Kenneth Green

Huge fan of the book and of Neil Gaiman as an author so I instantly fell in love with the TV adaptation from the very first episode of Season 1. The whole of Season 1 did not disappoint and as I have the DVD I have watched it a fair number of times since. I became quite annoyed at Bryan Fuller and Michael Green (the showrunners for Season 1) for being so difficult over Season 2 which, for a while, looked that it may not happen but thank the stars that Amazon/Starz pushed ahead with Jesse Alexander for the second season. Again I have it on DVD and I am on my first watch of it, currently on Episode 4. Thanks to the brilliant source writing and guiding hand of Neil Gaiman Season 2 is every bit as good as Season 1. Fellow Brits Ricky Whittle & Ian McShane together with the beautiful Australian Emily Browning are superb and Pablo Schreiber is just hilarious as the down on his luck Leprechaun. Bryan Fuller and Michael Green may have laid the tone and pace of the first series but it is has lost nothing now that they are gone. The EXCELLENT news is that it HAS been renewed for a third season and as long as they do not mess around and ruin it (as some Networks tend to do to successful shows) then the ride will continue.

I am a huge fan of action films and I have watched so many I forget them all but this one is just so bad I will not forget it in a hurry. I like action films that at have a percentage of reality about them and being a Brit I can 100% say that nothing in this movie could ever happen here. Now some movies are so bad that they are good but this is not one of them, counting the number of hairs you have in a square inch of your arm is better use of your time than watching this.

Anyone who takes the show seriously (it is a comedy after all) or moans about being offended by its sex and profanity really should go and be a nun or monk somewhere remote. Real people swear (shock). people have sex (horror), we do not live in the dark ages so deal with it.

Mediocre at best, unfunny and not even close to the original Men In Black. Sequels with out the original stars rarely make it and Will Smith made M.I.B.

Such a let down when compared to the first movie. The plot was paper thin and relied on the same old formula used in family friendly monster movies which was lazy and without imagination both from the writer/s and the director. Jack Black only appeared at the end in a small token role and Odeya Rush (as Hannah Stine) was not part of the movie. Overall sloppy and ill-conceived, and it has more than likely killed any chance of further Goosebumps movies.

An opportunity missed. I am a massive fan of anything Simon Pegg does and the Cornetto Trilogy starring Pegg and Nick Frost is pure and utter genius. Slaughterhouse Rulez is the first movie starring Pegg & Frost that I am utterly disappointed by. There was a huge opportunity here to make a rollicking, funny and saucy horror comedy but Slaughterhouse fails completely. First of all it is just not funny at all and it is also not horrific. When you consider the subject matter, teenagers at a very exclusive boarding school in the middle of rural England, incompetent teachers, drink, drugs, monsters and fracking, all the ingredients are there for one hell of a funny film, even more so when it stars Pegg & Frost but it fails on all levels. I hate to say this, and I could never imagine I would be saying this about any comedy starring Simon Pegg, but he was terrible in this and Nick Frost only works well as Simon Peggs slightly dim but lovable sidekick. In this movie Frost is simply a bit character who appears here and there and does not contribute to the movie ether in terms of the story or by being funny. It is a good idea for a movie that is badly written and badly directed. The storyline is non existent, the characters are bland and sanitized, and it lacks the two things it should have had by the bucket full which is horror and good saucy british comedy. If this had been a true Pegg / Frost movie which they had written and/or collaborated on then there is no doubt it would have been a very funny and clever movie. Now I am sure that there are those who will disagree with me and that is fine but this is my personal review and as I have been a avid fan of Simon Pegg since the middle 1990's Channel 4 sitcom Spaced I know what Simon Pegg is capable of and this movie falls far short of his usual greatness. Update 28/07/2021 Having watched this a further two times (including last night) since I wrote my review, I can say that I completely stand by it. It's such a shame as Pegg/Frost have well and truly lost thier magic. Lets be honest, they only work best when Pegg is playing the lead and Frost is playing that slightly dim side kick. I mean look at Truth Seekers" on Amazon Prime - cancelled after just one season, and no wonder, it was as bad as Slaughterhouse Rulez and for exactly the same reasons. Pegg hardly appeared in it at all leaving frost to be that main lead and Frost just is not main lead material. I can only think that these days Pegg is too busy chasing after the scraps that his pretend buddy Tom Cruise throws at him and occasionally does the odd thing with Frost to keep their friendship going. Poor show, very very poor show.