Did nobody read the books!? They were AMAZING. Not just well written but also beautifully styled with pencil drawn artworks that immersed you so deeply
the art was so pretty, have you seen the drawings in arthurs field guide? the art is even prettier in colour. I think most people that liked the movie didn't actually read the books.
True, but still that scene with Thimbletack going into murderous rage was still somehow the scariest part of the movie for me, lmao, I had NIGHTMARES because of this little dude😂😭
Personally I love the fact that they knew the dad wouldn't say he loved him there. It's my favorite thing in these types of stories where it's not "the magic fairies fixed our broken family" but "the magic fairies helped us process the problems in our family so we can accept it as it is" They didn't get their dad back, but the kids did end up with a different dynamic that no longer required the dad to come back and "save" his son
Out of all the fantasy films that came in the wake of Rings/Potter, Spiderwick Chronicles is the one I feel is the most underrated. Whereas so many other were bogged down with too much setup for sequels that never happened, Spiderwick was like "yeah, we're going to explain the world, tell a complete story, have an emotional heartbeat and be a thrill-a-minute all in less than two hours." And boy, did they pull it off.
I think what's great is that you didn't necessarily need to read the books for the movie to make sense. They basically took all 5 books & were able to make a cohesive movie.
@@TwiggyHetfield27 yeah, but i wouldn't complain if they made complete redo of series, with each book having it's own movie, i also would like a new movie series of Eragon edit: i wrote this commend just after getting in video, so like 0:02 :P
@@helixsol7171 The result of my most recent visit to the toilet was a better adaptation of the inheritance cycle so I don't think that will be particularly difficult
Actually the Film was supposed to be based on book one and two only but then they figured they should round up the end (or maybe thought they would not get the money for following films) and then they just left out book three and four. So the end is sort of like in book five, but with more changes, to complete the film.
This and Lemony Snicket were surprisingly very good at cramming several books into one movie without making it feel too rushed or have underdeveloped characters
@@Pandemia616they are. Sadly they had to cut the entirety of the 4th book, which deviates heavily from the main plot. It’s a shame because it’s my favourite of the series and goes into the world of terrestrial gnomes.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the scene where Mallory's hair got tied to the bed. That scene terrified me as a kid and It's still the first thing I think about whenever I remember the film. Also people referring to the actor as the "good doctor" dude and not Charlie from Charlie and the chocolate factory hurts my soul.
I feel bad for him, he has an extremely intensely acting career but has been pretty much put in a box bc of that character I feel less bad remembering what he feels an autistic person is tho. Plus he supports autism speaks
Simon tried to steal a book… A BOOK! I mean, I know his life was on the line and he was scared, confused and doesn’t understand anything that is happening right now but… yeah I got nothing.
This movie legitimately traumatized me as a kid. I remember being terrified that there was something in my walls. The goblins didn't scare me it was just the fact something could be in my walls.
I once met Holly Black, the author of the Spiderwick Chronicles. I actually met her not long after the movie came out. She's a super sweet person. When I met her, she looked exactly like you would imagine the author of the Spiderwick Chronicles would look like, but her personality was very bright and cheery. She has a very intense love for unicorns and Martha Stewart, which explains the presence for some of the cuter fairies in the book. Anyway, she was incredibly happy with this movie. I think she was more flattered than anything that her series received such a level of fame that a movie was made out of it. It was interesting watching her eyes sparkle when I asked her about her thoughts on the film. I, myself, was not a fan of this movie. It tried really hard to condense a full series into a single film and it reduced a lot of the plot, locations, and characters as a result. Still, Holly Black loved this film and she deserves nothing but the best in this world for the pure sunshine that she is. I hope she's happy with this remake.
Holly Black made this series!?!? I’ve come full circle. Read the whole series as a kid (I needed the reading points) and then read the cursed Prince series as an adult 🤣 This woman knows what’s up with fantasy books! 🤌🏼
I actually watched this with my dad while I was in college. I was living in Oakland and my dad was commuting to San Francisco for a work project. We were hanging out one weekend in the city and he said “let’s catch a movie.” I said sure, you’re paying, waddaya wanna watch? Yep, we ended up watching this, in iMax lol. One of my best memories of spending quality time with him, just the two of us. RIP, dad. Thanks for everything.
THIS MOVIE WAS JUST A CRUCIAL PART OF MY CHILDHOOD WHAT- i remember having a little sketchbook with very badly drawn creatures and putting on my dad's glasses to "see" the goblins
The way I started getting really into the real life lore about all the supernatural topics in this film and learned why they used salt to line the entry ways to their homes and the circles and started using actual witchy warding to protect our house from demons
When I was a kid and obsessed with this movie, my mom and I actually made a bucket of the tomato bombs that they made in the movie for the big fight against the Goblins. I didn’t use them, obviously because it would’ve made a big mess around the house and even in the backyard, so they eventually went bad and got mold on them after a few days and we threw them out.
I remember I used to go to our local library just to read all the books about the creatures, because I thought they were actually real and was so deeply interested, but also slightly scared, I absolutely loved these stories they were so whimsical to me as a kid
The amount of nostalgia I’m getting from watching this is crazy. I used to love this movie but that being said, it scared the absolute shit out of me. And it was on my mind ALL the time
This was basically Gravity Falls before Gravity falls was a thing at least for me cause this movie basically ignited my passion for a good documentary mystical story or whatever genre GF was. It also spiraled me into reading the books and also thanks to Snicket's story I was roped into the mystery of the overall story.
Mysterious author of a journal with information of the supernatural, fantasy creatures and monsters, protagonist is a young boy who discovers the journal, family dynamics, villain that's after the journal, magic, a huge house in the middle of the woods. It's all there! I love the Spiderwick Chronicles and Gravity Falls, they were my childhood.
Yeah I know I was thinking that while watching this and hoping that someone else had the same idea. Alex Hirsch must have watched this or something they are too similar for it to just be a coincidence.
There is something kind of cathartic watching a kid get to shank a facsimile of their crappy father. I’m sure a lot of children of divorce healed watching that movie.
Hey I remember watching this as a kid! I loved it when I was little. My mind was blown away that Jared and Simon were played by the same kid. I didn’t even know it was possible! ...I miss having that childhood wonder.
