2008 Directed by Mark Waters
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.
Larry J. Franco Mark Canton Karey Kirkpatrick Holly Black Tony DiTerlizzi Julia Pistor Ellen Goldsmith-Vein
Brent Lambert Philippe Lord Lucie Tremblay Frédéric Amblard Alex Touikan Mario Chabot Martine Giguère-Kazemirchuk Daniel Hamelin Simon Guilbault Céline Lampron Martin Gagné Maryse de Lottinville
Las crónicas de Spiderwick, The Spiderwick Chronicles: The IMAX Experience, As Crônicas de Spiderwick, Die Geheimnisse der Spiderwicks
I really enjoyed this movie as a kid and I think it still holds up today, even if it's not quite as great as I remembered. The worldbuilding in it - for ONE FILM - is phenomenal, and the effects and character designs are solid too. Also, it's legitimately scary for quite a bit of the runtime, which you don't usually see in a kid's movie, and Freddie Highmore plays two roles and does both really well. After watching this at like age 9 or 10, I believed in faeries (yes that the correct spelling) for several years afterword and my sister and I would go in the woods looking for them.
I dunno I just thought that was worth noting
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arthur spiderwick looking at his guide: shorty a lil baddie, shorty my lil boo thing
mulgarath: and shorty got the fatty-
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All I remember is I watched it when I was maybe 10 yo or sumn. It pretty scared tf outta me, dood. Had nightmares so bad that I almost drew a circle of salt around my bed 😭
My mom would've killed me in more imaginative ways than the goblins though
But if you read the books, it prolly wouldn't have scarred you that much
Freddie Highmore is literally my childhood. I'm genuinely asking where the hell is he now? Never seen him for years 🤔
Please stop trying to make Seth Rogen funny! Just stop!
If you combined The Chronicles of Narnia, Bridge to Terabithia and a dash of Harry Potter, this is the movie you would revive and it’s exactly what you’d expect from that type of film!
Gonna be honest I’m not a big fan of Freddie Highmore! I feel mean because he was just a child actor when he filmed this but I just don’t think he’s a very good actor! Sometimes there’s just nothing behind his eyes! And he plays two characters in this movie, both with an American accent which I didn’t like at first but got used to as the film went on! Everyone else is okay, there’s no standout performance! Although I found Seth Rogans Hogsqueal quite funny!…
The Spiderwick Chronicles is Fantastic, like Nacho Libre this is a Nickelodeon film and because of that it goes so overlooked, like part of this is nostalgia but I'm pretty confident this is an actually good movie, like all good movies this is about imagination and creativity and I love the story of this movie so so much. the beginning half is so entertaining and mysterious like the beginning to a horror movie, the CGI is actually really good for a 2008 Nickelodeon movie. the characters are pretty likable and there are arks, also that one scene where they pour the stuff on Simon's injured leg looks so real and it gets me every time this movie is actually pretty…
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One of the best movies I watched since a child. This movie combines fantasy and a bit of horror and emotional response so well It's about a family who moves into a house they've inherited and realize magical creatures are real.
I always loved this style of fantasy, scrapbooks of meticulously curated knowledge, magical creatures and tonics, and an affinity for the natural world. Watching this made me feel like a child, which I’m sure was the author’s intention.
Seth Rogan does some pretty austere voice acting too so if you want to see an almost startling level of CGI followed by a character who belches, this is the movie.
This was a film (and later DVD) that me and my mom enjoyed a lot, and no I've never read the books in case you're curious.
For squeezing this whole series into one film that's only 95 minutes, this movie pulls it off very damn well. For one this shows that director Mark Waters has a wider range of filmmaking skills and is capable of pulling off this dark adventure fantasy stuff (even though he did fantasy stuff before like Just Like Heaven but this is much more enjoyable. Plus getting Spielberg's director and yeah...James friggin Horner to do the music, that's an impressive feat movie.
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i loved this movie so much that i tried to make my own circle with storebought mushrooms
Always have been a totally underrated Fantasy-Kids-Movie. Could have been easily something like the new Harry Potter or Narnia.
Also my nostalgie didnt fool me. It's still as good as I remember it.
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