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The Spiderwick Chronicles   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews   Critics Reviews User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites   The Critics: B- 13 reviews Start Rating Movies Now! Sign In or sign up Yahoo! Users: B 7646 ratings  User Reviews (550 reviews) Write your own review Sort by:  Most HelpfulMost RecentHighest GradeLowest Grade Previous   |  1-10 of 550  |   Next   Overall Grade: A- Story: A Acting: A Direction: B+ Visuals: A Not for all children (Spoilers) by Paige C (movies profile) (Jul 7, 2008) 273 of 285 people found this review helpful Spoiler alerts for Spiderwick and also for Cloverfield. This is a highly visual and sometimes pretty graphic movie. We read some reviews and decided to take our seven ye... Full Review Overall Grade: A Story: A Acting: B Direction: A Visuals: A+ Great movie for kids, by DonnaP (movies profile) (Jun 9, 2008) 65 of 76 people found this review helpful I took my kids to see this last week at a free screening. I really enjoyed it as did my kids. I did think a few of the characters were a bit scary for kids under 8 years... Full Review Overall Grade: A- Story: B Acting: B Direction: B Visuals: A Critics jaded by Thomas (movies profile) (May 21, 2008) 46 of 50 people found this review helpful As usual the critics are busy comparing this movie with that movie. Luckily I saw it before any critics posted reviews. I smiled through most of it and it was pretty ex... Full Review Overall Grade: B+ Story: A+ Acting: A- Direction: B+ Visuals: A A modern day fairy tale worthy of praise! by Brennan (movies profile) (Jun 11, 2008) 38 of 45 people found this review helpful If you like movies about pixies and fairies, and trolls or quite pleasant sounds of birds chirping... This movie is NOT for you! A non-stop action packed, loud, family f... Full Review Overall Grade: A+ Story: A+ Acting: A+ Direction: A+ Visuals: A+ SAME GREAT FEELING AS NARNIA! RUN TO SEE THIS! by DomDragon (movies profile) (Apr 19, 2008) 24 of 28 people found this review helpful I just saw a midnight screening of this long-anticipated fantasy movie and now I can confidently say that 'The Spiderwick Chronicles' joins the fantasy movie classics lik... Full Review Overall Grade: A- Story: A- Acting: B+ Direction: A Visuals: B+ Loved it - a parent's perspective by missamandamay (movies profile) (May 5, 2008) 17 of 17 people found this review helpful I took my 5 and a half year old son to see this yesterday and thought I'd add my two cents. Most everything about the plot/effects has been said, but here's another pare... Full Review Overall Grade: B+ Story: B+ Acting: A Direction: B+ Visuals: A- Good Story - Flawed, but very fun and creative by InsertNameHere (movies profile) (May 10, 2008) 12 of 13 people found this review helpful The acting in this was very good. My only beef with the story, which is very imaginitive, is that it moves so fast all of the time that you don't really get a whole lot... Full Review Overall Grade: B Story: B- Acting: B Direction: B Visuals: B+ Grandparents loved it. by HalG (movies profile) (Apr 1, 2008) 9 of 10 people found this review helpful Hey- Us old folks love these kinds of flicks too ;-) Kind of a "Bridge to Terabithia" meets "Narnia" in tone....no spiritual implications, just good clean fantasy and a... Full Review Overall Grade: C Story: B Acting: A Direction: B Visuals: B Too scary! by Lisa M (movies profile) (Mar 24, 2008) 8 of 8 people found this review helpful I took my eight year old cousin to see this movie today. The movie was sold out most of the day, but we finally got in. This really made me assume it would really be gr... Full Review Overall Grade: A- Story: B Acting: B Direction: N/A Visuals: A great family fantasy! by beverly i (movies profile) (Feb 29, 2008) 8 of 8 people found this review helpful Very entertaining for kids and their parents, (or adults who just like a nice, clean, fantasy story)! The numerous children seated nearby had us worried before the movie... Full Review Previous   |  1-10 of 550  |   Next