It is insane how much and how little I remember from this movie. I remember the mushroom circle, the sister getting attacked and the scene with the dad. Those bits have lived in my mind for the past 15 years, other than that, nothing. Not the name of the movie, not the main cast, nor the overall plot.
ME TOO I barely remember anything but the sister getting attacked, the mushroom circle, and some vague scene of a kid in a cage and one of the trolls eating a leg or something? Have all stuck with me somehow. Idk why that movie had an effect on me but it did lol I’m glad to see someone with the same relationship with it, I still think of it when I see a few mushrooms in a row 😭😭
I remember the mushroom circle and the honey part. That’s it. The same thing with the Eragon movie(I remember liking it as a kid but honestly rewatching it shows me how much the books were better)
Besides being kinda violent for a kids' movie, it also had the balls to address divorce in a mature way and realistically depicted the hurt that the father caused his children by essentially abandoning them. Lots of other movies at the time were fine with divorce being depicted as something the kids just needed to suck up and get over for the plot to happen. Here the son lets out all his anger and confusion by literally stabbing his good for nothing "father". Kinda heavy stuff.
Yeah, and it also didn't force parents back together. Most movies with divorcees would either go "suck it up" route or "aww, so they do love each other" route, which is really not ideal for kids actually living in such situations
I watched this movie, The Golden Compass, and The Water Horse on repeat as a kid. So many times. Any time my parents let me chose the movie it would be one of those 3.
I really liked the Movie and remember the Game being somewhat decent aswell 10:50 in Germany we have Sanatoriums in the Middle of some Towns. Sometimes the Town isn't being notified that a Building is converted into one and then the Patients flee and knock on Peoples Doors. Europe is a Wild Place.
My god what I remember most clearly from this movie was the ad that the theater must’ve accidentally looped or something right before it started, bc this ad must have played like 15 times. “The all new Chevy Malibu 😤” haunts me to this day
I recommend the fairyopolis books to anyone who has ever dreamed of owning the book in the movie. Its basically a journal about fairies with interactable bits like envelopes/ letters. As a kid who loved the magical creatures and aspects of this movie, i always had the second fairyopolis book checked out. I believe the author has other books about different subjects like dragons and i think there's one about pirates.
There is actually also one from this universe called "Field Guide" and it’s fully beautifully illustrated by the co-author of the original books :) it’s kinda like a bestiary, full of faerie creatures
Yeah, it’s kinda similar! Though the illustrations lean more to something like fine art with additional sketches and the whole thing is beautiful and has this amazing forgotten fantasy vibe ❤ (illustrations are by Tony DiTerlizzi)
Same! Also anyone else remember Arthur And The Invisibles? It’s another one of those fantasy movies for kids that I feel like nobody I know remembers 😅
I have been looking for this movie since I was 7!!! I went to see this film to the cinema when I was 7 with my family and I was so scared during it that I had to walk out the theater and they didn't let me back in. So I haven't seen the film fully even though I went to the movies for it. And i couldn't find it for 16 years. Thank you,Alex❤
One of the pillars of my childhood. This, robots, bridge to terrebithia, cat woman, astroboy, and a few others are _so_ nostalgic for me. Edit: And the character Mallory is played by an actress who was in an equally ‘fever dreamy’ series called Once Upon A Time. Nostalgia really is cyclical 😆
Arthur and the Invisibles is another one I feel like no one remembers😅. It’s the same lead actor actually, and even though it’s kinda cringy for me now I still quite like it!
my sister forced me to watch this film as a kid and i was TRAUMATISED. i couldn't sleep for a week and whenever she would put the film on, i would run out of the room crying because i was so scared 😭
This film feels like a game you wouldn’t play with your friends when you were 9. Like if you pass this line in the garden the invisible goblins will attack you oh no. And I love that.
My daughter was so deeply into this movie when she was 3 that on her 4th birthday we had the movie on repeat and I found her the field guide book with all the creatures in it. She ran around all day screaming "I have the book!" 😂🤣🤣. We watch it at least once a year.
I was a very nerdy child. The Spiderwick books and extended universe were my absolute jam! After this movie came out, I got the Spiderwick Chronicles video game for my Nindendo DS for Christmas (that I still have in a drawer lol). I remember being so sad that they only made one movie for this series, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and for The Golden Compass! Nerdy childhood nostalgia peak content right here lol! (And yes, I'm still a nerdy bookworm adult, it didn't go away after childhood!) 😂
as a fencer, it always makes me laugh whenever they use fencing swords in movies. girly's sabre is blunt and the tip is folded over. they're designed that way so that they're safe. there is no way known she'd be able to stab shit. the best she could do would be to smack the goblins in the head or maybe poke out an eye or two. it's like walking around with a flicky metal stick - it could do some damage but really it's not sharp at all. (also the way she's swinging it around is killing me but hey. hollywood)
@@AdamAlvarez-hc6kf Yeah but they got theirs via German Academic Fencing aka Mensur which unlike modern olympic sport fencing uses sharp swords. Modern sports fencing swords are not sharp. As op said without protection poking someones eye out is possible but you are not going to actual cut or stab into flesh.
@@AdamAlvarez-hc6kf Actually sharp swords is a hobbyist thing but like not fencing. Fencing is a sport, doing it doesn't necessarily make you also into swords in general. Now a modern fencer could obviously be into historical swords and own actual sharp weapons as well. But nothing makes them more likely than anyone else I don't think. People who do HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) might be the best bet for that.
@@gokbay3057 do you know anywhere where I could find info or videos of historical European martial arts. I didn't even know they had any but I dig martial arts
Same thing happened with Liv and Maddie and for the longest time I used to think they were two different people until I read who played the characters during the intro song
omg this movie is like a fever dream from my childhood I remember having the DVD to this and it genuinely scared me, I miss when movies like this were made
of course i fucking remember this feverdream, a little bit trauma inducing movie...the one where i sometimes wonder if it was actually real or if i just imagined it. that one=
7:37 the part where its chocolate and nuggets.. god I didn't know how much I needed off the wall humor like this (Meanwhile, this human is still recovering from lock down loneliness syndrome, otherwise known as LIFE)
I read the books that came in the Cheerios boxes. Read all the books, loved the pencil sketches in each little book. When the movie premiered, I made my family go and watch it with me. I was the happiest in the movie theater, till the END. I cried my eyes out and still cry with sucha perfect ending. Great video❤ thank you for the memories❤
Well, no better time to mention the other fantasy book turned movie from the mid to late 2000s starring Freddie Highmore "Arthur and the Invisibles". Anyone else remember that one?
