Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full o... Read allUpon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 8 nominations
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe bulk of the events of this movie take place in one day.
- Goofs(at around 45 mins) When Helen Grace is at her job just before she notices her children outside, she is being told by her coworker what to push on the keyboard. She clearly is pushing random keys and not the ones spoken.
- Quotes
[the tow truck driver gets out of his truck after running over the invisible mole troll that was chasing Jared]
Tow Truck Driver: Are you okay? Oh, man, did I hit somebody?
Jared Grace: Yes. Thank you!
- ConnectionsEdited into Yoostar 2: In the Movies (2011)
I suppose there are so many child-magic "save the world" movies because kids are really easy to please.
But you have to have several things for these to work. You have to have charming kids. You need to have some unique imagination in the creatures or the forces they operate under. And you need to have basic narrative shape to the thing.
This has none of that.
Now this may just be my experience, because I made the mistake of seeing it in Imax, and when things get bigger you expect the spaces to be filled. This is gremlins meets Potter kids lite.
I went to it, in fact blew most of a day to get to it, because of Sayles. His cinematics are a bit stagebound for my tastes, but knows how to shape things so that you go somewhere. Waters, the director has done some poor work recently, but his first film (House of Yes) really impressed me. That was based on a play and used the same stagecraft preferred by Sayles. So I thought we'd get something both tasty and nourishing.
Alas, neither. What do parents think? That you can scrimp on children's imagination and narrative sense and not have them suffer?
I suppose a bright parent could say that the story was about stealing a book with lessons in it, and the book was destroyed.
Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.
- tedg
- Mar 28, 2008
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- The Spiderwick Chronicles: The IMAX Experience
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $90,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $71,195,053
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $19,004,058
- Feb 17, 2008
- Gross worldwide
- $164,170,327
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1