Freddie Highmore stars in two roles in the this movie. 2008. Director: Mark Waters.
The identical twins Simon and Jared Grace (Freddie Highmore, both roles) moves to a lonely house in a forest with their mother (Mary-Louise Parker) and their older sister Mallory (Sarah Bolger). The Grace children doesn't want to live there, but their mother has decided that they must give it a chance.
Jared hates it in the house and he wants to go to his father, who's not living with them any longer. The divorced Mrs. Grace doesn't want Jared to think so loving thoughts of his father. Jared then finds a secret room in the house, where a book by the former owner of the house, Arthur Spiderwick (David Straithairn), is hidden. When Jared opens the book, a new adventure begins.
Freddie Highmore who stars as both Simon and Jared in the movie makes this movie much more worth seeing. He plays the roles with great talent and it's easy to see that he's the best actor in this movie. Even though he's not old, only 14 when shooting, he's a good actor.
A bad thing which makes this movie a bit less touching and all, is that there's way to much visual effects by computers. It feels like nothing is real. You can almost always easily see what's made by computer and what's real. Here, it's like 80% is fake. That makes it less interesting. You could almost call it an animated movie.
This movie is not so especially deep, almost not at all I would say. It's a movie for children who's around 10 years old or so. It's based on the children's books by Holly Black and Tony Di'Terlizzi, so I seriously doubt that it's made for adults who thinks that fantasy like this is too childish.
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