Director:
Mark WatersCámara:
Caleb DeschanelMúsica:
James HornerReparto:
Freddie Highmore, Andrew McCarthy, Izabella Miko, Sarah Bolger, Mary-Louise Parker, Joan Plowright, Martin Short, David Strathairn, Seth Rogen, Nick Nolte (más)Streaming (4)
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Desde el momento en que la familia Grace (compuesta por Jared, su hermano gemelo Simon, su hermana Mallory y la madre de los tres) se muda a la vieja y aislada casa de Arthur Spiderwick, su tío bisabuelo, empiezan a ocurrir cosas muy raras. Una serie de extrañas desapariciones y accidentes no tienen una explicación lógica, los hermanos empiezan a investigar. Poco a poco descubren la extraordinaria verdad de la estancia Spiderwick y de las criaturas que habitan en ella. (Universal Pictures España)
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The first half is very entertaining and the pace Mark Waters sets by the time the protagonists get to town is almost lethal. By the end, however, the script runs out of breath and not even the decent actors, the good music and the above-average direction can save it.
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I was hoping that The Spiderwick Chronicles would be similarly interesting for an older viewer, similar to Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events or even The Chronicles of Narnia. I've tried to read the books as well, but while they are a pleasure to hold and have charming illustrations, they’re really more for kids under 10. The adaptation is no different. However, if you have this age group around you, you need not hesitate. Tony DiTerlizzi, along with Holly Black, wrote a total of 8 episodes (5 of the main series and 3 of the one that came after).
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I didn't expect much from this film, but I was pleasantly surprised. It's another American family fantasy comedy, but it's also something more. Again, there's the old familiar cliché of the broken parent-child relationship or the initial disbelief in something supernatural. So what! I'll take it. Joan Plowright fit her character perfectly and played her (albeit brief) role brilliantly. The creatures and monsters really had something going for them, especially in terms of looks and behavior. Like I said, it's a cliché where we know how it's going to end, but boredom is minimal, entertainment is guaranteed and it's a real feast for the eyes.
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This is a cute, adventurous, and likable movie with two young actors who give good performances, and an average story. Visually, the movie is really great (I was very pleasantly surprised at it considering it was made on a low budget) and the acting is also great (Freddie Highmore is impeccable in his dual role, Sarah Bolger is great opposite him), the rest is merely just-OK. In short, it is a solid enough movie worth watching once, that neither offends nor delights.
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To tell you the truth, during the first twenty minutes, Mark Waters absolutely disarmed me and I’m not scared to admit that he even almost enthused me. Everything worked better than I had expected. Primarily the atmosphere and the aura of a kids’ journey to find adventure oozes from it. The kids here aren’t nearly so bad as they tend to be in similar types of movies, but they are nicely naughty and believable buggers who won’t leave some poor souls to read in peace. I just love these kids. And to add to the goodness, here the movie has rather a dark feeling about it. And after rather a mysterious opening they pull out their trump card: CGI dwarves. After this, the Chronicles stops all pretense and... the cruel truth emerges. No miracles happen, this is just another in that endless cycle of sprouting attractive family fantasies with no head or tail, designed for disposal. There is no story, just a substitute for a story in the form of a functionless pastiche with no end of clichés. And, what is worse, they are bad and terribly naive clichés at that. But not naive in a cute, fairytale way, but in precisely the opposite way. And, to make things worse, we get forced a handful of moralizing. Or rather a whole wagon load of moralizing. In terms of acting, this is like the woodpile before the winter. Wood stacked up, listlessly sitting there. Even Nick Nolte, in his only (very short) scene, manages to embarrass himself more than he has done in many a year. Not to speak of the usually otherwise outstanding Strathairn. As a whole it isn’t absolutely bad, and not even very boring; in technical terms it’s well-made, but he managed very easily to annoy me more than anything has for a long while. Which is a shame, because the beginning promised great things in terms of quality and Freddie Highmore does an unexpectedly good job with his double role. That kid’s got something in him. And that is the only information that the Chronicles gave me. But I knew that a long time ago, anyway, so in fact it was a completely needless watch.
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