Waters’ version, which was adapted for the screen by Karey Kirkpatrick, David Berenbaum and John Sayles, is mercifully short on the childlike wonder. 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.īased 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. With character names like Hogsqueal, Mulgarath and Thimbletack, it’s got to be derivative.
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