This is certainly cute enough, from the outset more Lemony Snicket than Harry Potter, but I couldn’t help but realise once the weird and wonderful creatures appeared just how ridiculously simple the story is – there’s a whole series of these to come? Freddie Highmore does a typically impressive job of portraying twins, the illusion only enhanced by the only other real screen presence, the sister, also being played by a non-American, Sarah Bolger from In America, who always shocks me when she shows up in movies these days with how she’s grown lol. James Horner’s score sounds very James Horner ish but I liked it, even though one of the themes is hideously like Casper’s Lullaby – I know, I probably hold that score too much to heart but what can I say, it hurts me when he reuses that music more than when he reuses any other, lol. Anyway, overall, again compared to most of what I’ve seen so far this year, not bad at all. The ending in particular really lifts it up, so beautiful.

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