The Baudelaire children lead a cushy life of reading books, inventing, and biting. One day at the beach Mr. Poe (Timothy Spall) informs them of the unfortunate event of their house and parents burning down. They have been shuffled around to various unrelated relatives. At every turn, they are perused by their uncle Count Olaf (Jim Carrey,) who covets their inheritance. Trying to explain this to grownups is almost impossible.
Grate narration of the movie by Jude Law; he added a dimension that made you want to see what was happening next.
The books offer such great (terrible) resources for the movie. However, it was a bit much trying to cram three books into one movie. Each book has more than enough storyline for a movie. The events were taken out of order which watered down the pathos and everyone could tell this even if they did not read the books. The details are there but we miss the purpose and the lessons.
They chose just the right actors to play the Baudelaire brats, Violet, Klaus, and baby Sunny (Emily Browning, Liam Aiken, Kara, and Shelby Hoffman.) They did a great job of depicting the book characters. The addition of the underscore for Sunny was a notice touch.
The only real negative part of the movie was using Jim Carry in the place of Count Olaf. He was too exaggerated even for Jim Carry and distracted from the spookiness of the story. What should have been spooky but see though the person turned out to be too clownish?
They picked an excellent Uncle Monty (Billy Connolly) born and brought up in Glasgow, Scotland, looks and sounds like a cross between John Cleese and Sean Connery.
During the ending credits, some great drawings make you think that this would have made a great cartoon series.
Grate narration of the movie by Jude Law; he added a dimension that made you want to see what was happening next.
The books offer such great (terrible) resources for the movie. However, it was a bit much trying to cram three books into one movie. Each book has more than enough storyline for a movie. The events were taken out of order which watered down the pathos and everyone could tell this even if they did not read the books. The details are there but we miss the purpose and the lessons.
They chose just the right actors to play the Baudelaire brats, Violet, Klaus, and baby Sunny (Emily Browning, Liam Aiken, Kara, and Shelby Hoffman.) They did a great job of depicting the book characters. The addition of the underscore for Sunny was a notice touch.
The only real negative part of the movie was using Jim Carry in the place of Count Olaf. He was too exaggerated even for Jim Carry and distracted from the spookiness of the story. What should have been spooky but see though the person turned out to be too clownish?
They picked an excellent Uncle Monty (Billy Connolly) born and brought up in Glasgow, Scotland, looks and sounds like a cross between John Cleese and Sean Connery.
During the ending credits, some great drawings make you think that this would have made a great cartoon series.