A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)'s comments

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sammysin

Carrey is phenomenal in this. I was extremely surprised by how good it was.

Very underrated and well done. Loved it.

11 years 4 months ago

It's an uneven film. Visually it's fantastic, creative, great attention to detail and scenery, nice quirkiness, great direction. Feels like Wes Anderson in that respect. And a fantastic performance by Carrey. So three thumbs up for all that.

However, and it's a big however, there are some major problems. The plot has substantial holes, utterly illogical actions take place to further the plot, and the dialog is simply.. sub-par. The kids are introduced as brilliant - but only shine at a few points where the plot demands a brilliancy.

So it's fantastic as a kids movie, they won't notice the deficits that much.
However adults probably find themselves muttering "Well, that's not how that works at all" regarding diverse matters such as spoiler

9 years 8 months ago

Mustafacc

Great movie definitely a must watch, it's a shame they squeezed the 8 books into a single a movie i feel like they could do much more with this series.

10 years 5 months ago

Nastya

Pretty great movie, a bit twisted plot, but isn't easy to jam a series of books in one film.

7 years 2 months ago

IreneAdler

A lot better than I though it would be. Very entertaining! Jim Carrey was absolutely fantastic, so was Meryl Streep... and many others. Loved the kids, the little one was hilarious!

Visually fascinating and really, really funny!

Not so sure about the abrupt ending but other than that I'd absolutely recommend it!

8 years 4 months ago