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mellicious) wrote2023-12-12 09:34 pm
mellicious) wrote2023-12-12 09:34 pm
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Spiderwick Chronicles
I was poking around on Prime looking for, I don't know, a Christmas movie or something, and I ended up watching The Spiderwick Chronicles - which I know we saw back in the day, but nobody else we knew ever seemed to have seen. I didn't actually know I was hitting play on the movie at all just now, I thought maybe they made a TV series or something (they are, see below), but no, this is the movie.
We really liked it at the time, I remembered that, but it was one of those movies that vanished into the ether, as movies that don't make money tend to, and I almost forgot it existed. But, y'know, kids' movies have a way of persisting, if they find an audience, and here it is. (It's funny that I was talking yesterday about the Johnny Depp Wonka movie - which I couldn't honestly have told you the name of even though it's the name of the book - and here's Freddie Highmore, the same kid who played Charlie in that.) The animation shows its age, but it's not bad for something made 15 years ago.
(Later) Ah, ok, I knew I'd heard something about a series. Disney+ ditched it just recently and now it's going to be on Roku. I'm glad to know I wasn't imagining that.
We really liked it at the time, I remembered that, but it was one of those movies that vanished into the ether, as movies that don't make money tend to, and I almost forgot it existed. But, y'know, kids' movies have a way of persisting, if they find an audience, and here it is. (It's funny that I was talking yesterday about the Johnny Depp Wonka movie - which I couldn't honestly have told you the name of even though it's the name of the book - and here's Freddie Highmore, the same kid who played Charlie in that.) The animation shows its age, but it's not bad for something made 15 years ago.
(Later) Ah, ok, I knew I'd heard something about a series. Disney+ ditched it just recently and now it's going to be on Roku. I'm glad to know I wasn't imagining that.