Hey! I remember this film! Oh I loved this growing up, but it was only available to me on Netflix for like 2 or 3 years or so. This movie, amongst books and games like Percy Jackson and Assassin’s Creed (the good ones), imbedded a love for mythologies in me. Believe me when I say this: Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) is a fun watch, and while it’s not the best film, it’s still pretty good imo.
To be fair, rebooting this one is more understandable than some of the other reboots since this movie was an adaptation of a five book series and from what I remember, only the first half-ish of the movie followed the books and then just started ignoring them and doing its own thing. There was a t least one book from which not a single plot thread made it into the movie. While I do really like this movie as its own thing, it would be nice to get a more faithful adaptation of the whole series (which I do believe is doable even at the eight episode count as they are very short books) although I’ll be honest, I don’t have much hole for it after seeing it’s a Roku original which I didn’t even know was a thing
It was actually all made by Disney but because of the strike last year they gave up the project and said they wouldn’t release it ever. Like it was just waiting to be released when the strike happened or in post production. I’m not sure how it became a Roku original but they probably just bought it off Disney.
It was going to be a Disney+ show but when Bob Iger returned to Disney he cleaned house. He wanted Disney owned IP only (Percy Jackson is published by Hyperion which is owned by Disney). Paramount holds the rights to Spiderwick and shopped it around after Disney dropped it and it landed at Roku.
But for real, the fantasy setting with established magical creatures and one character going "bUt tHoSE DoN'T ExiSt" when another magical creature is mentioned is my FAVOURITE trope 🤣 The Witcher books have this too, I never get tired of it
I watched this movie years ago, I thought I was the scariest shit I was allowed to watch. I didn't even get the plot back then felt really weird and yeah quite gory
15:58- Lol I guess out of context and by NOT ACTUALLY PAYING ATTENTION TO THE MOVIE, that might be what you thought!?! But I’m pretty sure it was a trick question!?! That or it was something his dad couldn’t tell him over the phone because then he could just hang up and not answer if he didn’t like what he was hearing!!! And “I love you” definitely doesn’t qualify when it comes to a father saying it to his son!!!
I remembered the books bc the paper of the pages were wildly different sizes on purpose, and the paper was thick, to mimic the journal: but it was functionally papercut-bait. I would focus to not cut myself, so now they’re seared in my memory
Oh. My. God. This was literally one of those things I kept thinking of in the back of my head but didn't know the name or if it was a hallucination. Bless your heart Alex, now I can sleep in peace 😂❤
The absolute dread I felt seeing Arthur Spiderwick realize it had been 80 years when to him it only felt like two days.😱 reminded me of an old Irish fairy tale my grandmother used to tell me.
@LowResCatExplosion he's a doctor, but he's a savant type character. Super smart, but terrible social skills and he can't interact with patients or fellow colleagues well. He has a tragic backstory involving a dead brother and an abusive father, he became a surgeon but he's constantly getting into issues due his social limitations, and they are VERY limited. Like this dude would not at all be a surgeon, doctor or anyone who interacted with patients first hand. He could be a consultant, but his social hangup causes issues constantly throughout the entire show. He's incredibly logical with the way he sees things and quite child like? It may just be the actor but yeah. I say all of this but I don't know the context behind the actual scene, maybe they were going to fire him or something, he was getting stressed out but couldn't actively show his emotions so he just started screaming and saying he's a surgeon as thats all he knows is true or something, idfk.
@LowResCatExplosion I've only seen bits and pieces, and only the full first few episodes, and they are rude to him right from the get go. Everyone is just really mean to him becuase that's just thw hospital cut throat world, he isn't adapting to that because he's autistic, and people continue to constantly be snippy with him for no reason or, several reasons lol. But from the beginning, they treated him like crap. Like he came in late to work becuase the bus was late and the person walking with him said that wasn't her problem and he needed to be on time, and he's tism so 'routine routine routine' they just grabbed the most popular traits from autism and blotches it all together. There was even an episode where he kept misgendering a patient cuz she was trans and had a wiener. Like bro, you went through medical school. You learned about transgender and intersex people. *what the actual fuck* I'm sure at the end of the day no matter what he does is hand waved cuz tism...cuz that's what all of the other shows do too. It's also very odd from what I've seen how often people don't realize he's autistic. Like, trying to hold full conversations with him when it's clear he had no interest in what theyre talking about or get mad at his responses to certain things but irl, there was actually a study done that showed that neurotypicals treat nuerodivergent people differently even when they don't know they're autistic. They automactally sense something different and engage with them less. (Which as someone who is constantly wondering if theyre autistic, damn) So the fact that all of these people are holding one sided condos with this is so dumb.
@@itsanoformedawg (admittedly I watched the episode ages ago) but I’m pretty sure it was said by one of the characters that they didn’t teach about trans people at medical school and complaining about the fact/ignorance (which was either made up because medical show inaccuracy or they just didn’t in the early 2010’s if you didn’t do a relevant speciality) Tbh the main reason I remember it is because I kept thinking why tf was no one telling him to leave and having a word about it in the hallway
I’m so glad you did a video on this movie because it was filmed in my dads hometown. Whenever we watch it it’s so cool because we’re able to recognize most of the places in the movie.
Some of the ideas from this movie made their way deep into my memorie and I even ended up using them in my D&D campaigns. But I couldn't remember what movie I took them from. And now it's all come together - and I have such a warm feeling in my heart, which... I can't really describe. But it's really warm. I need to rewatch the movie.)
this movie gave me nightmares! when my mum used to send me to my room, id sit against the door scared invisible creatures would try and get me. boy was childhood a good time.
NEVER seen the Good Doctor outside of Facebook clips, and you really helped clear up where I saw his face 😂 Edit: also the "Fake Dad" reveal walked so Azazel playing John Winchester, but being "too nice" could run
This completely threw me into a nostalgia moment because when I was in Elementary school, I always saw these books on the shelves of the school library and I'd always take a look at them. I was too dumb to understand any of them so I don't remember any of the books I read.
