Harris leans so far into the same mock-outrage that his early segments feel like How I Met Your Mother outtakes, complete with a slightly out-of-place musical number in the second episode. After Harris and Warburton, the actual Baudelaires are less important to the overall story.
Violet Malina Weissman, an apparent clone of Emily Browning, who played the film Violet — and Klaus Louis Hynes are the only real characters of the trio, since Sunny is a toddler.
But both children do their jobs well, portraying a sense of pluck and upbeat perseverance that make it easy to root for them. At the beginning of each episode, Snicket continues to appear to reiterate the idea to viewers that they would be better off watching something else, even as the show tries to draws them in with Warburton's velvet-voiced, fantastic delivery, and his references to further mysteries.
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Tablets Smartwatches Speakers Drones. Accessories Buying Guides How-tos Deals. Give me the line again! Quickly, while it's fresh in my mind! Klaus Baudelaire : [uncertainly] Our parents just died? Count Olaf : [gasps dramatically]. Sunny : [in baby talk] What a schmuck! Sign In. Play trailer Adventure Comedy Family. Director Brad Silberling. Top credits Director Brad Silberling. See more at IMDbPro.
Trailer Photos Top cast Edit. Liam Aiken Klaus as Klaus. Emily Browning Violet as Violet. Kara Hoffman Sunny as Sunny. Shelby Hoffman Sunny as Sunny. Timothy Spall Mr. Poe as Mr. We learn things from the A Series of Unfortunate Events books that kept us guessing inside the sugar bowl is a cure for the poisonous Medusoid Mycelium fungus and respectfully leave some mysteries alone it is uncertain if Count Olaf really started the Baudelaire fire.
While the more mysterious execution of the A Series of Unfortunate Events books may keep it forever intriguing and timeless and the film adaptation remains a forgotten missed opportunity, the Netflix series gives Lemony Snicket fans the best of both worlds. But let us know your thoughts on the matter in the poll and comments below. Jason has been writing since he was able to pick up a washable marker, with which he wrote his debut illustrated children's story, later transitioning to a short-lived comic book series and very amateur filmmaking before finally settling on pursuing a career in writing about movies in lieu of making them.
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He leaves to get some "treats", while locking the children in the car on the way. Violet finds a book on Inheritance Law and You and finds a small page with time stamps on it. Klaus realizes that the times are schedule times for a train about to past the crossing they are on, one being which the time on the car suddenly strikes. The children realize that unless they do something fast they will be run over by the train.
Inside the store Olaf grabs some soda only to see the bottles begin to shake, making him smile. Hearing a laughing The Littlest Elf bobble head, The children react and try to find a way out.
The phone on the car's dashboard rings being Mr. Poe returning a call from Olaf. Violet tries to warn Poe of their problem, but he is unable to hear them as he is ironically next to the train.
The signal begin ringing, and the train is seen in the distance. Using a makeshift rope made from a seat spring, seat trim, and the elf head they use it the latch onto a track switch to change the tracks. They fail at first but manage to latch on the second try. They are able to switch the tracks just before the train crosses. Olaf laughs as the train comes expecting a crash but stops and sees the train passing in front of his car.
Poe arrives and Olaf hides, unlocking his car. Sunny sticks her head out the window and waves at Poe. Poe then decided to take away the children away from Olaf due to "Letting Sunny drive" However, Count Olaf whispers to the children that he will find them, no matter where they go. Poe then sends the children to live with their "uncle" Who is really their father's cousin's wife's brother , Dr.
Montgomery Montgomery Billy Connolly , a cheerfully eccentric herpetologist with a well-stocked 'reptile room' full of exotic and often fictitious reptiles, who is planning a trip to Peru. Their stay with Uncle Monty is cut short when Count Olaf appears in disguise as a man named Stephano , a replacement for Monty's assistant Gustav who was kidnapped and tied to a train by Olaf.
The Baudelaires see through the disguise instantly. They manage to communicate to Monty that Olaf is an imposter, but fail to impress upon their uncle the villain's true intention on him. Monty remains convinced that the supposed Stephano is a rival herpetologist come to plagiarize Monty's recent scientific discoveries.
Olaf later murders Monty and frames a large and poisonous viper for the killing. As the disguised Olaf and his henchman the Hook-handed man Jamie Harris who is in disguise as a doctor prepare to kidnap the children, Sunny reveals the snake's true gentle nature, and Olaf's plot is exposed. This persuades a skeptical Mr. Poe and a police inspector Cedric the Entertainer to accept Stephano's guilt, though not his true identity.
The count abandons his disguise and escapes. Events now take the children to the gloomy shores of Lake Lachrymose , where their "aunt" not technically , Josephine Anwhistle Meryl Streep , resides in a house perched precariously on the edge of a cliff overlooking the waters of the vast lake.
She has numerous irrational fears, and yet lives in a house populated with many of those things of which she is terrified by - her fear of realtors prevents her from moving. The house is held up by stilts and includes a large window facing the lake. A room of photographs and documents apparently contains clues to the cause of the fire that killed the orphans' parents; Josephine, too, appears to know more than she is willing to reveal.
Before the children can discover more, however, Olaf arrives once again, disguised as a sailor named Captain Sham , and quickly gains Josephine's confidence and love. She accompanies him back to her home, leaving the children alone to complete the day's shopping. The orphans soon discover that Josephine has disappeared and the window smashed, leading the Baudelaires to believe that she has killed herself.
She leaves what is ostensibly a suicide note, but which is, in fact, a coded message telling them that she is hiding in Curdled Cave on the shore of the lake. As the children prepare to leave for the cave, the house is torn apart by a hurricane.
The Baudelaires barely escape. Sailing across the lake to reach Curdled Cave, they find Josephine, and attempt to make their way to safety. The deadly Lachrymose Leeches reach them first, as Josephine secretly ate a banana recently. Count Olaf catches up with them, rescuing the Baudelaires but leaving Josephine at the mercy of the water and of the leeches to prevent her from revealing his designs on the orphans. It is heavily implied Josephine is killed. Poe arrives, and returns the Baudelaires to Olaf's custody, moved by Olaf's apparent dedication to the safety of the children.
At Olaf's home, Olaf concocts his final plan, involving a play starring himself and Violet called The Marvelous Marriage. In the play, his character marries Violet's character, but in such a way that the staged marriage is legal, gaining him access to the Baudelaire fortune.
This move is accomplished by Olaf's casting of Justice Strauss as the supposed judge in the play; with her in this role, the marriage is technically legal.
To ensure Violet's cooperation, he holds Sunny hostage in a cage in the forbidden tower beside his house. During the play, Klaus tries to rescue Sunny by climbing up the tower, but is thwarted by the Hook-handed man at the top. In the final moments of the play, as Olaf triumphantly brandishes the marriage certificate, Klaus succeeds in incinerating the document from a distance with the aid of a light-focusing apparatus; it is suggested by Klaus that Olaf may have used it to set fire to the Baudelaire mansion, as he says these things don't just happen.
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