Rated: PG
Starring: Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Jude Law.
December 17th, The day Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events came out to theaters, I was sitting at home hanging out with my friends and we were gonna check this movie out the first day it came out - but at the last minute my friend bail's out and I had no ride to go, weeks past by and still have no money to see this film, untill yesterday when my family and myself finally got to see this awesome/creepy flick.
Now some of you are might thinking your just saying this because it's a 'Jim Carrey' movie and you like him, well actually that anit the reason, indeed I idolize the man but when I seen previews for this the first time it came to television I was blown away, I seen the behind the scene's on MTV and it was incredible on how the set of the movie was built, all of it was real - the street, houses, water, you name it - and it was definitely real.
Jim Carrey and Meryl Streep in “Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.”
The plot to this movie is IMO un-like any other, three orphans; Violet, Klaus, & Sunny Baudelaire are stranded when they find out that their parents have died in a horrible fire accident and are forced to live with Uncle/Cousin long story... Count Olaf (Jim Carrey)
p And when they arrive their you might think he is such a great fella but once those doors close he is a changed man, a creepy/evil man that is. The three oprhans move to various relatives that they don't know when they find out Coutn Olaf wants to kill them and they encounter lots of stuff on the way, as well as different charecters played by non-other then Count Olaf himself in other words is in 'actor', I don't want to give anything away since you really have to check the movie out to get to know it better.
Based on the three popular Lemony Snicket books, this though is all squeezed in one movie and if you read the books then you would know when you watch the movie of what I am talking about. The acting was great, The kids potrayed a good part in the movie in one scene Count Oalf backslaps Klaus in the face in which was different in some people's eyes because Jim diden't really play the 'funny/comical' guy we all know in this he was an evil fella with mixtures of comcialness in him. His improving on stuff was halrious as wall as Meryl Streep playing a curious lady, and Jude Law narrating throughout the movie was well put together and really was great.
If your a fan of the books, and a fan of Jim Carrey (like myself) this is worth a look, I myself have never read any of the books - but this movie did catch my eye, and I will indeed pick this right up once it hit's stores on DVD, All in all a very good movie in my eyes I enjoyed it and I woulden't mind watching it again.
Out of 5 Stars
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