I remember re-watching this with my girlfriend at the time when I was about 20. The nostalgia was thru the roof but I do remember how enthralled I was with the world this film conveyed.
The books are awesome and the film still seems closer to the books than the upcoming tv series. I still love the film too though 😆 “Doing her very important job of locating random keys on the keyboard” is just great 😆
absolutely adored this film growing up and i used to ‘play’ spiderwick with my friends 😅😅 honestly it still holds up for me !!!!! literally haven’t even heard of this reboot, says a lot i think……….
I had a copy of the book they used to identify creatures in the movie and since I lived on a farm for a while as a kid it was absolutely incredible to walk around and find plants that seemed like they could be a creature from another world hidden right under our noses
I somehow use to love this movie as a kid, I think it was because it was so different from other movies. This and "Bridge to Terabithia" gave the same kind of feeling
Man I loved The Spiderwick Chronicles. I watched the movie so many times, I owned hardcover copies of the books and even stole The Field Guide book from my library (I never returned it and the moved to a different town) I wanted so bad to believe that the creatures were real.
this is the kind of movie you accidentally watched as a kid, forgot about, and thought was a fever dream until you re-discover it again 20 years later
EXACTLY.
that's exactly what i commented
THATS WHAT HAPPENED TO ME
I do and I still love that movie it raised me
Yup-
Did nobody read the books!? They were AMAZING. Not just well written but also beautifully styled with pencil drawn artworks that immersed you so deeply
omg! As a kid I would love to have this
I read them, which is why i never saw the movie 😂
the art was so pretty, have you seen the drawings in arthurs field guide? the art is even prettier in colour. I think most people that liked the movie didn't actually read the books.
They were awesome along with the lemony snicket series
@@avengefullgirl95same here
The concept of stepping away from a line and the monsters will get you was so terrifying to me as a kid
Especially if the monsters are invincible, which makes it hard to figure out when is it safe to walk out and how to fight them.😬
And my only hope...
To me it was Arthur realizing 80 years had gone by and he thought it had just been a day or two. Horrific.
That line was the edge of my bed at night! Every night!😂
True, but still that scene with Thimbletack going into murderous rage was still somehow the scariest part of the movie for me, lmao, I had NIGHTMARES because of this little dude😂😭
Personally I love the fact that they knew the dad wouldn't say he loved him there. It's my favorite thing in these types of stories where it's not "the magic fairies fixed our broken family" but "the magic fairies helped us process the problems in our family so we can accept it as it is"
They didn't get their dad back, but the kids did end up with a different dynamic that no longer required the dad to come back and "save" his son
I was obsessed with Spidwewick as a child. I watched the movie, read all the books, had the feild guide and talked about it pretty much non-stop. 😂
Oh god. The field guide! The nostalgia.
same, i still have the field guide on my bookshelf right now. good times.
I didnt know you could buy a field guide. I ended up making my own one 😅
I had to hunt down to find the Field Guide, it wasn't easy to find.
This was my favourite as a child but it still feels like a fever dream
Such a good way to put it.
My farts are better than Alex's farts.
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Same, it was one of my most watched movie as a kid lol
REAL BRO! I remember watching it but it feels like centuries ago, like you said, a fever dream
Out of all the fantasy films that came in the wake of Rings/Potter, Spiderwick Chronicles is the one I feel is the most underrated. Whereas so many other were bogged down with too much setup for sequels that never happened, Spiderwick was like "yeah, we're going to explain the world, tell a complete story, have an emotional heartbeat and be a thrill-a-minute all in less than two hours." And boy, did they pull it off.
I think what's great is that you didn't necessarily need to read the books for the movie to make sense. They basically took all 5 books & were able to make a cohesive movie.
@@TwiggyHetfield27 yeah, but i wouldn't complain if they made complete redo of series, with each book having it's own movie, i also would like a new movie series of Eragon
edit: i wrote this commend just after getting in video, so like 0:02 :P
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I'd love a better adaptation of the Inheritance Cycle
@@helixsol7171 The result of my most recent visit to the toilet was a better adaptation of the inheritance cycle so I don't think that will be particularly difficult
Actually the Film was supposed to be based on book one and two only but then they figured they should round up the end (or maybe thought they would not get the money for following films) and then they just left out book three and four. So the end is sort of like in book five, but with more changes, to complete the film.
This and Lemony Snicket were surprisingly very good at cramming several books into one movie without making it feel too rushed or have underdeveloped characters
They are pretty short books iirc
@@Pandemia616they are. Sadly they had to cut the entirety of the 4th book, which deviates heavily from the main plot. It’s a shame because it’s my favourite of the series and goes into the world of terrestrial gnomes.
The disrespect to Bates Motel is insaneee....called him the Surgeon guy 😂
1 meme recked bros whole career 🤣
CHAHLEE
@@TheRealLastJedi721 😭😭😭
yooo he and Vera were soo good
Can't disrespect that shitweasel enough, so I think it's fair.
“ he loves trains and legos and hates social interaction. What could that possibly mean? It’s 2008, no body cares. “ that killed me.
Genuinely the best joke in the vid
I'm surprised you didn't mention the scene where Mallory's hair got tied to the bed. That scene terrified me as a kid and It's still the first thing I think about whenever I remember the film.
Also people referring to the actor as the "good doctor" dude and not Charlie from Charlie and the chocolate factory hurts my soul.
@@chr1s415 I was forced to watch August Rush every time there was a substitute in band class.
I feel bad for him, he has an extremely intensely acting career but has been pretty much put in a box bc of that character
I feel less bad remembering what he feels an autistic person is tho. Plus he supports autism speaks
hes in so much stuff, a lot of movies from that time seemed to either have him or that guy from enders game in it.
Wasn't he also in Finding Neverland with Johnny Depp?
Yea, I remember him having his "greatest thing since sliced bread" moment as a young actor.
"Simon, don't you want to know where this goes?"
"Not really."
Kid is a whole mood, lol.
He'd be excellent in a horror movie, only survivor.
"want to go in the basement?"
"nah i'm good"
"want to read this magic book?"
"nah i'm good"
"i don't do conflits". He's the best of us
Simon tried to steal a book… A BOOK! I mean, I know his life was on the line and he was scared, confused and doesn’t understand anything that is happening right now but… yeah I got nothing.
