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->''"Mishaps. Mayhem. Misadventures. Oh joy."''
-->-- '''{{Tagline}}'''
In 2004, the first three books of the [[BlackComedy darkly humorous]] ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' franchise were adapted into a feature length film, starring Creator/JudeLaw as Lemony Snicket, Creator/JimCarrey as Count Olaf, and Creator/EmilyBrowning (Violet), Liam Aiken (Klaus), and Kara and Shelby Hoffman (Sunny), as the Baudelaire children.
After their parents are killed in a fire at the family mansion, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are left in the care of Count Olaf, a sinister distant relative, who wants his hands on the Baudelaire family fortune. Olaf will do anything to get his hands on the money. As they survive numerous attempts on their life, and a variety of bizarre events, the orphans will learn just how bad reality is.
While talk of sequels and even a potential film series was certainly up for debate, it's very likely that [[StillbornFranchise there won't be any continuations.]] However, the series has now found new life since Creator/{{Netflix}} carried through on its idea to convert the books into a [[Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2017 TV series]], released in early 2017.
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!!The film provides examples of:
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While their appearance outside of illustrations are never really detailed in the books, the movie makes them appear much more "pretty" (excepting Violet, who was described as being pretty in the books), making Klaus look much older than he probably should, and making him no longer need glasses, which would be a vital plot point in the fourth book. The reason for changing Klaus's glasses from BlindWithoutEm to a pince-nez he only wears while reading was to avoid making him look too similar to Franchise/HarryPotter.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Count Olaf was written as very sinister in the original books, but in the film he is more over the top and hammy leaning closer to comic relief.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: So many brought over from the books: Curdled Cave, Horrid Harbor, Hurricane Herman, Lake Lachrymose.
* AdultsAreUseless: Every adult in the film is shown to be stupid, gullible, cowardly or downright villainous. The Baudelaires can only depend on themselves for hope.
* AnachronismStew: On purpose, the characters, environments, and vehicles seem to be early 20th century, but fax machines and reel-to-reel car tape decks and carphones seem to be '80s, and Olaf mentions a cell phone in a deleted scene. Given that Poe actually has to feel himself to check, one assumes that giant '80s-style cell phones aren't common at the time.
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Olaf tries to force Violet to marry him in a staged play. His description of what he intends Violet strongly suggests that it would have been an AwfulWeddedLife.
* AscendedFanboy: What got Meryl Streep the part of Aunt Josephine was the request of her daughter, a huge fan of the books.
* BadBadActing: Especially in The Marvellous Marriage.
-->'''Pale Faced Woman:''' (Flatly) What a marvellous day for a marriage.
* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The film opens by making you think you will be seeing a happy stop-motion animated tale about a little elf, but a few minutes later, when the happy elf is skipping over some rocks in the water, an abrupt [[RecordNeedleScratch record scratch]] is heard and the set lights go dark:
-->'''Lemony Snicket:''' I'm sorry to inform that this is ''not'' the movie you will be watching. The movie you are about to see is extremely unpleasant. If you wish to see a film about a happy little elf, then I'm sure there is still plenty of seating in theatre number two. However, if you like stories about clever and reasonably attractive orphans, suspicious fires, carnivorous leeches, Italian food and secret organizations, then stay, as I retrace each and every one of the Baudelaire children's woeful steps. My name is Lemony Snicket, and it is my sad duty to document this tale.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Count Olaf in this version is a complete goofball who, while a terrible person, doesn't seem particularly dangerous. [[NotSoHarmlessVillain He is no less of a cold blooded murderer than he was in the books.]]
* BilingualBonus: The children make pasta Puttanesca, an Italian dish translating as "whore's sauce."
-->'''Violet:''' Dinner is served. Puttanesca.
-->'''Count Olaf:''' [[CallingMeALogarithm What did you call me?]]
* BilledAboveTheTitle: The advertising often showed Jim Carrey's name and characters ''way'' above the central characters of the series. While JimCarrey is the main antagonist, the children are more important.
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: To a certain extent, the use of eye motifs in Count Olaf's house. Aunt Josephine's house clinging to the edge of a cliff counts as well, though THAT one didn't last long...
* BlackComedy: In vein of the books, the film has a very morbid and ''off'' sense of humor.
* BluffTheImpostor: Uncle Monty exposes Count Olaf (pretending to be a herpetologist named Stefano) as an impostor by asking him to milk Petunia the snake.
* BodyMotifs: The eye that first appears in Count Olaf's ankle tattoo, and later in many other places.
* {{Bookworm}}: Klaus, the Researcher.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: "Now would be an excellent time to get up and walk out of the theater, living room, or airplane where this film is being shown."
** Lemony's description of the film's contents combines this trope with ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "clever and reasonably attractive orphans, suspicious fires, carnivorous leeches, Italian food, and secret organizations."
* BreakingTheFourthWall: After being rumbled in his guise as "Stephano", Olaf laments to the audience "Darn it. This was such a good character" before fleeing.
* BreakThemByTalking: Or rather, gloating, in the movie. Olaf reveals to the audience that he has just legally married Violet and played everyone for a sap. When Mr. Poe demands that the police arrest him, Olaf calls Poe and everyone out on how the kids had repeatedly tried to warn the adults and asked for help, but they wouldn't listen to them. "No one ever listens to children".
* TheCameo: The Aflac duck is milling about on the boat moored at the little dock beneath Aunt Josephine's cliff-overhanging house when he nearly gets hit by the falling stove.
