The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)

3/4

We just don't get good children's entertainment like this anymore...

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09/06/08

3/4

This movie didn't really blow me away, but it was mildly enjoyable and should keep all of the fantasy fans happy

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07/22/08

B

Seen through the eyes of a child, this adaptation my lack originality but is fast paced, contains enough fantasy to balance the family drama and is, at times, very scary.

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07/19/08

2/4

sacrifices its undercurrent of pain and abandonment to big-budget special effects

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07/01/08

N/A

Based on the series of five serial children's novels, The Spiderwick Chronicles is a hollow spectacle that's good for the action and effects but light on everything else.

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06/28/08

3/4

For a movie about magical beasts, The Spiderwick Chronicles does an awfully good job of pegging childhood emotional realities, particularly in a context of divorce. [Blu-Ray]

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06/23/08

2.5/4

good enough to keep you and an older child entertained, but don't expect the next Harry Potter fever to emerge from this movie.

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06/20/08

N/A

Tosses together hobgoblins and home-alone latchkey kids with tomato sauce baggies as instruments of battle, bad parenting, and boy and girl savior daydreams fulfilled on screen.

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06/19/08

7/10

...imaginative fun, derivative, to be sure, but amusing and entertaining and just a little bit scary by turns, at least for kids.

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06/13/08

N/A

At 97 minutes this not just a great Saturday matinee for 10 year-olds, but one for their indulgent parent(s) or handy dandy favorite gay relative/babysitter as well.

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05/22/08

N/A

Lord of the Deathly Thingamabob

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05/07/08

1.5/5

soy troei miamisi ora gia na se taksidepsei sto asfales symperasma poy eihe psiliastei sto pentalepto, oti i pasifismos san haraktiristiko toy floroy, einai epilogi mi biosimi, kai to kalo gia na epikratisei, prepei na brei kako na polemisei kai na katats

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05/06/08

4/5

Spiderwick Chronicles provides lots of thrills and chills -- so much so that it may be too scary for younger viewers -- but it works best when it implies instead of showing.

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05/01/08

B-

Fast-paced and filled with neat special effects, it's a sure kid-pleaser, albeit one that suffers from the very elements that make it go down so easily.

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04/02/08

N/A

It's inevitable with such fantasies, the storylines begin to have a familiar ring. Rry as they might, the filmmakers here are never totally successful in narrowing the gap between reality and fantasy as live action and fantastical special effects converge

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03/23/08

N/A

As Spiderwick keeps time with the notion that kids' fantasies must feature bad, absent, or otherwise troubling parents, it also offers precious little in the way of clued-in adults.

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03/21/08

3/5

A late entry in a crowded field, Spiderwick works hard to set itself apart from the competition, and almost entirely succeeds - no mean feat these days.

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03/20/08

3/4

Displays a lighter touch than other fantasy films of this nature, meaning that its thrills are all the more unexpected -- and effective.

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03/16/08