The
Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
Starring: David Strathairn, Freddie Highmore, Sarah Bolger,
Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Martin Short, Joan Plowright, Izabella
Miko, Andrew McCarthy
Director: Mark Waters
U.S. Opening Date: February 15th, 2008
THEY SAY
From the beloved best-selling series of books comes
The Spiderwick Chronicles, a fantasy adventure.
When the three Grace children - troubled Jared; his
bookish twin, Simon; and their sister, Mallory, a fencing jock - move to
the ancient Spiderwick mansion, they are at first none-too-enchanted by
the rundown Victorian ... until they discover a Brownie, an enchanted
creature, living in the walls. They soon find a book - Arthur Spiderwick's
Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You - that will open their
eyes to the invisible, odd, and sometimes dangerous world of dragons and
boggarts, phookas and fairies, sprites and goblins that is all around
them. When they cross paths with Mulgarath, an ogre, they realize quickly
that he will stop at nothing to get his hands on the Field Guide. Based on
the bestselling series of books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black.
WE SAY
The box office quest for the next
Harry Potter or
Chronicles of Narnia continues as yet another obscure set of
children’s books are adapted for the screen with loads of special effects
thrown in. One however suspects that Spiderwick Chronicles might
just suffer the same fate as the somewhat similar, recent Dark is
Rising movie and simply sink into obscurity. To confuse matters
another movie with the word “chronicles” in them are also released next
year (namely The Mutant Chronicles)
and hey, except for Narnia since when did any movie with
“chronicles” in the title do well? (We’re looking at you here,
Chronicles of Riddick . . .)
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