* CassandraTruth: Every time the Baudelaires see through Olaf's two different disguises (his Stephano and his Captain Sham looks), nobody believes them in time.
* TheCharmer: Count Olaf is a very evil version, being able to play everyone like a fiddle, [[OnlySaneMan except the Baudelaires]].
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Initially played straight with Aunt Josephine who is terrified of realtors, avocados and think grammar is the greatest joy in life. This is later subverted as her earlier fears of splintering door handles and flaming stoves are all horrifying realised when her house is hit by Hurricane Herman.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Mr. Poe sends the children to live with Count Olaf because he is their closest living relative, geographically speaking. Blood-wise he's either their fourth cousin, three times removed, or their third cousin, four times removed.
* CutawayGag: A dark one when Olaf shows up as Stephano at Uncle Monty's place:
-->'''Uncle Monty:''' My chief assistant, Gustav, took sick and phoned not one hour ago.
-->'''Count Olaf:''' He'd do anything to be here now.
-->''[Cuts to Gustav chained to the front of a speeding train and screaming]''
** Another dark one happens in a deleted scene:
-->'''Count Olaf:''' I's the boy who runs the boat down near the pier there!
-->'''Aunt Josephine:''' Oh...what happened to Captain Sam?
-->'''Count Olaf:''' Uhhhh...he's me third cousin on me father's side. He's afeared of that big gale comin' in. Said he started to get that sinkin' feelin'.
-->''[cuts to Captain Sam being thrown into the water, chained to an anchor, gurgling desperately, then cuts back to Olaf.]''
-->'''Count Olaf:''' ...Sure he'll turn up sooner or later.
* CoattailRidingRelative: Count Olaf spends most of the movie trying to get the Baudelaire orphans' inheritance.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: [[spoiler: Well, technically "Radiation Schmadiation." Klaus uses Olaf's sunlight-refracting weapon to incinerate the wedding contract. The ''instant'' the sunlight hits the paper, it catches on fire. That means the thing was heated to about 400 degrees Fahrenheit just like ''that.'' Never mind the fact that Klaus [[ImprobableAimingSkills perfectly lined up the device]] to hit such a small target, how come Olaf's hand didn't get singed? Or, you know, the stage didn't catch fire? There should at least have been ''smoke,'' considering how easily the paper went up.]]
* CrapsackWorld: Invoked.
* DarkerAndEdgier: While this is a dark comedy like the books, this has a heavier atmosphere, especially with Olaf's schemes.
* DeadHandShot: [[spoiler: Once Uncle Monty dies and the kids find his body, all we see of it is his hand.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Sunny's baby talk has her be snarky to the adult characters, even though they can't understand her.
* DevilInPlainSight: Count Olaf is almost always one of these, and no one believes the Baudelaires until they finally prove that his latest persona is a criminal. Averted with Olaf's assistants, who are never detected by the Baudelaires.
* DirtyCoward: It isn't Aunt Josephine's numerous [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment crippling, irrational phobias]] that qualify her for this title, but rather the fact that she freely promises to keep Count Olaf's secret and to give him the Baudelaire children in exchange for her own life.
* DontEatAndSwim: Aunt Josephine informs Violet, Klaus and Sunny that her husband Ike was eaten by leeches because he did not wait an hour before going into the water - he only waited 45 minutes.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Olaf's troupe includes either a very effeminate man, or a very masculine woman.
* DVDCommentary: Two, one that comes in the regular "actors and director" flavor and one that features the director and [[spoiler:Daniel Handler in character as]] Lemony Snicket himself, who is obviously very disturbed at the director's insistence on introducing Count Olaf into the plot at all, let alone (supposedly) AsHimself. [[spoiler: Handler]] also goes about acting like the movie's events really happened and Count Olaf is playing himself, having locked Jim Carrey away somewhere.
* DullSurprise: Klaus and Violet. Somewhat passable given their misfortunes.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The second of Olaf's {{paper thin disguise}}s is that of ship captain, Captain Sham. Also, the Last Chance General Store at the grade crossing.
* FakeOutOpening: Exaggerated with ''The Littlest Elf'', which even got its own opening credits. The actual movie doesn't display the real title until the end credits.
* {{Fauxreigner}}: Olaf as "Stephano" claims to be Italian, but he [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent sounds more like a vague foreshadowing of]] [[Film/TheDarkKnight Heath Ledger as the Joker]]. Footage exists of Carry getting make-up applied for a very different version of Stephano, with long greasy hair, an outrageous Italian accent, and generally very filthy looking. This was likely changed for being too similar to negative Italian caricatures.
* FiveBadBand: The theater troupe.
** BigBad: Count Olaf.
** TheDragon: The hook-handed man.
** EvilGenius: The bald man with the long nose.
** TheBrute: The person of indeterminate gender.
** DarkChick: The two white-faced women.
* FreakOut: Aunt Josephine came more than slightly undone after the loss of her husband, Ike. She functions, but only just.
* FreezeFrameBonus: Some of the chores seen on the list of chores given to the Baudelaires by Count Olaf:
## Fix the rear porch so it is back to code
## Dust and clean all the very important pictures of myself
## Clean the staircase
## Reupholster the living room sofa
## Dust and polish the wood furniture throughout the house
## Do all the laundry and make sure you separate the whites, the colors, and the polyesters (make sure to take special care with my costumes and delicate)
## Iron all the clothes
## Sew buttons on clothes that are missing them
## Clean mirrors above my makeup table, taking care that there are no streaks
## Wash the steps on the porch
## Prune trees in the front yard, and not to mention
## Prepare a delicious dinner for myself and my troupe
* GadgeteerGenius: [[WrenchWench Violet.]]
