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Summary: Like a horror movie
Comment: Pro: story, characters, special effects

Con: It had the creepy, sinister, feeling of a
horror movie. The kids in the movie throw tomato ketchup 'bombs' at the monsters to kill them. By
the end of the movie the walls of the house looked like they were dripping with blood. Also didn't
like the way the main boy stabbed his 'father'...I know it was the monster in disguise but I felt it
was a very jarring and overly graphic image.

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Summary: Good fun family viewing
Comment: The Spiderwick Chronicles is one of the better of the recent flood of children's fantasy films.
Wisely avoiding the "epic sweep" of films like Narnia and Golden Compass, it instead focuses on a
family adventure with plenty of pace and fun. Good acting and a good script create a really
enjoyable adventure - only cheesy in a few segments. Enjoyable for the whole family.

Customer Rating:

Summary: Great film
Comment: I'd forgotten what a good kid's action/fantasy film was like after watching rubbish like Harry
Potter, Arthur and the Invisibles etc.

Get this film it has a great plot, great
villains and is superbly acted, by the kids and the adults alike.

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Summary: god this film sucks
Comment: i saw a few adverts for this and it looked quite good so i went to go and see it with my family. i
was hoping it to be epically like the first Narnia film but it really wasn't!

the
acting in it was awful and they had annoying little characters which made the whole thing worse. />
finally it ended with a cheesy scene which i could nearly say word for word the first time
i saw it!

Awful film

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Summary: Beautiful Film
Comment: I would highly recommend this film. The story, plot and setting are wonderfully magical and the
computer generated characters were brilliant.
I loved it. It's as every bit as entertaining
as a Harry Potter film. Thankfully it was nothing to do with spiders at all but a wonderful fantasy
film about Brownies, Sylphs, hob goblins, trolls and all manner of ugly fairytale baddies who the
children have to face to protect a magical book.

The reason I would only give it 4
stars though is it did not hold the attention of of my 3 children aged 8 and under at all. I can
only assume to really grab the attention the child needs to be slightly older. The only other slight
gripe I has is the American accents of the twins was terrible and really grated. The acting though
was first class.

I was so impressed by the film though I am going to purchase the books
- there is a lovely trunk set currently available for children on Amazon for £15.

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