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“The Spiderwick Chronicles” is a terrific entertainment for the whole family, except those below a certain age, who are likely to be scared out of their wits. What is that age? I dunno; they’re your kids. But I do know the PG classification is insane, especially considering what happens right after a father says he loves his son. This is a PG-13 movie for sure. But what will cause nightmares for younger kids will delight older ones, since here is a well-crafted family thriller that is truly scary and doesn’t wimp out. Based on a well-known
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Helen Grace.. Mary-Louise Parker Mulgarath.................... Nick Nolte Aunt Lucinda....... Joan Plowright Arthur Spiderwick... David Strathairn Hogsqueal.................Seth Rogen Thimbletack/Boggart.. Martin Short Mallory Grace......... Sarah Bolger
Classified: PG (for scary creature action and violence, peril and some thematic elements).
series of five books, the movie involves a soon-to-be divorced mom and her three children who come to live in a creepy old mansion. This is Spiderwick,
named after her grandfather, Arthur Spiderwick, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The house itself is one of the stars of the movie, looking Victorian Gothic with countless nooks and crannies and shadows and scary sounds. Is it haunted? Nothing that comforting. It’s ... inhabited. The mother is Helen Grace (Mary-Louise Parker), who is battling with the rebellious Jared (Freddie Highmore), one of her twin sons. He doesn’t like being away from his dad, is homesick, doesn’t want anything to do with this dusty and spider-webby old ruin that was left to his mom by her aunt. Jared’s brainy twin, Simon, looks remarkably identical, no doubt because he is also played by Freddie Highmore, born 1992, a gifted young actor best known for “Finding Neverland,” “August Rush” and “The Golden Compass.” The twins’ sister is the plucky Mallory (Sarah Bolger), a fencer who seldom goes anywhere without her sword, which is just as well in this movie. You may remember how good she was in “In America” (2002). Jared is the kind of kid who is always getting blamed for everything. When stuff starts disappearing, for example, he gets the rap. When he hears noises in the wall and punches holes in it, he’s being destructive. But he’s brave, and when he finds a hidden dumbwaiter, he hauls himself up to a hidden room -- his grandfather’s study, left undisturbed after all these years. This room fairly reeks of forbidden secrets. Don’t read further unless you already know, as the Web site makes abundantly clear, that he finds a “field guide” to the unseen world left by his great, great-uncle (David Strathairn), and that with its help and a Seeing Stone, Jared can see goblins, sprits, hobgoblins, ogres, trolls and griffins, which themselves can take many shapes. Some of them are amusing, like Thimbletack (voice by Martin Short), some alarming, like Boggart (Short again), some
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