* GloveSnap: Count Olaf does this in his herpetologist disguise.
* GoryDiscretionShot: All we see of [[spoiler:Aunt Josephine]] after the Lachrymose Leeches attack is a banana slip on the surface of the water. However, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD6hF8tkbY4 a deleted scene]] shows her actually going down with the ship in a slow, agonizing process.
* HellIsThatNoise: The screeches emitted by the Lachrymose Leeches.
* HypocriticalHumor: When Captain Sham (Count Olaf) says, "There ain't nothin' better than good grammar!" in front of Aunt Josephine, a GrammarNazi.
* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: The movie is titled ''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events'', perhaps to emphasize the LemonyNarrator.
* IncestSubtext: Violet and Klaus, [[SarcasmMode obviously]]. The film ''does'' sport a bit of chemistry though.
** JustForFun, try watching the movie with the sound off. Pay attention to [[HeldGaze the looks]] the siblings give [[BrotherSisterIncest each other]] throughout the film. Try not to think differently [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation about the characters]] after ''that''.
* IronicNurseryTune: Music-box tunes and the saccharine "Littlest Elf" song play during tragic scenes.
* {{Irony}}: Aunt Josephine is consumed with myriad phobias of dangers real and imagined, and yet she can't bring herself to leave her incredibly dangerous home, which teeters back and forth in the wind on its flimsy scaffolding.
** Olaf lost all legal right to the family's fortune [[spoiler: when his marriage certificate signed by him and Violet bursts into flames thanks to the same contraption he used to burn down the orphans' home and kill their parents]].
* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: Count Olaf repeatedly mispronounces certain words, most noticeably ''sur-preez'' ([[GeniusBonus which is actually]] [[BilingualBonus the French way of pronouncing the word]]).
* JumpScare: The Incredibly Deadly Viper lunging at Klaus and Sunny is at the very least startling.
* LaserGuidedKarma: At the end of the film, after Olaf gets apprehended, [[spoiler: he is tried and found guilty in court and put through most of the significantly harrowing situations the orphans were forced into before serving a life sentence.]]
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Lemony Snicket insists that this is a true story that he has extensively researched in an attempt to make the story of the orphans available to the general public.
* MakingASpectacleOfYourself: Count Olaf tries out shades in the general store while waiting for the train that will run over his adopted children.
* MacGyvering: Violet's speciality, she gets herself and her siblings out of countless predicaments by smartly using objects and items around her.
* MythologyGag: Violet begins signing the marriage certificate with her left (non-dominant) hand, before Olaf corrects her. In the book, the marriage is ruled void because she doesn't sign with "her own hand."
* NominalImportance: Like in the books, Count Olaf's assistants are known only as "the hook-handed man," "the bald man with a long nose," "the white-faced women," and "the person of indeterminable gender."
* NonMammalianMammaries: Uncle Monty asks Stefano to milk a snake.
--> '''Count Olaf (as Stefano):''' They used to call me Old [=MacDonald=] up at the old Milking Lab there, because I'd milk these things all day long. But the little udders... they're hard to locate...
* NotHisSled: In the novels, [[spoiler: Violet avoids marriage to Count Olaf by signing the certificate with her left hand (there's a rule stating that signing with your non-dominant hand renders the marriage null and void)]]. In the film, [[spoiler: Count Olaf takes notice that she's trying that, tells her to sign it properly]], causing a need for another method.
* NotThisOneThatOne: The kids find themselves not in the house they liked, with the friendly judge, but in the grim-looking house across the street, with [[BigBad Count Olaf]].
* ObfuscatingStupidity: An AlternativeCharacterInterpretation of Count Olaf could be that while he's portrayed as very goofy and melodramatic by Jim Carrey (surprise, surprise), he's also able to come up cunning plans to steal the Baudelaire fortune behind the scenes.
* OnlySaneMan: Frequently the Baudelaires are this, and Liam Aiken (who played Klaus) himself described the siblings as "the only sane people."
* OrphanedPunchline: As Count Olaf brings his acting troupe in near the beginning, he's saying, "...tub full of ice in Baja, and I realize that these clever girls had stolen my kidney! Imagine my ''[[ItIsPronouncedTroPay surpreez!]]''"
* PapaWolf: Even though he's just as oblivious to Olaf's evil intentions as everyone else, Mr. Poe shows some signs of this for the children... in some ways. The main examples are him being outraged that Sunny was "driving" a car and Olaf tried to gain the Baudelaire fortune by getting Justice Strauss to unknowingly marry Violet to Olaf.
* PaperThinDisguise: Count Olaf, repeatedly, for various reasons.
** His first disguise, Stefano, is actually pretty convincing....in terms of makeup. What is supposed to tip others off is his incompetence. His introductory lines are a good example of {{Malaproper}}, and to young geniuses like Violet and Klaus an immediate giveaway. That said, the only evidence that ensures it's really Count Olaf is TheLawOfConservationOfDetail -- Montgomery concludes just as quickly that "Stefano" is actually a spy from the Herpetological Society.
** Captain [[MeaningfulName Sham]], on the other hand, is so blatantly Olaf it's PlayedForLaughs. [[spoiler:You can see a member of Olaf's acting troupe almost immediately after Sham appears to confirm it]]. "Sham" proceeds to romance Aunt Josephine in an equally blatant example of AdultsAreUseless.
