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List Price: $19.99 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 41134
Released: November 15, 2005 |
| Our Price: $24.96 |
| Used Price: $7.97 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: UMD for PSP |
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Editorial Review:
After Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire's parents perish in a terrible fire, they are placed in the care of their uncle, Count Olaf (Jim Carrey), an evil fiend who is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.
Description of Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events [UMD for PSP]:
If you spliced Charles Addams, Dr. Suess, Charles Dickens, Edward Gorey, and Roald Dahl into a Tim Burton-esque landscape, you'd surely come up with something like Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Many critics (in mostly mixed reviews) wondered why Burton didn't direct this comically morbid adaptation of the first three books in the popular series by Daniel Handler (aka "Lemony Snicket," played here by Jude Law and seen only in silhouette) instead of TV and Casper veteran Brad Silberling, but there's still plenty to recommend the playfully bleak scenario, in which three resourceful orphans thwart their wicked, maliciously greedy relative Count Olaf (Jim Carrey), who subjects them to... well, a series of unfortunate events. Along the way they encounter a herpetologist uncle (Billy Connolly), an anxious aunt (Meryl Streep) who's afraid of everything, and a variety of fantastical hazards and mysterious clues, some of which remain unresolved. Given endless wonders of art direction, costume design and cinematography, Silberling's direction is surprisingly uninspired (in other words, the books are better), but when you add a throwaway cameo by Dustin Hoffman, Law's amusing narration, and Carrey's over-the-top antics, the first Lemony movie suggests a promising franchise in the making. --Jeff Shannon
Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events [UMD for PSP] Reviews:
Great DVD 
2009-11-07 - My son loved Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Event dvd. Seller delivered dvds on time and in excellent condition.Great sound and picture quality, too. Happy customer results in happy buyers.
Prompt delivery
2009-09-11 - Wonderful seller! Very quick delivery and the product was in gret shape, just as described.
Not Good 
2009-09-11 - from reading the other reviews it seams like alot of people based this off of the books. I have never read the books so I have nothing to go by . I bought this movie because of Jim Carrey and because I love all of his movies. I watched this movie one time and thought it was horrible , I think it took me around 3 days to acually get through it because it was so bad I had to keep turning it off. out of almost 500 movies that I own I only have a dozen or so movies that I hated so bad that I put in a pile to get rid of , this movie went in that pile. after having the movie in that pile for many months , I kinda forgot how the movie was and decided to watch it again before getting rid of it . the second time I watched it I liked it alot better than the first time but still didn't think it was a very good movie however now I'm depating on if I should keep it or get rid of it . I see now that it's one of those movies that i have to watch more than once in order to watch it without falling asleep. there are so many scenes that drug on and it's not funny at all but maybe it is worth keeping now since I already own it . I would NEVER have bought this movie if I knew it was this bad.
Good interpretation!!
2009-07-21 - I really enjoyed this movie after reading the books!! The movie follows closely to books, which is always a good thing. Jim Carrey is so funny in this movie!! The children acting in it are also pretty good. I love the costumes, too- especially Violet's!!! :) The ending was well done. However, the special features are seriously lacking. But other than that, this movie is great!!!!!
interesting movie
2009-06-18 - I bought this movie for my kids and I am amazed to say I'm actually able to watch it with them. This movie is also interesting for adults and is a fun movie.Overall I am very happy with it.
