Unfortunately, Lemony Snicket film could be sharper
The plight of the ever-beleaguered Baudelaire orphans is finally exposed on the big screen in ''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events" (2004).
Jim Carrey's scheming guardian Count Olaf is of course the big draw, but director Brad Silberling (''Moonlight Mile") also serves his adaptation well with his casting choices for the kids: soulful Emily Browning as Violet and poised-beyond-his-years Liam Aiken (''Stepmom") as Klaus.
Alas, the rest of the film isn't nearly this sharply conceived. Carrey's wicked comic meanderings had more bite in ''The Grinch," and even the movie's design, while eye-catching, has something of a patchwork feel.
The animation and Halloweenish world music that run over the end credits are downright hypnotic and do deserve special mention. But all in all, the events laid out here are less funny ha-ha than funny strange.
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Jim Carrey's scheming guardian Count Olaf is of course the big draw, but director Brad Silberling (''Moonlight Mile") also serves his adaptation well with his casting choices for the kids: soulful Emily Browning as Violet and poised-beyond-his-years Liam Aiken (''Stepmom") as Klaus.
Alas, the rest of the film isn't nearly this sharply conceived. Carrey's wicked comic meanderings had more bite in ''The Grinch," and even the movie's design, while eye-catching, has something of a patchwork feel.
The animation and Halloweenish world music that run over the end credits are downright hypnotic and do deserve special mention. But all in all, the events laid out here are less funny ha-ha than funny strange.
To read the rest of the article Click Here
Talk to ya soon,
Donnie Hoover
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