* ProperlyParanoid:
** The Baudelaires, about Count Olaf's many attempts to infiltrate their lives and snatch them for their fortune.
** Zig-zagged with Aunt Josephine. She is afraid of how everything in her house could kill her (except perhaps the house itself, which is horrifically unsound), but later in the act there's a scene in which ''all her crazy fears come true'' (the refrigerator comes loose and falls over; the stove disconnects from the gas lines and ignites from sparks coming from the telephone; the other end of the stove gas line heats a doorknob to the point that it explodes into millions of tiny fragments, etc.). It makes us realize that maybe, just maybe, she's not as crazy as she seems. Then she sells the orphans out to Count Olaf to save her life, and we realize she is truly crazy to think he'll spare someone who could, albeit unlikely, speak out against him and reveal that Captain Sham is actually Count Olaf. Additionally, her fear of realtors is never justified, and is so ridiculous that even the narrator questions it.
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: In the end credits, Creator/JohannesBrahms' ''Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor (Allegro)'' is played by polka instruments, especially the accordion.
* RailroadTracksOfDoom: Olaf's first plan to nab the Baudelaire fortune is to park his car on a grade crossing, and lock the children inside.
** At the end of the movie, we see this being reused for one of Olaf's punishments.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Uncle Monty was this until Count Olaf came along.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In his supposed triumphant speech, Olaf calls out the adults whom the Baudelaires tried to get help from and mocks them for refusing to listen to them.
* RecordNeedleScratch: We open with the credits to a stop-motion animated picture called ''The Littlest Elf,'' whiich goes on until a needle scratch is heard and the set lights go out.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: After Olaf tries to kill the orphans by parking his car with them inside on the grade crossing, Mr. Poe rightly removes them from his guardianship, but only because he believed Olaf let baby Sunny drive. Similarly, Uncle Monty is justifiably suspicious of "Stephano" but suspects him of being a spy from the Herpetological Society, not of being Count Olaf.
* ScarpiaUltimatum: Olaf threatens to drop Sunny from a tower if Violet doesn't go through with his wedding scheme.
* SceneryGorn: The ruins of the Baudelaire mansion are a straight example. Count Olaf's house, with holes in the ceiling and a kitchen in need of a little TLC, is also this trope. And Aunt Josephine's house after it gets demolished.
* SceneryPorn: All other scenery in the above.
* ShamingTheMob: Done by ''Olaf'' of all people to the audience of the play.
* ShowWithinAShow: The theme song from ''The Littlest Elf'' is heard on Count Olaf's tape deck when the orphans are trapped on the grade crossing, and later on Mr. Poe's stereo as his car is being ferried across Lake Lachrymose. Count Olaf has a bobblehead of the elf, whose head is repurposed as part of an improvised pulley to pull on the track switch at the grade crossing, implying it's a film within the world of the story. This ties in perfectly with the conceit that Snicket's intended audience is also part of that world, when he constantly recommends ditching out and seeing that movie instead.
* ShoutOut:
** In the stairwell where we first meet Count Olaf, there is a portrait of Count Olaf in Shakespearian garb, reaching out with his hand. This is almost an exact duplicate of a picture of John Barrymore playing ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}.''
** Lon Chaney in his Film/{{The Phantom of the Opera|1925}} getup can be seen on the magazine Count Olaf browses at the Last Chance General Store.
** The leech attack scene is a lot like the shrieking eel attack in ''Film/ThePrincessBride.''
** When the orphans knock Captain Sham over he cries "Franchise/ChildrenOfTheCorn!''
* SignificantAnagram: ''The Marvelous Marriage'' is written by Al Funcoot. Al Funcoot = Count Olaf.
* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: No one looks into the Baudelaires' guardian situation to make sure that they're being taken care of well. This is more apparent when they're living with Olaf and all sorts of things happen to them. For example, they're given one bed to share, they're forced to do chores for Olaf, and Olaf even strikes Klaus when he tries to protect Sunny. Oh, and there's that little thing of Olaf trying to kill them once he's granted custody.
* SnicketWarningLabel: "I'm sorry to inform that this is ''not'' the movie you will be watching. The movie you are about to see is extremely unpleasant. If you wish to see a film about a happy little elf, then I'm sure there is still plenty of seating in theatre number two. However, if you like stories about clever and reasonably attractive orphans, suspicious fires, carnivorous leeches, Italian food and secret organizations, then stay, as I retrace each and every one of the Baudelaire children's woeful steps. My name is Lemony Snicket, and it is my sad duty to document this tale."
* StealthPun: The Baudelaire children's first guardian after Count Olaf is called Uncle ''Monty,'' who owns ''pythons.'' [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus You guessed it.]]
* SteamPunk: For the most part. A touch of ClockPunk as Lemony Snicket is shown working on his manuscript inside a ClockTower with all the wonderful gears.
* TastesLikeDiabetes: Invoked with the fakeout ''The Littlest Elf'' opening, which is quickly and mercilessly subverted by a RecordNeedleScratch.
* TemptingFate: During the play, Olaf says: "I have the fortune now! And there's NOTHING you can do about it!" Cue Klaus using the light focusing apparatus to burn the marriage certificate.
* ThoseTwoGuys: The two pale faced women from Olaf's troupe.
* TitleDrop: The monologue Violet gives at the start of the trailer.