I don’t remember jared having a twin in this movie. Completely 100% forgot that.
Same! I don't think I even realized they were twins😂😂
Bruh same 😭🤣
Same!
Samesies
same...
This movie legitimately traumatized me as a kid. I remember being terrified that there was something in my walls. The goblins didn't scare me it was just the fact something could be in my walls.
Same i was so fuckin scared, but i kept rewatching it
For so long, I thought this movie was a nightmare when I was a kid. Until I walked in on my sibling watching it one day, I was so confused that day
I actually really liked this movie when I was a kid. It was a fun, whimsy adventure, a shame that it never got the recognition it deserved
I once met Holly Black, the author of the Spiderwick Chronicles. I actually met her not long after the movie came out. She's a super sweet person. When I met her, she looked exactly like you would imagine the author of the Spiderwick Chronicles would look like, but her personality was very bright and cheery. She has a very intense love for unicorns and Martha Stewart, which explains the presence for some of the cuter fairies in the book.
Anyway, she was incredibly happy with this movie. I think she was more flattered than anything that her series received such a level of fame that a movie was made out of it. It was interesting watching her eyes sparkle when I asked her about her thoughts on the film. I, myself, was not a fan of this movie. It tried really hard to condense a full series into a single film and it reduced a lot of the plot, locations, and characters as a result. Still, Holly Black loved this film and she deserves nothing but the best in this world for the pure sunshine that she is. I hope she's happy with this remake.
I loved her "Folk of the Air" series.
I never knew that this was from a series by Holly Black😮
@@marythewinter I heavily recommend it.
Holly Black made this series!?!? I’ve come full circle. Read the whole series as a kid (I needed the reading points) and then read the cursed Prince series as an adult 🤣 This woman knows what’s up with fantasy books! 🤌🏼
This movie SHAPED MY CHILDHOOD HOW DARE YOU YOU SAY IT’S FORGETTABLE
Yeah to say “no one” is such a bold statement 😭😂💕
Never heard of this movie until now and I'm 30 🤣
Yeah, I used to love it. Even had the Playstation game for it.
EXACTLY, THE AUDACITY???
thank u it hurts seeing people say that spiderwick dont go hard asf
I actually watched this with my dad while I was in college. I was living in Oakland and my dad was commuting to San Francisco for a work project. We were hanging out one weekend in the city and he said “let’s catch a movie.” I said sure, you’re paying, waddaya wanna watch? Yep, we ended up watching this, in iMax lol. One of my best memories of spending quality time with him, just the two of us. RIP, dad. Thanks for everything.
THIS MOVIE WAS JUST A CRUCIAL PART OF MY CHILDHOOD WHAT-
i remember having a little sketchbook with very badly drawn creatures and putting on my dad's glasses to "see" the goblins
The way I made my parents stockpile tomato sauce just incase goblins attacked my house was crazy
The way I started getting really into the real life lore about all the supernatural topics in this film and learned why they used salt to line the entry ways to their homes and the circles and started using actual witchy warding to protect our house from demons
When I was a kid and obsessed with this movie, my mom and I actually made a bucket of the tomato bombs that they made in the movie for the big fight against the Goblins. I didn’t use them, obviously because it would’ve made a big mess around the house and even in the backyard, so they eventually went bad and got mold on them after a few days and we threw them out.
I remember I used to go to our local library just to read all the books about the creatures, because I thought they were actually real and was so deeply interested, but also slightly scared, I absolutely loved these stories they were so whimsical to me as a kid
me salt in the windows then claiming I didn’t know who put them there 😂
Man, Mark Waters was on fire in the 2000s. Freaky Friday, Mean Girls, Spiderwick Chronicles, that's basically my childhood right there.
Quite the jump to go from Freaky Friday and Mean Girls to this.
You taking mark waters or Frankie Muniz
"Ah back when time's made sense"
My farts are better than Alex's farts.
@@p-__ did I ask
Whenever anyone asked me what my favorite movies are, I always tell them:
-Spiderwick Chronicles;
-Chronicle (2012);
-Bridge to Terabithia;
chroncile is so fire
The amount of nostalgia I’m getting from watching this is crazy. I used to love this movie but that being said, it scared the absolute shit out of me. And it was on my mind ALL the time
I could only remember a small part of this movie and no one would believe me that it was real
My farts are better than Alex's farts.
THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME I WAS ASKING MY FAM ABT WHAT MOVIE THE SCENE I RMENWBRWS FROM ANS THEY WERE ALL LIKE ????
OMG SAMMEEEE for a long time this movie was just a blurry memory and I wasn’t sure if it was even real 😂
Same with Batteries Not Included.
This was basically Gravity Falls before Gravity falls was a thing at least for me cause this movie basically ignited my passion for a good documentary mystical story or whatever genre GF was. It also spiraled me into reading the books and also thanks to Snicket's story I was roped into the mystery of the overall story.
Mysterious author of a journal with information of the supernatural, fantasy creatures and monsters, protagonist is a young boy who discovers the journal, family dynamics, villain that's after the journal, magic, a huge house in the middle of the woods. It's all there! I love the Spiderwick Chronicles and Gravity Falls, they were my childhood.
@@Luna-Tic-YT dude not being dead but lost.
Yeah I know I was thinking that while watching this and hoping that someone else had the same idea. Alex Hirsch must have watched this or something they are too similar for it to just be a coincidence.
“I just wanted to tell you I love you.”
“Wrong answer!” 🔪
Pretty badass for a kid’s movie.
I'll bet the reboot won't have nearly as much edge.
@@cartooncritique6625Edge. I see what you did there! 😂
There is something kind of cathartic watching a kid get to shank a facsimile of their crappy father. I’m sure a lot of children of divorce healed watching that movie.
It’s you who’s out, Gobby. Out of your mind!
WRONG ANSWER!
OMFG I LITERALLY WAS THINKING OF THIS YESTERDAY LIKE “Hmm what the hell was that film called..?” AND THIS POPPED UP AND OMG IM SO HAPPY
Hey I remember watching this as a kid! I loved it when I was little. My mind was blown away that Jared and Simon were played by the same kid. I didn’t even know it was possible!
...I miss having that childhood wonder.
