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Lemony Snicket: Series Of Unfortunate [2004]
starring: Jim Carrey, Jude Law, Emily Browning, Liam Aiken, Kara Hoffman
directed by: Brad Silberling

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 7 to 11 days Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Parental Guidance
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5051188133436
Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
Label: Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: May 27, 2005
Running Time: 103 minutes
Studio: Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Sales Rank: 4183

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
If you spliced Charles Addams, Dr. Seuss, Charles Dickens, Edward Gorey, and Roald Dahl into a Tim Burtonesque landscape, you'd surely come up with something like Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Many critics (in mostly mixed reviews) wondered why Burton didn't direct this comically morbid adaptation of the first three books in the popular series by Daniel Handler (a.k.a. "Lemony Snicket," played here by Jude Law and seen only in silhouette) instead of TV and Casper veteran Brad Silberling, but there's still plenty to recommend the playfully bleak scenario, in which three resourceful orphans thwart their wicked, maliciously greedy relative Count Olaf (Jim Carrey), who subjects them to... well, a series of unfortunate events. Along the way they encounter a herpetologist uncle (Billy Connolly), an anxious aunt (Meryl Streep) who's afraid of everything, and a variety of fantastical hazards and mysterious clues, some of which remain unresolved. Given endless wonders of art direction, costume design, and cinematography, Silberling's direction is surprisingly uninspired (in other words, the books are better), but when you add a throwaway cameo by Dustin Hoffman, Law's amusing narration, and Carrey's over-the-top antics, the first Lemony movie suggests a promising franchise in the making. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Great narration - over the top acting
The Baudelaire children lead a cushy life of reading books, inventing, and biting. One day at the beach Mr. Poe informs them of the unfortunate event of their house and parents burning down. They are then shuffled around to various unrelated relatives. At every turn they are perused by their uncle Count Olaf, 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 story line for a movie. The events were taken out ... Read More:

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- how awesome!
What a totally great and brilliant film!! Everything about this was positive from the cast, the acting, the plot, the humour and the drama. I loved the weirdness and surrealism too and the fact that Jim Carrey featured in it heavily did of course make it even better!!!I really cant speak highly enough of this film, all I can say is its a one of a kind that you have to see to understand, so please watch it!!

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- This is an artful piece of direction
I'm not very familiar with the books of Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) but, even by judging this film alone, I'm going to say that his work appeals to me a lot more than Harry Potter. The kids enjoyed it a lot and after watching it they wanted a second round.

The story centers on three adorable and gifted children who're abruptly orphaned when their parents die in a mysterious fire. Their search for a new home and well-meaning new guardians is constantly interfered by the malicious Count Orlaf (Jim Carrey) who hunts after the Bauedelaires' family fortune. The main reason why this film is so genuinely unsettling is because the story relentlessly uncovers the deepest fear of every child, namely the death of parents and the large ... Read More:

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- A bit like Harry Potter without the magic ...
My first impression of the tone with which both the books and the film are advertised was that it was a bit like J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series without the magical/supernatural elements. E.g. a story about teenage/child heroes who have to cope with truly horrible and strange enemies and events, shot through with some very dark and ironic humour.

Having watched the film this feeling was reinforced.

The introductory sequence shows cute little dancing and singing birds, animals and elves, and then you cut to a warning that this is not a cheerful happy story at all. The author, Lemony Snickett, voiced by Jude Law, warns that it is a tale of three orphans who experience a series of unfortunate events ...

The ... Read More:

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- A WORD TO THE WISE...
If, for some reason you were looking for a cutesy-filled adventure like The Littlest Elf, I am sorry to say you have picked up the wrong DVD.

Before you rush home and eagerly slip this into your player, I have to warn you that this tale contains none of the enjoyments found in a movie about a small, irritable cute man with big ears.

In this movie you are most likely to encounter a greedy, villianous uncle, a phrase which here means Count Olaf, a fortune, a Deadly Vipor, a really bad play and a group of bloodthirsty leeches.

It is my lot in life to record the unfortunate events of the three Baudelaire orphans, who have had the most rotten luck since they were told by Mr. Poe that their parents had ... Read More:

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