Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Pros: Jim Carrey and Meryl Streep. Entertaining movie.
Cons: Too many snakes slithering around during one section. Some actors were under used.

I first read about the books in A Series of Unfortunate Events a few years ago. The books sounded interesting and I wanted to read them. I only recently read T he Bad Beginning, the first book. I first saw ...

Pros: Streep, over-all feel of the movie stays consistent with the books.
Cons: Jim Carrey.

I'd been hearing about this series of books for quite some time and finally caved in recently and bought book the first through book the sixth of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. They're very short and easy reads, being designed ...

Pros: Art Design, Some non-book plot twists, Carrey ALMOST won me over...
Cons: Carrey needs to be reined in; too convoluted, even for fans...

As a fan of the Series of Unfortunate Events...series...I was apprehensive about the prospects of a film series. I wanted to see the intriguing world of the Baudelaire orphans on the big screen, but didn't want to see an adaptation like the Harry Potter ...

Pros: Carrey at first, the children, narrator
Cons: weak adaptation of story, some really long lulls in story, turns out to be boring

Jim Carrey's recent film, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is an unfortunate adaptation of a set of novels pen by Daniel Handler. I hope that the novels were better than the screenplay for the film, and from how much I have heard ...

Pros: Violet, Klaus and Sunny once knew love and happiness...
Cons: But then their lives took a turn for the worse.

It can be a wonderful thing to sneak away from the daily routine, slip into a half-full theatre, and settle back to enjoy a lovely movie. This, dear reader, was sadly not my fate today. While I did vary my usual routine; and the theatre I settled into ...

Pros: Hmmm....not much
Cons: Meh....

Jim Carrey has always been somewhat interesting to me. I have really, really liked some of his stuff and completely loathed some of his other stuff. I personally think that slapstick comedy is his specialty and that he is one of the finest slapstick ...

Pros: Looks like a Tim Burton movie
Cons: Why is Count Olaf so bad?

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events is based on the popular book series for young adults. While this may not compare to the likes of Harry Potter, it actually turned out to be a neat movie, though it was quite dark. I would not ...

Pros: cast; great dark humor; captivating look; music; true to books
Cons: not everyone enjoys dark fantasy with humor; ending not satisfying

I don’t always enjoy Jim Carrey. Sometimes I love him like in The Truman Show, The Man in the Moon and this 2004 children’s movie Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. He’s the perfect, black-hearted villain who ...

Pros: good casting and cinematography
Cons: amazingly bad story

This is the worst trainwreck I've seen in a long, long time. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events takes every advantage a film can have and squanders it on creative choices that suck. Imagine starting with a production budget of $140 ...

Pros: Jude Law, set design, Uncle Monty
Cons: lots of changes from the books, corny subtitles for Sunny

The end of 2004 marked the first holiday movie season after Lord of the Rings, which meant that there couldn’t possibly be a film that would create the same level of anticipation in me. Still, there were several movies in which I had at least a ...

Pros: Uhh. Meryl Streep, closing credit sequence
Cons: Jim Carrey, Mr. Jim Carrey, Carrey (James), JC, rhymes with Dim Dairy. Much else.

I can imagine how elated the producers, casting agents, and director of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events were when they first snagged “comic genius” Jim Carrey for their adaptation of Daniel Handler's books ...

Pros: Darkly humorous with just the right amount of irreverence.
Cons: Carrey goes over the top at times, certain gags overdone.

It constantly surprises people when I tell them that I've never read a Harry Potter book. Being the voracious reader that I am, it amazes them that I haven't glommed on to the most popular series of children's fiction in recent years. Not that I have any ...

Pros: Beautiful design, great acting and good score...
Cons: ...but the plot is somewhat of a confused mess.

Turning a successful book into a movie is a tricky business yet for some reason still insanely popular. Turning a cult book into a movie is by its very nature even more complicated. Bridget Jones' Diary was lucky to escape unscathed- anyone who ...

Pros: solid performances from Carrey and the kids, excellent cinematography/set design, really really dark
Cons: many things changed from the books, probably too dark/depressing for many

On the whole, popular and bestselling books that get turned into movies end up being disappointments, not to mention the times where the movie version of a book has only vague references to things that happened in the book. This, of course, done in the ...

Pros: Beautiful background, Streep and Carey are pretty decent
Cons: Slow moving plot, child actors seem apathetic, kind of depressing

This film is based on a popular book series, with which I was unfamiliar until the film was introduced. There seemed to be a lot of hype about this movie before it came out, but I have heard very little afterwards. I refrained from reading any reviews ...