Real talk: How many of us would definitely think "Nope, a mystical shapechanging creature" if our dads said they loved us. 😂😂
considering i dont have a dad it would be highly suspicious. 🤔
I mean I'd probably think someone needs a kidney or something.
It makes a lot of sense if you have the context of this movie
If it was spoken with absolute clarity I would.
Me. 🖐
It is insane how much and how little I remember from this movie. I remember the mushroom circle, the sister getting attacked and the scene with the dad. Those bits have lived in my mind for the past 15 years, other than that, nothing. Not the name of the movie, not the main cast, nor the overall plot.
ME TOO I barely remember anything but the sister getting attacked, the mushroom circle, and some vague scene of a kid in a cage and one of the trolls eating a leg or something? Have all stuck with me somehow. Idk why that movie had an effect on me but it did lol I’m glad to see someone with the same relationship with it, I still think of it when I see a few mushrooms in a row 😭😭
I remember the mushroom circle and the honey part. That’s it. The same thing with the Eragon movie(I remember liking it as a kid but honestly rewatching it shows me how much the books were better)
Besides being kinda violent for a kids' movie, it also had the balls to address divorce in a mature way and realistically depicted the hurt that the father caused his children by essentially abandoning them. Lots of other movies at the time were fine with divorce being depicted as something the kids just needed to suck up and get over for the plot to happen. Here the son lets out all his anger and confusion by literally stabbing his good for nothing "father". Kinda heavy stuff.
Yeah, and it also didn't force parents back together. Most movies with divorcees would either go "suck it up" route or "aww, so they do love each other" route, which is really not ideal for kids actually living in such situations
This movie and Wrinkle In Time both feel like complete fever dreams to me. Like they just don’t seem like they exist in reality
I read a wrinkle in time. It was amazing. Didn't watch the movie though.
I watched this when I was like 5 with my brother and it traumatized and intrigued me and now here I am interested in cryptids and folklore
I watched this movie, The Golden Compass, and The Water Horse on repeat as a kid. So many times. Any time my parents let me chose the movie it would be one of those 3.
I could have sworn the golden compass was a weird dream i had
Oh man, the Water Horse, it’s been so long since I’ve seen that.
OH MY GOD the Water Horse I remember that movie ! Good times
Holyshit, I've completely forgotten about The Water Horse until now. I didn't even know that was the title lmao
And the original Series of Unfortunate Events!
I still occasionally qoute 'Book, book, book BOOK BOOK BOOK!' It's just such a fun line lmao
I sometimes chant mulgarath over and over for literally no reason other than the impact this movie had on my childhood
Give me...the book!
I can never forget spiderwick chronicles. It’s a childhood favorite.
I really liked the Movie and remember the Game being somewhat decent aswell
10:50 in Germany we have Sanatoriums in the Middle of some Towns. Sometimes the Town isn't being notified that a Building is converted into one and then the Patients flee and knock on Peoples Doors. Europe is a Wild Place.
My god what I remember most clearly from this movie was the ad that the theater must’ve accidentally looped or something right before it started, bc this ad must have played like 15 times. “The all new Chevy Malibu 😤” haunts me to this day
I recommend the fairyopolis books to anyone who has ever dreamed of owning the book in the movie. Its basically a journal about fairies with interactable bits like envelopes/ letters. As a kid who loved the magical creatures and aspects of this movie, i always had the second fairyopolis book checked out. I believe the author has other books about different subjects like dragons and i think there's one about pirates.
They made the field guide a real book called The Sipderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide. Its like $20 on Amazon.
There is actually also one from this universe called "Field Guide" and it’s fully beautifully illustrated by the co-author of the original books :) it’s kinda like a bestiary, full of faerie creatures
They made an actual Spiderwick Field-guide. And the illustrations in it are beautiful.
that sounds like journal 3 from gravity falls
Yeah, it’s kinda similar! Though the illustrations lean more to something like fine art with additional sketches and the whole thing is beautiful and has this amazing forgotten fantasy vibe ❤ (illustrations are by Tony DiTerlizzi)
They absolutely wanted to get Dylan and Cole Sprouse, but Nick couldn’t get them because they belonged to Disney
Spiderwick Chronicles!?!?!?! I love that movie!!!
I saw it in theaters opening weekend! Good times.
That movie was awsome
My farts are better than Alex's farts.
@@p-__stop saying that.
Same! Also anyone else remember Arthur And The Invisibles? It’s another one of those fantasy movies for kids that I feel like nobody I know remembers 😅
15:40 BRRRUUHHH "MY DAD WOULD NEVER SAY THAT" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I have been looking for this movie since I was 7!!!
I went to see this film to the cinema when I was 7 with my family and I was so scared during it that I had to walk out the theater and they didn't let me back in. So I haven't seen the film fully even though I went to the movies for it.
And i couldn't find it for 16 years.
Thank you,Alex❤
One of the pillars of my childhood. This, robots, bridge to terrebithia, cat woman, astroboy, and a few others are _so_ nostalgic for me.
Edit: And the character Mallory is played by an actress who was in an equally ‘fever dreamy’ series called Once Upon A Time. Nostalgia really is cyclical 😆
My farts are better than Alex's farts.
Wrd to my mother. I have the same movies on my list
Pillars of my childhood were Over the hedge, this movie, Spiderman trilogy and I robot
Arthur and the Invisibles is another one I feel like no one remembers😅. It’s the same lead actor actually, and even though it’s kinda cringy for me now I still quite like it!
holy heck once upon a time is the jam
my sister forced me to watch this film as a kid and i was TRAUMATISED.
i couldn't sleep for a week and whenever she would put the film on, i would run out of the room crying because i was so scared 😭
This film feels like a game you wouldn’t play with your friends when you were 9. Like if you pass this line in the garden the invisible goblins will attack you oh no. And I love that.
My daughter was so deeply into this movie when she was 3 that on her 4th birthday we had the movie on repeat and I found her the field guide book with all the creatures in it. She ran around all day screaming "I have the book!" 😂🤣🤣. We watch it at least once a year.
I love this movie but it’s to the point where I only remember select parts of it like it never happened
I was a very nerdy child. The Spiderwick books and extended universe were my absolute jam! After this movie came out, I got the Spiderwick Chronicles video game for my Nindendo DS for Christmas (that I still have in a drawer lol). I remember being so sad that they only made one movie for this series, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and for The Golden Compass! Nerdy childhood nostalgia peak content right here lol! (And yes, I'm still a nerdy bookworm adult, it didn't go away after childhood!) 😂
I think a series of unfortunate events has a TV series as well, right?
