The Spiderwick Chronicles is a nifty little kid's film that parents alike may find enjoyable. The film is based on a pretty good series of books, each only 100-150 pages long. The five books in the series were divided into one film, but it didn't...
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The Spiderwick Chronicles is a nifty little kid's film that parents alike may find enjoyable. The film is based on a pretty good series of books, each only 100-150 pages long. The five books in the series were divided into one film, but it didn't make the same mistake as A Series of Unfortunate Events, that movie clogged three films into an hour and a half. This mostly takes the basic story and makes it into one day of adventure for Jared, Simon, and Malorie Grace. After moving in with their mom to the old run down Spiderwick estate, owned by their great great aunt, the three youngsters discover that there are magical creatures all around them. The "goblins" and "ogres" in this film aren't scary at all, and are just annoying ugly creatures, but I suppose that's good since this is just a kid's storybook fairytale film. Nick Nolte is more just like a cameo in this film, he's only in it for a few minutes, he plays the supposedly scary Mulgrath. Mary Louise Parker is pretty good here as the mom and David Straithan is impressive as Arthur Spiderwick. The "kryptonite" to these goblins is pretty stupid, what happened to silver bullets. Even with the large amount of tomatoe sauce in this movie, it's pretty good and parents will probably be able to stand it, and the kids will have a good time, so why not?