Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events Director: Brad Silberling Cast: Jim Carrey
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- DVD Release Date: 04/26/2005
- Original Release: 2004
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- Sales Rank: 21,390
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Features
Disc 1: Audio commentary with director Brad Silberling; commentary with Silberling and the real Lemony Snicket; "Building a Bad Actor," "Making the Baudelaire Children Miserable," and "Interactive Olaf" featurettes; 11 "Dismal Deletions" and 5 "Obnoxious Outtakes."
Disc 2: ·Making-of featurettes, including "A Woeful World," "Costumes and Other Suspicious Disguises," "Violet's Functional Designs," and "CAUTION! Incredibly Deadly Vipers"; sound-design and editing featurettes including "The Sad Score," "The Unsound Sound Designer," and "You Probably Shouldn't Listen to These"; special effects featurettes including "An Alarming Conspiracy Involving Sunny," "An Even More Alarming Conspiracy Involving Sunny," "The Terrible Fire," and "Trains, Leeches and Hurricanes"; "Shadowy Stills" and "A Woeful World" photo galleries.
Scene Index
Side #1 -- Lemony Snicket's: A Series of Unfortunate Events, Disc 1
1. The Bad Beginning [:02]
2. Your New Guardian [6:04]
3. Chores [:42]
4. Custody Granted [5:28]
5. The Reptile Room [:30]
6. Stephano Arrives [5:34]
7. The Incredibly Deadly Viper [2:01]
8. Aunt Josephine [3:59]
9. Captain Sham [3:57]
10. Hurricane Herman [2:32]
11. Lachrymose Leeches [5:35]
12. The Marvelous Marriage [:32]
13. Let the Wedding Begin [5:26]
14. No One Listens to Children [1:17]
15. The Letter That Never Came [3:30]
16. End Titles [:46]
Editorial Reviews
It is Daniel Handler’s nom de plume, Lemony Snicket, above the title, but this mostly fortunate adaptation of three Snicket books (The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, and The Wide Window) leans weightily on Jim Carrey’s cinematic shoulders. Carrey is perfect as the despicable actor Count Olaf, hamming it up in a series of guises that figure in his continuing schemes to deprive the Baudelaire orphans of their parents’ fortune. The film's cautionary prologue ingeniously captures the subversive spirit of Snicket's macabre misadventures; it's a wonderful piece of stop-motion animation, right out of Rankin-Bass, in which "The Littlest Elf" prances about in celebration of springtime. Alas, narrator Snicket (Jude Law) informs us, this is not the cheerful film we are going to see. The Baudelaires' story is much more alarming. Described as "clever and reasonably attractive," Violet (Emily Browning), Klaus (Liam Aiken), and infant Sunny (Kara and Shelby Hoffman) survive every deadly predicament Count Olaf can concoct. The cast also includes a boisterous Billy Connolly and a delightful Meryl Streep as ill-fated guardians who are not so lucky in their encounters with Olaf. Director Brad Silberling avoids the slavish-devotion-to-the-text formula that diminished the first two Harry Potter films, although the decision to subtitle Sunny's gurgles and coos with contemporary slang ("Bite me") smacks of pandering. Parents may appreciate that some of the more "extremely unpleasant" incidents in the books (notably a climactic marriage) have been toned down, but the PG-13 rating is accurate. The Academy Award winner for Carrey’s makeup, the film was also justly nominated for its dazzling production design, and the animated end credits are among the best in recent years, too. Donald Liebenson, Barnes & Noble
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