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 Maryse de Lottinville Martin Gagné
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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
Somewhere 20-30 years from now people who weren't even born before the 00's will look back on that decade with fascination as they try to study certain trends in cinema history, like the way we look back on the 70's and 80's and think we know all about blacksploitation, sharksploitation and post-apocalypse rock bands. Movies in the future won't be using CGI special effects or even puppets, by then we will have mastered genetic engineering and all the little creatures will be grown in a lab and built to last anywhere between 6-36 months, depending on how long the film producers need them for, hardwired with show-business ethos and plumped on a film set to read their lines until they…
total banger that defined an era of my childhood. after this movie came out, my little sister and I spent the next 2 years making our own illustrated guides to magical creatures in the wild and trying to find goblins and trolls and dwarves in the woods. maybe it's just that I was young then, but these days I really miss the era when fantasy movies inspired so much imaginative wonder and curiosity in the world around you, daring you to wonder "could this actually be real?" this movie is only, like, 90 minutes, and yet it manages to construct a believable world that feels like it warrants hours more.
two other commendable things about this movie: first, the sheer…
arthur spiderwick looking at his guide: shorty a lil baddie, shorty my lil boo thing
mulgarath: and shorty got the fatty-
arthur: and shorty got the ⎯ 👁👄👁
After watching this again for the first time in over a decade, I still feel that despite some terrific world building, this is just one extremely overlong and rather weird Mucinex commercial that just happens to be a fantasy YA adaptation as well.
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 🤔
*In the writers room*
"AND THEN the immensely powerful villian of the story turns into a BIRD and then then SETH ROGANS Pig Character EATS HIM"
"WOW JIM THATS FUCKING PERFECT. WRITE THAT SHIT DOWN
