Lemony Snicket's A series of Unfortunate Events

2004 • Dakika 107

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Dear Viewer If you enjoy movies filled with singing rabbits, exploding spaceships, or cheerleaders, you are holding the wrong dvd entirely. This movie is extremely alarming, an expression which here means "a thrilling misadventure involving three ingenious orphans and a villionous actor named Count Olaf (Jim Carrey) who wants their enormous fortune." It includes a suspicious fire, delicious pasta, Jim Carrey, poorly behaved looches, Billy Connolly, an incredibly deadly viper, Meryl Streep, and the voice of an imposter named Jude Law. The only things that could make such a spectatcle more upsetting are special features, such a scommentary by me or outtakes involving nervous laughter. I am bound to continue my research into the lives of the Baudelelaire orphans, but you are free to seek lighter fare, like bleu cheese fondue. With all due respect, Lemony Snicket.

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I do not know who is the perpetrator here, but they deserve a good spanking after this monstrosity. This could have been such a great series of films, just as delightful as the books were and still are (the entire collection currently resides in my shelf.) But alas, it was not to be, and some idiot came up with the notion that combining THREE books together and slapping on a crude, cheap ending would be a smash hit. I do not like that idiot. I advise anyone who has intrest in this to just read the books.

I've never read the books to be fair so I can't say as to how accurate a portrayal it may be, but regardless I feel qualified to rate this movie independently from the book series. I found it boring most of the time with the odd visually pleasing scene or funny line. The kids acting wasn't bad at all but I was distracted by Jim Carey being Jim Carey. The character he played came off as annoying and I don't know if it was Carey or the way he was written. The story itself is odd which can be good but here I thought it was more off-putting than anything else.

The books were a beautiful piece of breathtaking literature and this monstrosity of a movie hacked away at them until there was nothing left but a few out of order scenes, terribly cast characters, badly costumed actors, and over all a movie that was a disgrace to the author. if you want to see a great version see the Netflix series it will serve as a much better film version of the amazing books but it you want to get the full experience read the books