May 29, 2005
Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events DVD
Liam Aiken .... Klaus Baudelaire
Emily Browning .... Violet Baudelaire
Kara and Shelby Hoffman .... Sunny Baudelaire
Jude Law .... Lemony Snicket (voice)
Timothy Spall .... Mr. Poe
Catherine O'Hara .... Justice Strauss
Billy Connolly .... Uncle Monty
Meryl Streep .... Aunt Josephine
Jim Carrey .... Count Olaf
Luis Guzmán .... Bald, Thickset Henchman
Jamie Harris .... Hook-Handed Henchman
Jennifer Coolidge .... White Faced Woman #1
Jane Adams .... White Faced Woman #2
Cedric the Entertainer .... The Detective
John Dexter .... Gustav
Wayne Flemming .... Captain Sam
Craig Ferguson .... Person of Indeterminate Gender (uncredited)
Dustin Hoffman .... The Critic (uncredited)
I don't know why, but it seems as if I'm going through a movie drought right now. The past few movies I've watched have been underwhelming.
Despite the appearance of some pretty big named talent in this movie (one gets the feeling that they agreed to be in it so that their kids or grandkids could see them in something), it's not really very entertaining.
Unless you like Jim Carrey's schtick. In which case, you'll be entertained.
I felt like the movie was way too long at 1 hr and 45 minutes. It wasn't interesting enough to keep my attention. Instead of using the main source material from the first three books and aspects of the other books, why not just focus on one plot? I think I would've been more intrigued by that. Of course, then we wouldn't have been able to see Jim Carrey "act" like a whole bunch of different characters.
The DVD had a featurette about Jim Carrey and another featurette that dealt with costumes for his characters. There was also a small feature that showed how to the director cast the children. I didn't even bother with the commentary. The deleted scenes were fun. The outtakes were mainly Jim Carrey's improvising stuff, so you can guess my thoughts on that.
I wouldn't bother renting this unless you've read the books and want to see how it compares.
Posted by xinh at May 29, 2005 11:26 PMI really don't agree with that.
It was a terrific movie and I prefered it to follow the books that best it could.
All the actors put out a great performance and because of the movie I read all 12 books out at the moment. (11 at the time of the movie)
mmmmm, ha! emily! i went to the same site as you!
you see, we're in english and we're looking at movie reviews :P
i agree w/ emily actually, Series Of Unfortunate Events was a great movie and the extras were insightful and terrific, nothing 2 do with the 3 or so hours or carrey ranting at all
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