-->"At times, the world can seem like an unfriendly and sinister place. But believe us when we say that there is much more good in it than bad. And what might seem to be '''a series of unfortunate events''' may, in fact, be the first steps of a journey."
* TooDumbToLive: During the leeches scene The children scorn Aunt Josephine for her cowardice for giving Olaf custody of the children but given the scenario they were in, she had the right idea because the children were at least able to get to safety by getting on Olafs boat while the leaches were chewing on Josephines boat. It wasn't the kids best idea to say that Aunt Josephine was going to tell the authorities RIGHT IN FRONT OF SOMEONE THAT THEY KNOW IS A MURDERER.
** Aunt Josephine was also subject of this trope because she corrected Olafs grammar (which offended him) despite moments earlier the children told her that he is a murderer and during a scene where Olaf could of spared her.
*** Could ''have'' spared her. That is a very serious grammar mistake.
* TheUnintelligible: Sunny (whose speech is helpfully "translated" by subtitles), though Violet and Klaus can understand her.
* UnwittingPawn: Justice Strauss is convinced to play a judge in the play for authenticity, in actuality she is unknowingly officiating a "real" wedding.
* VisualPun: When the Baudelaires first meet Justice Strauss, we only see her side of the street, a lovely little place that would be ideal for three growing children. Then Strauss gently lets them down, by pointing them to Olaf's mansion. If you look closely, the flyover bridge separating their two houses is a [[WrongSideOfTheTracks railroad bridge -- which emit sparks, no less.]] Lampshaded in the DVD commentary.
* WeSellEverything: The Last Chance General Store sells... Sunglasses, liquors, and magazines. Pretty much everything you'd expect in your typical roadside general store.
* WhenSheSmiles: The Baudelaires have some genuinely happy moments in the film in which they smile. Given everything that they go through, it's comforting to see them still be able to smile.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: There is a mix of actors with American accents and actors using English accents.
** If examined closely, the package the children receive at the end of the film is postmarked to Boston, although if Boston were the location, it'd be a highly fictionalized version of the city, considering that the grade crossing scene takes place in an environment not unlike Colorado or New Mexico. At any rate, “England” is mentioned as a foreign country by one of the orphans in the same scene, which means it's probably not set in Great-Britain.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Aunt Josephine is this for ''nearly everything,'' even ''realtors.'' Though it turns out that not only was she completely normal before her husband Ike died, but very ''adventurous'' as well!
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[[caption-width-right:230: ''We're very concerned.'']]
->''"Mishaps. Mayhem. Misadventures. Oh joy."''
-->-- '''{{Tagline}}'''
In 2004, the first three books of the [[BlackComedy darkly humorous]] ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' franchise were adapted into a feature length film, starring Creator/JudeLaw as Lemony Snicket, Creator/JimCarrey as Count Olaf, and Creator/EmilyBrowning (Violet), Liam Aiken (Klaus), and Kara and Shelby Hoffman (Sunny), as the Baudelaire children.
After their parents are killed in a fire at the family mansion, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are left in the care of Count Olaf, a sinister distant relative, who wants his hands on the Baudelaire family fortune. Olaf will do anything to get his hands on the money. As they survive numerous attempts on their life, and a variety of bizarre events, the orphans will learn just how bad reality is.
While talk of sequels and even a potential film series was certainly up for debate, it's very likely that [[StillbornFranchise there won't be any continuations.]] However, the series has now found new life since Creator/{{Netflix}} carried through on its idea to convert the books into a [[Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2017 TV series]], released in early 2017.
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!!The film provides examples of:
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While their appearance outside of illustrations are never really detailed in the books, the movie makes them appear much more "pretty" (excepting Violet, who was described as being pretty in the books), making Klaus look much older than he probably should, and making him no longer need glasses, which would be a vital plot point in the fourth book. The reason for changing Klaus's glasses from BlindWithoutEm to a pince-nez he only wears while reading was to avoid making him look too similar to Franchise/HarryPotter.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Count Olaf was written as very sinister in the original books, but in the film he is more over the top and hammy leaning closer to comic relief.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: So many brought over from the books: Curdled Cave, Horrid Harbor, Hurricane Herman, Lake Lachrymose.
* AdultsAreUseless: Every adult in the film is shown to be stupid, gullible, cowardly or downright villainous. The Baudelaires can only depend on themselves for hope.
* AnachronismStew: On purpose, the characters, environments, and vehicles seem to be early 20th century, but fax machines and reel-to-reel car tape decks and carphones seem to be '80s, and Olaf mentions a cell phone in a deleted scene. Given that Poe actually has to feel himself to check, one assumes that giant '80s-style cell phones aren't common at the time.
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Olaf tries to force Violet to marry him in a staged play. His description of what he intends Violet strongly suggests that it would have been an AwfulWeddedLife.
* AscendedFanboy: What got Meryl Streep the part of Aunt Josephine was the request of her daughter, a huge fan of the books.
* BadBadActing: Especially in The Marvellous Marriage.
-->'''Pale Faced Woman:''' (Flatly) What a marvellous day for a marriage.
* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The film opens by making you think you will be seeing a happy stop-motion animated tale about a little elf, but a few minutes later, when the happy elf is skipping over some rocks in the water, an abrupt [[RecordNeedleScratch record scratch]] is heard and the set lights go dark:
-->'''Lemony Snicket:''' I'm sorry to inform that this is ''not'' the movie you will be watching. The movie you are about to see is extremely unpleasant. If you wish to see a film about a happy little elf, then I'm sure there is still plenty of seating in theatre number two. However, if you like stories about clever and reasonably attractive orphans, suspicious fires, carnivorous leeches, Italian food and secret organizations, then stay, as I retrace each and every one of the Baudelaire children's woeful steps. My name is Lemony Snicket, and it is my sad duty to document this tale.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Count Olaf in this version is a complete goofball who, while a terrible person, doesn't seem particularly dangerous. [[NotSoHarmlessVillain He is no less of a cold blooded murderer than he was in the books.]]
* BilingualBonus: The children make pasta Puttanesca, an Italian dish translating as "whore's sauce."
-->'''Violet:''' Dinner is served. Puttanesca.
-->'''Count Olaf:''' [[CallingMeALogarithm What did you call me?]]
* BilledAboveTheTitle: The advertising often showed Jim Carrey's name and characters ''way'' above the central characters of the series. While JimCarrey is the main antagonist, the children are more important.
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: To a certain extent, the use of eye motifs in Count Olaf's house. Aunt Josephine's house clinging to the edge of a cliff counts as well, though THAT one didn't last long...
* BlackComedy: In vein of the books, the film has a very morbid and ''off'' sense of humor.
* BluffTheImpostor: Uncle Monty exposes Count Olaf (pretending to be a herpetologist named Stefano) as an impostor by asking him to milk Petunia the snake.
* BodyMotifs: The eye that first appears in Count Olaf's ankle tattoo, and later in many other places.
* {{Bookworm}}: Klaus, the Researcher.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: "Now would be an excellent time to get up and walk out of the theater, living room, or airplane where this film is being shown."
** Lemony's description of the film's contents combines this trope with ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "clever and reasonably attractive orphans, suspicious fires, carnivorous leeches, Italian food, and secret organizations."
* BreakingTheFourthWall: After being rumbled in his guise as "Stephano", Olaf laments to the audience "Darn it. This was such a good character" before fleeing.
* BreakThemByTalking: Or rather, gloating, in the movie. Olaf reveals to the audience that he has just legally married Violet and played everyone for a sap. When Mr. Poe demands that the police arrest him, Olaf calls Poe and everyone out on how the kids had repeatedly tried to warn the adults and asked for help, but they wouldn't listen to them. "No one ever listens to children".
* TheCameo: The Aflac duck is milling about on the boat moored at the little dock beneath Aunt Josephine's cliff-overhanging house when he nearly gets hit by the falling stove.
* CassandraTruth: Every time the Baudelaires see through Olaf's two different disguises (his Stephano and his Captain Sham looks), nobody believes them in time.
* TheCharmer: Count Olaf is a very evil version, being able to play everyone like a fiddle, [[OnlySaneMan except the Baudelaires]].
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Initially played straight with Aunt Josephine who is terrified of realtors, avocados and think grammar is the greatest joy in life. This is later subverted as her earlier fears of splintering door handles and flaming stoves are all horrifying realised when her house is hit by Hurricane Herman.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Mr. Poe sends the children to live with Count Olaf because he is their closest living relative, geographically speaking. Blood-wise he's either their fourth cousin, three times removed, or their third cousin, four times removed.
* CutawayGag: A dark one when Olaf shows up as Stephano at Uncle Monty's place:
-->'''Uncle Monty:''' My chief assistant, Gustav, took sick and phoned not one hour ago.
-->'''Count Olaf:''' He'd do anything to be here now.
-->''[Cuts to Gustav chained to the front of a speeding train and screaming]''
** Another dark one happens in a deleted scene:
-->'''Count Olaf:''' I's the boy who runs the boat down near the pier there!
-->'''Aunt Josephine:''' Oh...what happened to Captain Sam?
-->'''Count Olaf:''' Uhhhh...he's me third cousin on me father's side. He's afeared of that big gale comin' in. Said he started to get that sinkin' feelin'.
-->''[cuts to Captain Sam being thrown into the water, chained to an anchor, gurgling desperately, then cuts back to Olaf.]''
-->'''Count Olaf:''' ...Sure he'll turn up sooner or later.
* CoattailRidingRelative: Count Olaf spends most of the movie trying to get the Baudelaire orphans' inheritance.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: [[spoiler: Well, technically "Radiation Schmadiation." Klaus uses Olaf's sunlight-refracting weapon to incinerate the wedding contract. The ''instant'' the sunlight hits the paper, it catches on fire. That means the thing was heated to about 400 degrees Fahrenheit just like ''that.'' Never mind the fact that Klaus [[ImprobableAimingSkills perfectly lined up the device]] to hit such a small target, how come Olaf's hand didn't get singed? Or, you know, the stage didn't catch fire? There should at least have been ''smoke,'' considering how easily the paper went up.]]
* CrapsackWorld: Invoked.
* DarkerAndEdgier: While this is a dark comedy like the books, this has a heavier atmosphere, especially with Olaf's schemes.
* DeadHandShot: [[spoiler: Once Uncle Monty dies and the kids find his body, all we see of it is his hand.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Sunny's baby talk has her be snarky to the adult characters, even though they can't understand her.
* DevilInPlainSight: Count Olaf is almost always one of these, and no one believes the Baudelaires until they finally prove that his latest persona is a criminal. Averted with Olaf's assistants, who are never detected by the Baudelaires.
* DirtyCoward: It isn't Aunt Josephine's numerous [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment crippling, irrational phobias]] that qualify her for this title, but rather the fact that she freely promises to keep Count Olaf's secret and to give him the Baudelaire children in exchange for her own life.
