Lemony Snickets berättelse om syskonen Baudelaires olycksaliga liv

...Snicket-heads will naturally be thrilled to see their heroes recreated so deftly and vividly; the production design and costumes stay true to the spirit of the book and are impossible to fault.

The Count wants to kill the children and inherit the family fortune, and is not very subtle in his methods...

...Carrey er på alle måder blevet et stærkt magnetisk centrum i denne flotte filmatisering af Lemony Snickets fortællinger.

Comparisons to 'Harry Potter', that other recent tsunamic children’s series, are inevitable; whereas it took the HP movie franchise three tries (and a fresh director) to get it right, Silberling bangs it out of the park at first bat.