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
Christa Munro James D. Bissell Brent Lambert Jean-Pierre Paquet David Gaucher Lucie Tremblay Frédéric Amblard Alex Touikan Robert Parle Mario Chabot Simon Guilbault Céline Lampron Martin Gagné Maryse de Lottinville
Las crónicas de Spiderwick, As Crônicas de Spiderwick, The Spiderwick Chronicles: The IMAX Experience
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…
Like 'Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events' before it, 'The Spiderwick Chronicles' shows Dreamworks Pictures and Nickelodeon taking a beloved series of children's novels and adapting it all into a satisfying, enjoyable, under-two-hours feast for the eyes. Unlike Brad Silberling's excellent adaption of the Snicket novels, however, the Mark Waters adaption of 'Spiderwick' fails to be anything close to definitive, capturing the spirit and candor of the novels while struggling with the tone and cast of characters. The first thirty minutes are blissful, spooky and promising, but close to the one hour mark the film shifts its focus from mystery and wonder to big CGI sequences, which are entertaining and well handled, but are far less interesting than they…
The way this movie had me convinced that Freddie Highmore had a twin and i was so SHOCKED when i googled and learnt that he didn't and he played both parts and im still mad he isn't appreciated enough for his talent and service.
i don’t care what anyone says this movie was my childhood and it’s damn good!!! Also my family only owned like 8 movies when I was a kid and this was one of them so that should be taken into consideration.
This is a movie from my childhood, teenage years, and idfk hopefully my adult years. The point I’m trying to make is that this thriller is a timeless classic and I’m sure I’ll be watching it occasionally for years to come. 10/10
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