@@Ilostmycatand the golden compass show is pretty good too. The new percy jackson show isnt terrible. We eatin good.
This movie is so easy to remeber and forget all at the same time
"Who knows? It's 2008, no one cares!" hits me right in the feels :(
He means autism right?
@@christiangomez320 Kinda ironic considering the actor's terrible view on autistic people.
I sure remember it, loved that movie as a kid, I watched it RELIGIOUSLY, it's just so good omg
Spiderwick is one of my childhood favorites. And is also the reason why griffins are my favorite animal.
as a fencer, it always makes me laugh whenever they use fencing swords in movies. girly's sabre is blunt and the tip is folded over. they're designed that way so that they're safe. there is no way known she'd be able to stab shit. the best she could do would be to smack the goblins in the head or maybe poke out an eye or two. it's like walking around with a flicky metal stick - it could do some damage but really it's not sharp at all. (also the way she's swinging it around is killing me but hey. hollywood)
Legit question. Isn't the reason nazis in movies and stuff always have face scars because the real ones got them from fencing duels?
@@AdamAlvarez-hc6kf Yeah but they got theirs via German Academic Fencing aka Mensur which unlike modern olympic sport fencing uses sharp swords. Modern sports fencing swords are not sharp. As op said without protection poking someones eye out is possible but you are not going to actual cut or stab into flesh.
@@gokbay3057 I was just thinking someone that into fencing may have like collectables or something ya know
@@AdamAlvarez-hc6kf Actually sharp swords is a hobbyist thing but like not fencing. Fencing is a sport, doing it doesn't necessarily make you also into swords in general. Now a modern fencer could obviously be into historical swords and own actual sharp weapons as well. But nothing makes them more likely than anyone else I don't think.
People who do HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) might be the best bet for that.
@@gokbay3057 do you know anywhere where I could find info or videos of historical European martial arts. I didn't even know they had any but I dig martial arts
This is where I realise that the brothers were twins played by the same actor. I never noticed after watching it all the time as a kid
Same thing happened with Liv and Maddie and for the longest time I used to think they were two different people until I read who played the characters during the intro song
omg this movie is like a fever dream from my childhood I remember having the DVD to this and it genuinely scared me, I miss when movies like this were made
Don't use God's name in vain
of course i fucking remember this feverdream, a little bit trauma inducing movie...the one where i sometimes wonder if it was actually real or if i just imagined it. that one=
7:37 the part where its chocolate and nuggets.. god I didn't know how much I needed off the wall humor like this
(Meanwhile, this human is still recovering from lock down loneliness syndrome, otherwise known as LIFE)
Freddie Highmore was also Norman Bates in Bates Motel.
I read the books that came in the Cheerios boxes. Read all the books, loved the pencil sketches in each little book. When the movie premiered, I made my family go and watch it with me. I was the happiest in the movie theater, till the END. I cried my eyes out and still cry with sucha perfect ending. Great video❤ thank you for the memories❤
Alex’s videos are always somehow the place where i find out that there’s a new reboot coming soon
Well, no better time to mention the other fantasy book turned movie from the mid to late 2000s starring Freddie Highmore "Arthur and the Invisibles". Anyone else remember that one?
Hey! I remember this film! Oh I loved this growing up, but it was only available to me on Netflix for like 2 or 3 years or so. This movie, amongst books and games like Percy Jackson and Assassin’s Creed (the good ones), imbedded a love for mythologies in me. Believe me when I say this: Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) is a fun watch, and while it’s not the best film, it’s still pretty good imo.
To be fair, rebooting this one is more understandable than some of the other reboots since this movie was an adaptation of a five book series and from what I remember, only the first half-ish of the movie followed the books and then just started ignoring them and doing its own thing. There was a t least one book from which not a single plot thread made it into the movie. While I do really like this movie as its own thing, it would be nice to get a more faithful adaptation of the whole series (which I do believe is doable even at the eight episode count as they are very short books) although I’ll be honest, I don’t have much hole for it after seeing it’s a Roku original which I didn’t even know was a thing
The weird Al movie is also a Roku original
It was actually all made by Disney but because of the strike last year they gave up the project and said they wouldn’t release it ever. Like it was just waiting to be released when the strike happened or in post production. I’m not sure how it became a Roku original but they probably just bought it off Disney.
It was going to be a Disney+ show but when Bob Iger returned to Disney he cleaned house. He wanted Disney owned IP only (Percy Jackson is published by Hyperion which is owned by Disney). Paramount holds the rights to Spiderwick and shopped it around after Disney dropped it and it landed at Roku.
But for real, the fantasy setting with established magical creatures and one character going "bUt tHoSE DoN'T ExiSt" when another magical creature is mentioned is my FAVOURITE trope 🤣 The Witcher books have this too, I never get tired of it
People doubt a mythical creature in the Witcher? A world absolutely full of them?
I never got to watch this movie, but I saw the trailer on my DVD of the act of terrorism that was Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
Oh no never watched that one
Same!
To be fair I ONLY enjoyed that movie because of Ian 😂
2D!
I watched this movie years ago, I thought I was the scariest shit I was allowed to watch. I didn't even get the plot back then felt really weird and yeah quite gory
12:35-39 *Jared*: he had a pet.”
*Mallory*: a pet? *And Fluffy the dog* is going to save us!?*”🤣🤣
Idk why that line always cracks me up 😂
This movie is the pure essence of nostalgia for me
I remember the Spiderwick Chronicles very vividly as it was the first and only movie that's given me nightmares.
Mine was the wizard of Oz
My siblings and I quoted "we means you" anytime we had to cleanup anything at all. We still do to this day
Shut up you're not my real dad🎵🎶.That got me cracking 🤣
15:58- Lol I guess out of context and by NOT ACTUALLY PAYING ATTENTION TO THE MOVIE, that might be what you thought!?! But I’m pretty sure it was a trick question!?! That or it was something his dad couldn’t tell him over the phone because then he could just hang up and not answer if he didn’t like what he was hearing!!! And “I love you” definitely doesn’t qualify when it comes to a father saying it to his son!!!