* DontEatAndSwim: Aunt Josephine informs Violet, Klaus and Sunny that her husband Ike was eaten by leeches because he did not wait an hour before going into the water - he only waited 45 minutes.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Olaf's troupe includes either a very effeminate man, or a very masculine woman.
* DVDCommentary: Two, one that comes in the regular "actors and director" flavor and one that features the director and [[spoiler:Daniel Handler in character as]] Lemony Snicket himself, who is obviously very disturbed at the director's insistence on introducing Count Olaf into the plot at all, let alone (supposedly) AsHimself. [[spoiler: Handler]] also goes about acting like the movie's events really happened and Count Olaf is playing himself, having locked Jim Carrey away somewhere.
* DullSurprise: Klaus and Violet. Somewhat passable given their misfortunes.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The second of Olaf's {{paper thin disguise}}s is that of ship captain, Captain Sham. Also, the Last Chance General Store at the grade crossing.
* FakeOutOpening: Exaggerated with ''The Littlest Elf'', which even got its own opening credits. The actual movie doesn't display the real title until the end credits.
* {{Fauxreigner}}: Olaf as "Stephano" claims to be Italian, but he [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent sounds more like a vague foreshadowing of]] [[Film/TheDarkKnight Heath Ledger as the Joker]]. Footage exists of Carry getting make-up applied for a very different version of Stephano, with long greasy hair, an outrageous Italian accent, and generally very filthy looking. This was likely changed for being too similar to negative Italian caricatures.
* FiveBadBand: The theater troupe.
** BigBad: Count Olaf.
** TheDragon: The hook-handed man.
** EvilGenius: The bald man with the long nose.
** TheBrute: The person of indeterminate gender.
** DarkChick: The two white-faced women.
* FreakOut: Aunt Josephine came more than slightly undone after the loss of her husband, Ike. She functions, but only just.
* FreezeFrameBonus: Some of the chores seen on the list of chores given to the Baudelaires by Count Olaf:
## Fix the rear porch so it is back to code
## Dust and clean all the very important pictures of myself
## Clean the staircase
## Reupholster the living room sofa
## Dust and polish the wood furniture throughout the house
## Do all the laundry and make sure you separate the whites, the colors, and the polyesters (make sure to take special care with my costumes and delicate)
## Iron all the clothes
## Sew buttons on clothes that are missing them
## Clean mirrors above my makeup table, taking care that there are no streaks
## Wash the steps on the porch
## Prune trees in the front yard, and not to mention
## Prepare a delicious dinner for myself and my troupe
* GadgeteerGenius: [[WrenchWench Violet.]]
* GloveSnap: Count Olaf does this in his herpetologist disguise.
* GoryDiscretionShot: All we see of [[spoiler:Aunt Josephine]] after the Lachrymose Leeches attack is a banana slip on the surface of the water. However, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD6hF8tkbY4 a deleted scene]] shows her actually going down with the ship in a slow, agonizing process.
* HellIsThatNoise: The screeches emitted by the Lachrymose Leeches.
* HypocriticalHumor: When Captain Sham (Count Olaf) says, "There ain't nothin' better than good grammar!" in front of Aunt Josephine, a GrammarNazi.
* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: The movie is titled ''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events'', perhaps to emphasize the LemonyNarrator.
* IncestSubtext: Violet and Klaus, [[SarcasmMode obviously]]. The film ''does'' sport a bit of chemistry though.
** JustForFun, try watching the movie with the sound off. Pay attention to [[HeldGaze the looks]] the siblings give [[BrotherSisterIncest each other]] throughout the film. Try not to think differently [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation about the characters]] after ''that''.
* IronicNurseryTune: Music-box tunes and the saccharine "Littlest Elf" song play during tragic scenes.
* {{Irony}}: Aunt Josephine is consumed with myriad phobias of dangers real and imagined, and yet she can't bring herself to leave her incredibly dangerous home, which teeters back and forth in the wind on its flimsy scaffolding.
** Olaf lost all legal right to the family's fortune [[spoiler: when his marriage certificate signed by him and Violet bursts into flames thanks to the same contraption he used to burn down the orphans' home and kill their parents]].
* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: Count Olaf repeatedly mispronounces certain words, most noticeably ''sur-preez'' ([[GeniusBonus which is actually]] [[BilingualBonus the French way of pronouncing the word]]).
* JumpScare: The Incredibly Deadly Viper lunging at Klaus and Sunny is at the very least startling.
* LaserGuidedKarma: At the end of the film, after Olaf gets apprehended, [[spoiler: he is tried and found guilty in court and put through most of the significantly harrowing situations the orphans were forced into before serving a life sentence.]]
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Lemony Snicket insists that this is a true story that he has extensively researched in an attempt to make the story of the orphans available to the general public.
* MakingASpectacleOfYourself: Count Olaf tries out shades in the general store while waiting for the train that will run over his adopted children.
* MacGyvering: Violet's speciality, she gets herself and her siblings out of countless predicaments by smartly using objects and items around her.
* MythologyGag: Violet begins signing the marriage certificate with her left (non-dominant) hand, before Olaf corrects her. In the book, the marriage is ruled void because she doesn't sign with "her own hand."
* NominalImportance: Like in the books, Count Olaf's assistants are known only as "the hook-handed man," "the bald man with a long nose," "the white-faced women," and "the person of indeterminable gender."
