{"id":3,"date":"2008-02-24T22:09:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T03:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogue-cavern.net\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2008-02-26T22:42:53","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T03:42:53","slug":"spiderwick-chronicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rogue-cavern.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/24\/spiderwick-chronicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiderwick Chronicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not having a chance to read the book series before seeing the screen adaptation of <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.spiderwickchronicles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Spiderwick Chronicles<\/a> I went into the viewing with zero expectation and no predetermined notions of how the movie should be.<\/p>\n<p>The storyline revolves around the experiences of  the children of Helen Grace (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000571\/\">Mary-Louise Parker<\/a>) a newly divorced mother who inherits her uncle&#8217;s forest secluded mansion.  The daughter Mallory (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0092961\/\">Sarah Bolger<\/a>) and the two twin sons Simon and Jared (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0383603\/\">Freddie Highmore<\/a>) find themselves fighting a fantastic battle against goblins, trolls and a mighty ogre after unwittingly calling their attention to a book full of secret information regarding all types of mystical and magical creatures.<\/p>\n<p>The storyline is engaging but short.  As I understand it the book series consists of five novels and to condense that into a 90 minute movie means a lot must have been left out of the movie.   The computer generated graphics for all of the mystical creatures was par for a movie these days without nothing really standing out either good or bad.<\/p>\n<p>If you like fantasy films you will probably enjoy the film however if you are a fan of the books you may be dissapointed by the lack of substance in the film.<\/p>\n<p>I give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiderwickchronicles.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Spiderwick Chronicles<\/a> a 6 Rogueys out of 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not having a chance to read the book series before seeing the screen adaptation of The Spiderwick Chronicles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rogue-cavern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rogue-cavern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rogue-cavern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rogue-cavern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rogue-cavern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rogue-cavern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rogue-cavern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rogue-cavern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rogue-cavern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}