The movie encompasses Snicket's first three books, in which Violet (Emily Browing), Klaus (Liam Aiken), and Sunny are foisted off on several guardians by the dimwitted executor of their parents' estate (Timothy Spall). Fortunately, Brad Silberling has kept the spirit of the series mostly intact with this film translation. Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" books, in which siblings Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire start off being orphaned by a fire and then having things go downhill from there, embraces that philosophy with a dark, sly humor that is irresistible. If your childhood was anything like mine, at some point you whined to your parents or another adult, "That's not fair!"-at which point the adult blithely retorted, "Life's not fair." A hard lesson, sure, but one we all learn eventually-life isn't fair people die, bad things happen to good people, and justice isn't always served.
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