Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Jim Carrey, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning, Kara Hoffman, Shelby Hoffman ... (see more) , Jude Law , Timothy Spall , Catherine O'Hara , Billy Connolly , Meryl Streep
The story of intelligent, charming, but unlucky siblings Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire and their adventures in the big city after a house-fire leaves them orphaned. When the children are sent to live with distant relative, Count Olaf, they realize that he has dastardly designs on the Baudelaire... (read more) The story of intelligent, charming, but unlucky siblings Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire and their adventures in the big city after a house-fire leaves them orphaned. When the children are sent to live with distant relative, Count Olaf, they realize that he has dastardly designs on the Baudelaire family fortune.
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PG, 1 hr. 53 min.
Directed by:
Brad Silberling
Release Date: Dec 17, 2004
DVD Release Date: Apr 26, 2005
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I love this story. characters, music, desing. Tragedy always after the Baudelaire children. Is a terrible shame there's no going to be a secuel
I got distracted and was not paying attention to the movie when I saw this. Thus, the experience was a disaster! How unfortunate?
Great movie. First movie I was able to tolerate Jim Carrey in. And I now want a biting sunshine baby too. Who wants to give birth to one for me?
Not really funny at all and doesn't have a lot to capture your interest.
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A phantasmagoric family film with both bite and heart.full review
Heinrichs helps take your mind off the slack direction and the letdown of a climax, which ought to make the kiddies hurl Gummi Bears at the screen.full review
I think this one is a tune-up for the series, a trial run in which they figure out what works and what needs to be tweaked.full review
As it ticks by, laboriously, it leaves you feeling that you should be enjoying it more than you are.full review
Call the movie a pleasant near-miss, see it with your expectations lowered and by all means read the books again.full review
Against all odds it delights, using a compact script (by Robert Gordon), creative storytelling and the ripe comedic talents of a prodigious cast to transform written word into a near-perfect cinematic entity.full review
A more apt title might have been: Jim Carrey's Series of Outlandish Impersonations.full review
The movie, like the books, flatters children's innate sense that the world is not a perfect place and that anyone who insists otherwise is trying to sell you something.full review
Though the movie is a literate adventure story, the series' dark tone is lightened up in the film just enough to make one yearn for the darkly twisted witticisms and pervasive anxiety that made Handler's books uniquely appealing.full review
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