The Spiderwick Chronicles

The Spiderwick Chronicles

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  • Genre: Family, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama
  • Release Date: 2008-02-14
  • Runtime: 95 minutes
  • : 6.679
  • Production Company: Paramount Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
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6.679
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Description

Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.

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  • CinemaSerf

    7
    By CinemaSerf
    This doesn’t exactly get off to a flying start as siblings “Jared” and “Simon” (Freddie Highmore) arrive at a rundown house with their elder sister “Mallory” (Sarah Bolger) and the mum (Mary-Louise Parker). There is no sign of their absentee dad/husband (Andrew McCarthy) so we are left to assume the worst about his commitment to his family. Of course then there is the usual familial petulance, door slamming and stropping as nobody really wants to live in the ramshackle joint. Luckily, from now on the film diverges away from family melodrama as things start going bump inside the walls and they discover a secret and powerful book. Then out of the woodwork pops “Thimbletack” who reads “Jared” into the story of his great, great uncle “Arthur” (David Strathairn) and warns him that the menacing goblins are determined to steal the book. So long as it stays in the house, protected by an invisible force-field, then all will be fine but when some of the pages fall into enemy hands, a potion emerges that could allow the defences to be breached. What chance this family who range from the intrepid to the terrified via the supremely sceptical, can thwart the evil “Mulgarath” - armed only with salt and some ingenuity? Once we wade through the opening twenty minutes, this becomes an engaging and quickly paced fantasy adventure that Highmore holds together well amidst some magical visual effects, gnarly green critters and lots of daft adventures. Sure, some of the fantastic beasts do look a little “Potter”-esque, but the characters in this story help it stay on the right side of imaginative originality and good fun.

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