The Spiderwick Chronicles

"It may not touching you, but it works on me."

"The Spiderwick Chronicles"
What's mean "Spiderwick" anyway? to annoy a spider? The movie is talking about the records on annoying a spider? or being annoyed by spider? Ohh... I was confused!
The worst was when I was buying the ticket from cinema counter, the sweet ladies was asking,"Spider? How many person?". (OMG, should I go on with this, or should I wait for next show, 10,000 BC ?)

I'm glad that I didn't change my mind. That's really a good adventurous movie. Quite fascinated to children and teenages. "Spiderwick" was actually a man's name, who had finished his whole life searching and discovering on unseen creatures surrounding him -- fairies and monsters. He had managed to gained friendship with fairies and recorded down all his finding in a book, that's included the secret and weakness of all these fairies and monsters. So, the book had hold the keys, and the monsters wanna have it to destroy all the fairies. Meanwhile, the fairies also worried if the monsters had grabbed this book and reveal their secret and weakness. In order to protect themselves, they brought away Mr.Spiderwick from his daughter, Lucinda.

80 years later, Spiderwick's grand niece, Helen was just separated with her husband in New York, and moved into his house with her daughter, Mallory and her twins son, Jared and Simon. Initially, Jared was misunderstood with her mom, Helen, thought it was all her mom's fault and failure on parentship. And, he was unpleased for moving into this old house. In the 1st.night of their moving in, Jared had accidently discovered her grand grand uncle Spiderwick's book. He was warned ( by a note on the cover of the book) not to read it, but he ignored. ( BTW, if he don't, the story won't able to continue ^^) Then, weird things kept rolling. He'd met Thimbletak, a servant to Spiderwick who loved honey so much. Hogsqueal, a funny monster (good one, according to him, Mulgarath had killed his family) who like to eat birds. And, attacks from Mulgarath and it's monster troops.

Jared and his sister, Mallory and his twins brother, Simon had tried finding help from Spiderwick and Lucinda to fight back with the monsters, but it seem like this father and daughter can't really help them up, and the ultimate fights had to count on themselve. Eventually, they'd convinced their mom, Helen on the existing of all those monsters, and whole family had get together, with the knowledge from the book, fighting with all those powerful monsters.

Other than that, this adventurous story also carried with 2 romance elements. First one is the relationship between Jared and his parents. Jared was hoping his father will come to the house and bring him along, and he also blamed his mom on breaking down their relationship. Only after his sister, Mallory had reveal the truth that it was actually his father had abandoned them, and living with another woman.

The second one is the relationship between Spiderwick and his daughter, Lucinda. When Spiderwick was bringing away by fairies, he promised to his daughter, Lucinda that he will come back one day. Lucinda was so believed on that, and hoping one day his father will return to her again. But, Spiderwick was never show up during this 80 years of waiting. He was actually scrutinised by the fairies and was kept in a far away land, because he had known so much of their secrets. He was only awaked 80 years later, when Jared and Mallory succeed to find him with help from his pet, a giant bird. At the ending of the movie, he appeared again in front of his daughter to ask for her forgiveness, but that would be the last meeting with his daughter, as granted by the fairies. And, furthermore, he was already more than a hundred years old, even though his appearance was never changed by aging. If he resume to the real world, his body might not affortable. However, his daughter, Lucinda who had forgiven him, finally had requested him to bring her along. He was happy to offer his hands and eventually, this couple of father and daughter, after 80 years of waiting, had finally holding hand in hand, disappeared away with happiness. I was so touching with their final meeting, and almost cry inside the dark theater, thinking on my little Eunice. Can't wait to run back, hugging her, giving her a long kiss on her face.

The story of Spiderwick with his daughter, Lucinda, could be too common to you. It may not touching you, but it works on me.