I remembered the books bc the paper of the pages were wildly different sizes on purpose, and the paper was thick, to mimic the journal: but it was functionally papercut-bait. I would focus to not cut myself, so now they’re seared in my memory
I’ve still got it on dvd from back in the day. It holds a close place in my heart. The books were great. The movie was fun. I can never hate on it
Oh. My. God. This was literally one of those things I kept thinking of in the back of my head but didn't know the name or if it was a hallucination.
Bless your heart Alex, now I can sleep in peace 😂❤
I literally watched it on TV when I was little. And now it came suddenly on my mind and tried to look it up. found it😂
The absolute dread I felt seeing Arthur Spiderwick realize it had been 80 years when to him it only felt like two days.😱 reminded me of an old Irish fairy tale my grandmother used to tell me.
I hate you for making me watch through that entire "i am a surgeon" scene omfg
Omg same. I almost cried the first time I watched it on the show, and I almost cried this time too
What is that show even about? Every clip I've seen is just some hospital employees kicking the metaphorical shit out of their autistic coworker
@LowResCatExplosion he's a doctor, but he's a savant type character. Super smart, but terrible social skills and he can't interact with patients or fellow colleagues well. He has a tragic backstory involving a dead brother and an abusive father, he became a surgeon but he's constantly getting into issues due his social limitations, and they are VERY limited. Like this dude would not at all be a surgeon, doctor or anyone who interacted with patients first hand. He could be a consultant, but his social hangup causes issues constantly throughout the entire show. He's incredibly logical with the way he sees things and quite child like? It may just be the actor but yeah. I say all of this but I don't know the context behind the actual scene, maybe they were going to fire him or something, he was getting stressed out but couldn't actively show his emotions so he just started screaming and saying he's a surgeon as thats all he knows is true or something, idfk.
@LowResCatExplosion I've only seen bits and pieces, and only the full first few episodes, and they are rude to him right from the get go. Everyone is just really mean to him becuase that's just thw hospital cut throat world, he isn't adapting to that because he's autistic, and people continue to constantly be snippy with him for no reason or, several reasons lol. But from the beginning, they treated him like crap. Like he came in late to work becuase the bus was late and the person walking with him said that wasn't her problem and he needed to be on time, and he's tism so 'routine routine routine' they just grabbed the most popular traits from autism and blotches it all together. There was even an episode where he kept misgendering a patient cuz she was trans and had a wiener. Like bro, you went through medical school. You learned about transgender and intersex people. *what the actual fuck* I'm sure at the end of the day no matter what he does is hand waved cuz tism...cuz that's what all of the other shows do too. It's also very odd from what I've seen how often people don't realize he's autistic. Like, trying to hold full conversations with him when it's clear he had no interest in what theyre talking about or get mad at his responses to certain things but irl, there was actually a study done that showed that neurotypicals treat nuerodivergent people differently even when they don't know they're autistic. They automactally sense something different and engage with them less. (Which as someone who is constantly wondering if theyre autistic, damn) So the fact that all of these people are holding one sided condos with this is so dumb.
@@itsanoformedawg (admittedly I watched the episode ages ago) but I’m pretty sure it was said by one of the characters that they didn’t teach about trans people at medical school and complaining about the fact/ignorance (which was either made up because medical show inaccuracy or they just didn’t in the early 2010’s if you didn’t do a relevant speciality)
Tbh the main reason I remember it is because I kept thinking why tf was no one telling him to leave and having a word about it in the hallway
I’m so glad you did a video on this movie because it was filmed in my dads hometown. Whenever we watch it it’s so cool because we’re able to recognize most of the places in the movie.
I remember when flying to Europe, the plane had this film playing on loop; for 13+ hours... Along with Mulan
Some of the ideas from this movie made their way deep into my memorie and I even ended up using them in my D&D campaigns. But I couldn't remember what movie I took them from. And now it's all come together - and I have such a warm feeling in my heart, which... I can't really describe. But it's really warm.
I need to rewatch the movie.)
this movie gave me nightmares! when my mum used to send me to my room, id sit against the door scared invisible creatures would try and get me. boy was childhood a good time.
NO WHY ARE THEY REBOOTING MY CHILDHOOD UGH
NEVER seen the Good Doctor outside of Facebook clips, and you really helped clear up where I saw his face 😂
Edit: also the "Fake Dad" reveal walked so Azazel playing John Winchester, but being "too nice" could run
6:59 "I'm gonna go play with my calculator"🤓
LMAO that part made me laugh so hard😭
This completely threw me into a nostalgia moment because when I was in Elementary school, I always saw these books on the shelves of the school library and I'd always take a look at them. I was too dumb to understand any of them so I don't remember any of the books I read.
I remember re-watching this with my girlfriend at the time when I was about 20. The nostalgia was thru the roof but I do remember how enthralled I was with the world this film conveyed.
The books are awesome and the film still seems closer to the books than the upcoming tv series.
I still love the film too though 😆
“Doing her very important job of locating random keys on the keyboard” is just great 😆
That joke about his dad made me crack out laughing 😂 it was really well done! Always love your humor Alex! Keep going man❤
absolutely adored this film growing up and i used to ‘play’ spiderwick with my friends 😅😅 honestly it still holds up for me !!!!! literally haven’t even heard of this reboot, says a lot i think……….
I had a copy of the book they used to identify creatures in the movie and since I lived on a farm for a while as a kid it was absolutely incredible to walk around and find plants that seemed like they could be a creature from another world hidden right under our noses
Saw this when it premiered. Never forgotten. Jsut sitting on the shelf next to the pretty girl from bridge to terrabithia
I somehow use to love this movie as a kid, I think it was because it was so different from other movies. This and "Bridge to Terabithia" gave the same kind of feeling
Man I loved The Spiderwick Chronicles. I watched the movie so many times, I owned hardcover copies of the books and even stole The Field Guide book from my library (I never returned it and the moved to a different town) I wanted so bad to believe that the creatures were real.
We had those 6 books too. All five kids ( my siblings and I) read it at some point I believe.
Bro I remember watching this when I was little 😭
I rewatched this movie when I had food poisoning. Woke up at 1am and watched this. Fever dream for real. I still love it, though
i never forgot about this movie/game/book i loved the ps2 game