good, and they

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were all I think they're well used. You know. I liked uh I

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liked their choices. He knows who
they who they picked for the roles,

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Dave, who's the who's the standout
here? Well? I love the Keith

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Stanfield. I think he is good, great in everything he does, and

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I loved him in this. I
thought he did a really good job.

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Yeah, he brought a lot of
emotion to a movie that I didn't expect

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that. Yep. I think this
is clearly his movie. He steals the

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show throughout all three acts. In
my opinion, I loved his performance,

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loved his character uh any any frightful
performances, And I don't mean that in

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a good way. I don't think
so. I you know, uh,

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I think even a little boy his
name's eluding me at the moment. Yes,

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I think he did a really good
job too. You know, love

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Jay Stillon in this. Yeah,
I this was. When you're going to

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a movie like this, you don't
necessarily expect um wrong performances. But I

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think they everybody did a pretty good
job. I think the only thing if

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I was gonna say anything about you
know, if I'm gonna be negative in

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any any regard for it, I
would say I feel like Rosario Dawson,

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who I love, was critically underused. I mean maybe, I mean we

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we guys, we just we just
wouldn't seen it. I feel like,

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am I wrong? Like I feel
like she was only had like maybe ten

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lines of dialogue in the whole movie. He is underused. But again,

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this is this is ah Ben's story, like Keith Stanfield's. You know,

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it's about him, so they focus
a lot on him. So that's why

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she kind of takes that backseat.
Uh yeah, they probably could have used

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her a little bit more because Rosario
Dawson is awesome, but um yeah,

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it wasn't really her story. All
right. Well, Dayton, listen,

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I know you have been to Disney
World more times than Walt, so I'm

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gonna hold off on you for a
second. Jave. You and I went

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into this never having seen the other
the other versions that Disney has put out.

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We never rode the ride, so
we went into this pretty fresh.

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Tell me you know your thoughts on
the story. UM. I thought it

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was about what I expected it to
be. Um, you know, it

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was entertaining. Um. I did
get a little bored a couple of times,

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but yes I did. I caught
myself closing my eyes a couple of

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times. Um, but it is
exactly what I expected to be. And

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to to to correct you, Jeff, I have rode the ride. Um,

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I've never seen the other version of
the film or anything like that,

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but I have written the ride and
there are a lot of elements I fought

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thought were just like the ride.
So if you've been to Disney, we're

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already been to Disneyland, and you
you've written this, you're going to probably

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enjoy this movie. I think,
having having no background on the film,

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I thought it was it was fun. It Uh, it had it had

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some some good jumps, you know, family friendly jumps. I would say,

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uh, we don't have time to
get into whether, day whether Dave

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was closing his eyes because he was
tired or just scared. But Dayton,

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I know you've seen everything on this
on this movie, You've seen all the

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other versions. So uh, let's
let's hear from you. Uh you know,

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how how the how the story do
for you? So when it comes

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to okay, I thought that the
ghosts they focused on, they did them

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well you know, um, but
really in our house, it's our daughter

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that is the Haunted Mansion expert,
and she was literally on the way home

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calling out stuff I missed completely.
So there's a lot of things I caught

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and a lot of things I enjoyed, different versions of you know, grim

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grinning ghosts that they did and things
like that. But what I thought was

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really cool is that both Crupt Manner
and the Haunted Mansion are nods to both

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the Disneyland version and the World version. So they did a good job doing

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that, and you know, it's
what you expected. I kind of thought

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that there was a little bit more
of a story than I was reading online,

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So I like that, you know, the whole Bend's storyline. I

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really enjoyed a little bit more depth
to what I was acting to rereally surface.

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But no, they the only the
only complaints I had was some of

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the ghosts they that they had in
the movie. They didn't give names to

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which I recognize their names we're gonna
they're supposed to be, but ultimately didn't

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matter, you know, like the
UM there's just certain ones that are very

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prominent on the ride that have names
that they weren't given names in the credits.

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But they did a good job overall
with UM making it feel like you

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were on the ride for sure.
You know. There's definitely a lot of

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super nods to things like that in
there, and I think they did a

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good job making it fun and making
you feel like, you know, hey,

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I've been on the ride now,
or at least I can pull things

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from that. Everything from the wallpaper
to the gargoyles to just things like that

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are all ripped right from the ride. Speaking of ghosts, Dave, did

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you have a favorite and uh,
keep it spoiler free obviously, but favorite

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ghost, Dave, Well, she's
in the trailer, so it's it's the

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Bride. I loved. I loved
that one absolutely of it. Dayton very

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scary moments with that one. Um, honestly, I think it was,

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well, they call him credit or
Crump, but it's hat Box Hattie,

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hat Box Ghost, who is a
great character. And they really did that

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ghost justice with how I looked and
his voice and everything. Of course Jared

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Letto did a good job making him
even scarier. But yeah, I thought

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they did a great job with Hattie
for sure. Yeah. I had no

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idea Jared Letto was even in this
until I'm sitting there watching the credits.

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I'm like, Jared Letto, I
was like, clearly he's one of the

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the Poltergeists. But I don't know. I thought the you know again,

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I don't have the background that you
guys do with Disney World, Disneyland and

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Dayton with the other iterations. But
I gotta say, you know, I

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got what I expected. I you
know, I can understand why it's PG.

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Thirteen, which was surprising at first, but uh, you know,

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when you got a bride that's known
for you know, lopping heads off and

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you know husbands, yes, yeah, killing all our husbands and some other

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adult themes, I can understand that. But I could see I could see

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you taking younger kids to this.
Uh, Dayton, I know, I

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know your daughter's much older, but
she's five or six. You still taking

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her to see something like this.
The Hot and Mansion became one of her

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favorite rides very early on, like
when she was seven and eight. It

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would become a guide. So there
it is. Yeah, all right,

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Dave, your eyes are open right
now. So I'm gonna go ahead and

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ask see it, stream it or
skip it. I'm going to say stream

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it. I feel like this is
something you catch on Disney Plus. So

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yeah, all right, Dayton.
Okay, So I struggled with this a

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little bit. Honestly, if you're
a big fan of the ride, then

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I think go see it because you'll
be a lot of things that will are

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easier to notice on the big screen. The music was good, the sound

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was good. You know. I
think it has some good images that work

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a little bit better on big screen. But I think in general, stream

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it is probably a safe bet.
I'm gonna be the odd man out here.

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I'm gonna say see it. Uh, guess what you went to the

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theater? You're heading to the theater. You're probably not gonna good tickets?

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Uh for Barbie because it's still exploding
everywhere. Uh so you know what,

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don't go home, you know,
check out, check out Disney's on a

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mansion. I I had fun with
it. I thought it was I thought

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it was a pretty good one.
So I'm gonna say, see it,

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have some fun. You know,
everyone's going back to the movie theaters.

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We talked about that when we uh
Dayton, we talked about that when we

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did Oppenheimer last week, and you
know, I know I talked about it

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on on Barbie. It's just great
seeing everyone back in the theaters having having

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a good time. So I say, see this one, You're not gonna

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You're not gonna, you know,
be upset. So until next time.

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I don't know if I'm buying the
tickets because uh, because you know Daton's

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here here. You know, he'll
buy the popcorn, maybe Dave. Maybe

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Dave maybe tickets, but maybe I'm
just going I don't know, but we'll

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we'll until then, we'll uh you
know, we'll see you, see you in h