Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (film)

[Heroine of the Dragon]

Have you watched Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events?

In a clock tower, investigator Lemony Snicket begins writing a documentation regarding the whereabouts of the Baudelaire children.

Fourteen-year-old inventor Violet Baudelaire, her twelve-year-old bibliophile brother Klaus, and their mordacious baby sister Sunny are orphaned when a mysterious fire destroys their home, killing their parents. Mr. Poe, the family banker, manages their affairs and leaves them in the care of their geographically closest relative, Count Olaf. He is a stage actor and either their third cousin removed four times or the inverse. He is intent upon obtaining their family fortune, which will remain in the custody of the bank until Violet comes of age. He forces them to do heavy chores and belittles them.

Driving back from the court where Count Olaf has legally obtained custody of the children, he stops to go into a general store, leaving them locked in the car parked directly on train tracks with a train heading towards them. They manage to divert the train by building a device to remotely activate the railroad switch. Mr. Poe arrives and takes them away, thinking that Olaf was allowing Sunny to drive.

The orphans are taken to their uncle, Dr. Montgomery, an eccentric but kind herpetologist. However, Olaf arrives disguised as his assistant Stephano. The orphans attempt to warn him, but he believes he is after the Incredibly Deadly Viper, a giant misnomer snake, in his laboratory. Montgomery is discovered dead shortly after, his death blamed on the viper. They are almost placed in Stephano's care by Mr. Poe, but Sunny proves his guilt by showing the viper is harmless and he escapes.

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemony_Sn ... ate_Events

[Gametrek]

The movie was one thing........

The series was just another Netflix rip-off.

You the sad part? I did not realize that was Jim Carry until somebody told me.

It looked interesting to me until they added a random baby. I wished this was a cartoon with a messed up looking 19th century badguy ( like the one from Animaniacs-reboot, ) where every second the children are able to avoid being murdered. Nope we just see an elderly man trying to kill small children only to end up being caught in the traps he sets.

It is like that movie about the two men who tries to woo this wealthy woman only to attempt to kill her. However she refuses to believe such things and instead spends the rest of her days having mindless sex between the two of them. It was like a Laurel and Hardy type movie.

That is what "A series of Unfortunate events" is really about, but they

Remove the sex part.
Reduce the silliness to one man. Jim Carry in this case.
Added a mindless baby/toddler for the ride.
Took the two kids from "A cat in the hat"

Of course at some point they would show a policeman in the series. ( because we have to keep the viewers worship ping authority.

[I REALLY HATE POKEMON!]

I saw the original film with Jim Carry. It was watchable but definitely not my thing.

[CaptHayfever]

^^None of what you're saying makes any sense: The baby is in the original books; they didn't add her for the movie/series. The Netflix series rather faithfully adapts the books (in their entirety, whereas the movie only covered the first three & changed the ending). And just *showing* a policeman doesn't work for conditioning viewers to worship authority when the policeman is incompetent.

The movie is good, but the show is better.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"