Director Mark Waters goes easy on the pixie dust and ratchets up the action in an effort to keep the fantasy fresh
di Carina Chocano The Los Angeles Times
With character names like Hogsqueal, Mulgarath and Thimbletack, it's got to be derivative. So it's not altogether surprising that Mark Waters' ("Freaky Friday," "Mean Girls") adaptation of "The Spiderwick Chronicles" suffers slightly from that not-so-fresh feeling.
Based on the children's fantasy series by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, it's the story of what happens to a trio of kids-in-trouble when their newly single mom moves them from New York to a crumbling, fairy-infested Victorian mansion in the country -- where they soon run afoul of the local ogre. [...]
di Carina Chocano, articolo completo (4173 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 14 febbraio 2008