The Spiderwick Chronicles

[samvara]

The Spiderwick Chronicles books 1-5 by Holly Black and illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi. This is the first time I’ve read a book in the hope it will ‘fix’ the movie and I’m glad I did because the books are charming and the illustrations magical. To be fair I enjoyed the movie a lot and my problem was with some of the bigger plot leap-holes – which don’t happen in the five little books – they tell roughly the same tale.

Comments

[mortonhall.livejournal.com]

I guess the movie suffered from the same problem most movies from books have - they expect you to have read the book(s)

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Normally I'd agree *cough* Harry Potter but in this case they made changes that didn't enhance the story when the original storyline didn't suffer from the same flaws.

[mortonhall.livejournal.com]

yah, I really hate it when they think they can make a story better by changing it a lot. Especially if the book(s) were really successful. Sometimes I think these Hollywood types forget why they are making a movie about the book - because it is a great story already!