Honestly I was very excited to see this movie. After binging the recent A series of unfortunate events show on Netflix and reading all the books, I was hyped to see this take on a series of unfortunate events. Unfortunately this movie has its flaws. First off, this movie only focuses for 30 minutes on each book, only long enough to give you an overview of what happens in the books. Of course I understand you can't spend that long on each book, but some parts of the movie weren't even in the book! For example, when the kids were trapped in the car in the train track, none of that even happened in the book. Overall this wasn't worth watching and I wouldn't recommend it.

For Book Month, we look at the popular books series "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" with this one which is said to have elements from the first three books. Anyway, this movie features Jim Carrey as the villain Count Olaf. Olaf is what makes this movie. Jim Carrey steals every scene he's in. He was the absolute perfect choice for Olaf and he can move his face and body so much he gets into character wonderfully. Honestly, the events weren't that unfortunate.They even have an amusing intro with the littlest elf. This actually becomes relevant later in the story. The baby is another great edition, especially with her giggles are subtitled. Dang, that Olaf was evil. The child actors are good too. I think the credits were twelve minutes long! ***

A series of unfortunate Events is a very well made, Tim Burton-esque movie, with a lot of great atmosphere and charm.The cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki is very fitting with the tone, the movie is going for, which is kind of bleak and macabre, but also fairly funny and sometimes even hopeful...The three Budelaire children are all played by great actors, and the adult acts are on-par. Meryl Streep gives a not TOO over-the-top performance so that you are still invested in her character, Billy Connolly is the uncle everyone wishes he could have, and Jim Carrey is excellent as Count Olaf. For many years i didn't even knew it was him! (The same with Jude Law, but to be fair, he's embodiment of Lemony Snicket is always in shadows ^^)The visual Effects of this movie (which is 12 years old by now) stood the test of time incredibly well, most of the time it's not even visible if somethings real or not. There is only one effect shot which overstays it's welcome, when the little Sunny catches something with her mouth and than looks straight into the camera in full CGI. A cut a few seconds earlier would have been great, every other CG-embodiment of her character works fairly well.The soundtrack by Thomas Newman hits all the right emotional marks and the atmosphere of the film. The end track sticks in my head for weeks after i watched this.Speaking of the end track, it's heard while seeing a incredible artistic and creative fully animated end title-sequence which is marvelously great to the end, so stay for the end credits.It's all in all a fairly well made, dark, but not too dark family picture, with great performances and intense set-pieces...

Visually, the movie is very beautiful. Gothic yes, and beautiful. 9/10 for that.I remember watching this when I was a teenager, then I look it up again now and hey, it's really good.The Baudelaires children are cute, the villains are funny, and the sets is adorable.The best part was how the children made me feel about them. I sympathized with them, and yet, I am also satisfyingly fulfilled by them.The story, like all grim comedic movie (another story with a nearly similar theme like this is Into the Woods), is somehow somewhat a mess. But it worked. It worked fine.I loved it then, and I still love it now.Sadly, they don't give it a sequel.This is a kind of movie that will always have a place in my heart and my movie collection.P.S. The credit also has an eye-candy animation.