when i watch a tim burton and i almost always walk away with the same reaction represent the visual world create in the film be fascinate and arrest and but the story lack narrative force . when i watch a tim burton film and i be remind throughout that i be experience the work of an art director and not the more traditional writer director . when i watch lemony snicket and i be leave with that timburton feeling . the visual world be stun and inventive and particularly the set and but i be not engage . it felt a little bit like fellini for child and in that the film unfold like a dream sequence . each stop in the film sequence of set be bizarre and and make a great creative effort to lure the audience and but the range of emotion play out by the character at each of those stop seem both limited and stilted . the character be very animated and but be and ultimately and very flat and uninteresting . i never give in to my willing suspension of disbelief and and trust me and that usually not very hard to win . a you would expect from an art director creation and the set design and visual effect of lemony snicket be the real star of the film . if that your cup of tea and then you will probably like this film . it have receive a number of admire review and and i be willing to admit that i might be reward with some interesting symbolic insight be i too study this film more closely . the star set do create an aura of dark intensity and with a sort of freudian depth . generally speak and though and i have a very negative reaction to this film . it represent a class of movie most strongly typify by tim burton film where too much energy be devote to the purely visual element of the work . the director of this class of film be obviously gift in the domain of create unique visual world . but the flimviewing world would be far good off if they would see fit to collaborate with equally talented storyteller .