Shiny Things - March 3rd, 2008

08:01 am - Spiderwick Chronicles

We took the kids to see The Spiderwick Chronicles last night. I didn't have high expections, but the books were kind of fun (okay writing, fun Tony DiTerlizzi illustrations) and I thought the movie would be fun too. It was quite a bit better than I expected. The visual effects were very nice, and I got some good laughs out of it.

I remember at one point wondering how they found twins who looked so much like Jared and Simon in the books. They didn't! That was the bit of special effects I was most impressed with, because I didn't even notice they had two characters played by one actor.