Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events

Director: Brad Silberling

Starring: Jim Carrey, Meryl Streep, Billy Connelly, and Jude Law(voice of).

This movie is absolutely gorgeous. Every little detail of Art Design is completely imagined. The Costums, the sets, the Lighting, everything fits together to give this film a very unique and pleasing look. However, the movie itself falls just shy of total success.

The acting is very good. The two oldest Baudelaire children(Emily Browning & Liam Aiken) really carry their scenes and are charming. The twins playing the baby are adorable and cute. Jim Carrey is hilarious. Billy Connelly and Meryl Streep are charming and great as always. However, there was just... something missing. I will have to go back and watch this film again just to catch all the gags the filmmakers threw in there. Like the AFLAC Duck. Yeah, thats right. at one point a very large object is falling. Cut to a white duck swquacking around. the Object falls and the duck flies off. This is very amusing. The voice of the duck is Gilbert Gottfried. No he doesn't say 'AFLAC!" but he quacks.

There are cameos like this all over the place. Count Olaf(Jim Carrey) is an actor. He has a troupe. The Troupe consists of The Bald Man(Luis fucking Guzman), Person of Indeterminate Gender (Craig Ferguson), Woman with White Faces #1-2 (Jennifer Coolidge and Jane Adams) and Hook-Handed Man(Jamie Harris). Several other Christopher Guest company members show up in other funny and assorted scenes. Also Cedric the Entertainer and Dustin Hoffman(!!!!). Yeah, this movie has alot of gags.

It was a fun entertainment. I hope they make more, because the ground work is there... if they could just find that one missing ingredient... hmmm.

-N