Their world is closer than you think.
| Cast |
Freddie Highmore, Sarah Bolger, Mary-Louise Parker, Joan Plowright, David Strathairn, voices of Nick Nolte, Seth Rogen |
| Director |
Mark Waters |
| Screenplay | Karey Kirkpatrick, David Berenbaum, John Sayles, based on the books by Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black |
| Music | James Horner |
| Cinematography | Caleb Deschanel |
| Editing | Michael Kahn |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS, Sonics-DDP |
| Made in | 2008 |
| Produced by | The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Nickelodeon Movies, Spiderwick Productions, Gotham Group, Mark Canton Productions |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
Trailer: Small | Medium | Large
| Genre | Fantasy, adventure |
| Language | None |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | Mild low impact fantasy violence, psychological threat |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | Warning: Low impact psychological threat — parental advisement and mature accompaniment required. |
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| Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith  Weaves a fantastical web. | 15 |  |
| Cape Times Carino Chocano Fairy fantasy is an action movie focused on the chase. | 10 |  |
| iAfrica.com Rebekah Kendal A substantial and enchanting story without pushing the screen time beyond tolerable lengths. | 15 | |
| Sunday Times Barry Ronge | 15 | |
| 24.com Ivan Sadler Not perfect by any means and the more cynical among us will find the sugary ending enraging, but it will fill the gap while we wait for the next installments of Narnia and Harry Potter. | 10 | |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert The Spiderwick Chronicles is a terrific entertainment for the whole family, except those below a certain age, who are likely to be scared out of their wits. | 18 | |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli There are some scary moments but they're not that scary and the violence is muted by the ways in which it is shot and presented. | 15 | |
| ScreenItWhile purposefully not epic in stature like the Potter and Rings flicks, the film works in its smaller scale, decently mixing action, frights and some comedy. | 12 |  |
| Metacritic.com 30 critics | 12 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 111 critics | 13 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer An entertaining children's adventure with heart and imagination to spare. The Spiderwick Chronicles is an entertaining children's adventure, with heart and imagination to spare. | 16 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 2650 Netizens AMAZING Kid's Movie! | 14 | |
Average .. 69% | 14 | |