Date of Viewing: 12-23-2004
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is rated PG. It is a movie for kids about kids. If every time you’re inner child comes out you scold it for running about and laughing, do not go see this movie. However, if your inner child runs amuck in your head and you decide "ah what the hell your only young once" and join it, then this is a wonderfully splendid movie to see. My main mistake going into this movie was thinking that "A Series of Unfortunate Events" was the same thing as a series of unfortunate coincidences. That line of thought was proved to be wrong. Count Olaf caused, well, as far as I can tell, all the unfortunate events. This aside, I thought it movie was excellent. Acting was very well done. I'm not sure but I figure some effects were done with Sunny, the smallest of the Baudelaire children, since I find it hard to believe that you can get a child of that age to cross their legs in a very sophisticated manner on cue, but hell, it was cute anyway! There really are too many unfortunate events to ramble on about so for once I’ll leave out a majority of details. The only thing I found kind of disappointing about it is that with all the events that took place, and the constant change of scenery, to me it made the movie seem to go by to fast.
