YMMV / The Haunted Mansion (2003)

• Adorkable: From the way he presents his anniversary gift to Sara, and by how he's always cracking cringeworthy jokes, Jim comes off as a very adorkable person indeed.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Laying his racist Knight Templarism aside, does Ramsley actually care for Master Gracey in his own misguided way, or is he just a Manipulative Bastard who's using the clueless nobleman?
• Awesome Music: For all its faults, the tie-in album The Haunted Mansion: Haunted Hits largely consists of awesome covers of Halloween classics.
  • Two versions of the Signature Song, "Grim Grinning Ghosts": an acapella version by the singing busts from the movie, and a dark cabaret version by the Barenaked Ladies.
  • Morris Day's cover of Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me," which some consider to not only be better than the original but the definitive cover.
  • Raven-Symoné's hip-hop take on the Stevie Wonder classic "Superstition." While Raven was humble enough to admit that nobody was going to beat the original, hers was a huge hit on Disney Channel.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: What happens when Ramsley curses the family. The dragon comes right out of nowhere, attacks the "wrong" enemy, and when it's all over is never spoken of again. Bonus points for having no previous set up within the film. This was due to concerns that the original ending would be too similar to the Pirates of the Caribbean film already put out by Disney.
• Can't Un-Hear It: Jennifer Tilly's distinct voice for Leota works out evenly, when compared to the rest of the film.
• Catharsis Factor: Ramsley being Dragged Off to Hell once he's exposed is downright satisfying.
• Common Knowledge: A lot of people assume that the film was made to capitalize on the success of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, another film based on a Disney theme park ride — but the two films actually came out in the same year, with Mansion debuting barely five months after Black Pearl.
• Continuity Lockout: A lot of screen time is spent on nods to things that happen in the ride, like the breathing door and the Hitchhiking Ghosts — but the Haunted Mansion ride does not exist outside of the United States and Japan, so those nods were lost on international audiences.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Madame Leota.
• Ham and Cheese: Terence Stamp constantly speaks in an extremely over-the-top tone throughout the movie and is clearly enjoying every minute of it. Whether you find it entertaining or not is debatable, but you can't deny that it's memorable.
• Harsher in Hindsight: As pointed out by Some Jerk with a Camera, the film's use of When You Coming Home, Dad? is soured when, four or five years after the movie came out, the mortgage market crashed meaning that the Evers' bubble might come crashing down.
• Signature Scene: Based on YouTube comments, there are four obvious contenders for the best-remembered scene.
  • The scene where Jim is frightened by the telephone call and his distorted reflection in the mirror.
  • Gracey's reunion with Elizabeth.
  • Ramsley being Dragged Off to Hell.
  • Jim's attempts to insist to Ezra, Emma, and his kids that everything is a hallucination brought on by food poisoning (and Emma the cook's reaction to this) after a conversation with Madame Leota.

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