I won't deny that it's a reasonably high-quality movie (I have some thematic nits to pick with it that prevent me from saying it was "good"), but it wasn't the movie we wanted to see that day. Neither of us had read the book, or knew anything about it beyond that it existed, so the only expectations we had were the ones given us by the advertising. Someone obviously dropped the ball there, though I'm not sure if it helped or hurt ticket sales.

The Spiderwick Chronicles was more like what we were looking for, and we quite enjoyed that one.