* NonMammalianMammaries: Uncle Monty asks Stefano to milk a snake.
--> '''Count Olaf (as Stefano):''' They used to call me Old [=MacDonald=] up at the old Milking Lab there, because I'd milk these things all day long. But the little udders... they're hard to locate...
* NotHisSled: In the novels, [[spoiler: Violet avoids marriage to Count Olaf by signing the certificate with her left hand (there's a rule stating that signing with your non-dominant hand renders the marriage null and void)]]. In the film, [[spoiler: Count Olaf takes notice that she's trying that, tells her to sign it properly]], causing a need for another method.
* NotThisOneThatOne: The kids find themselves not in the house they liked, with the friendly judge, but in the grim-looking house across the street, with [[BigBad Count Olaf]].
* ObfuscatingStupidity: An AlternativeCharacterInterpretation of Count Olaf could be that while he's portrayed as very goofy and melodramatic by Jim Carrey (surprise, surprise), he's also able to come up cunning plans to steal the Baudelaire fortune behind the scenes.
* OnlySaneMan: Frequently the Baudelaires are this, and Liam Aiken (who played Klaus) himself described the siblings as "the only sane people."
* OrphanedPunchline: As Count Olaf brings his acting troupe in near the beginning, he's saying, "...tub full of ice in Baja, and I realize that these clever girls had stolen my kidney! Imagine my ''[[ItIsPronouncedTroPay surpreez!]]''"
* PapaWolf: Even though he's just as oblivious to Olaf's evil intentions as everyone else, Mr. Poe shows some signs of this for the children... in some ways. The main examples are him being outraged that Sunny was "driving" a car and Olaf tried to gain the Baudelaire fortune by getting Justice Strauss to unknowingly marry Violet to Olaf.
* PaperThinDisguise: Count Olaf, repeatedly, for various reasons.
** His first disguise, Stefano, is actually pretty convincing....in terms of makeup. What is supposed to tip others off is his incompetence. His introductory lines are a good example of {{Malaproper}}, and to young geniuses like Violet and Klaus an immediate giveaway. That said, the only evidence that ensures it's really Count Olaf is TheLawOfConservationOfDetail -- Montgomery concludes just as quickly that "Stefano" is actually a spy from the Herpetological Society.
** Captain [[MeaningfulName Sham]], on the other hand, is so blatantly Olaf it's PlayedForLaughs. [[spoiler:You can see a member of Olaf's acting troupe almost immediately after Sham appears to confirm it]]. "Sham" proceeds to romance Aunt Josephine in an equally blatant example of AdultsAreUseless.
* ProperlyParanoid:
** The Baudelaires, about Count Olaf's many attempts to infiltrate their lives and snatch them for their fortune.
** Zig-zagged with Aunt Josephine. She is afraid of how everything in her house could kill her (except perhaps the house itself, which is horrifically unsound), but later in the act there's a scene in which ''all her crazy fears come true'' (the refrigerator comes loose and falls over; the stove disconnects from the gas lines and ignites from sparks coming from the telephone; the other end of the stove gas line heats a doorknob to the point that it explodes into millions of tiny fragments, etc.). It makes us realize that maybe, just maybe, she's not as crazy as she seems. Then she sells the orphans out to Count Olaf to save her life, and we realize she is truly crazy to think he'll spare someone who could, albeit unlikely, speak out against him and reveal that Captain Sham is actually Count Olaf. Additionally, her fear of realtors is never justified, and is so ridiculous that even the narrator questions it.
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: In the end credits, Creator/JohannesBrahms' ''Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor (Allegro)'' is played by polka instruments, especially the accordion.
* RailroadTracksOfDoom: Olaf's first plan to nab the Baudelaire fortune is to park his car on a grade crossing, and lock the children inside.
** At the end of the movie, we see this being reused for one of Olaf's punishments.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Uncle Monty was this until Count Olaf came along.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In his supposed triumphant speech, Olaf calls out the adults whom the Baudelaires tried to get help from and mocks them for refusing to listen to them.
* RecordNeedleScratch: We open with the credits to a stop-motion animated picture called ''The Littlest Elf,'' whiich goes on until a needle scratch is heard and the set lights go out.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: After Olaf tries to kill the orphans by parking his car with them inside on the grade crossing, Mr. Poe rightly removes them from his guardianship, but only because he believed Olaf let baby Sunny drive. Similarly, Uncle Monty is justifiably suspicious of "Stephano" but suspects him of being a spy from the Herpetological Society, not of being Count Olaf.
* ScarpiaUltimatum: Olaf threatens to drop Sunny from a tower if Violet doesn't go through with his wedding scheme.
* SceneryGorn: The ruins of the Baudelaire mansion are a straight example. Count Olaf's house, with holes in the ceiling and a kitchen in need of a little TLC, is also this trope. And Aunt Josephine's house after it gets demolished.
* SceneryPorn: All other scenery in the above.
* ShamingTheMob: Done by ''Olaf'' of all people to the audience of the play.
* ShowWithinAShow: The theme song from ''The Littlest Elf'' is heard on Count Olaf's tape deck when the orphans are trapped on the grade crossing, and later on Mr. Poe's stereo as his car is being ferried across Lake Lachrymose. Count Olaf has a bobblehead of the elf, whose head is repurposed as part of an improvised pulley to pull on the track switch at the grade crossing, implying it's a film within the world of the story. This ties in perfectly with the conceit that Snicket's intended audience is also part of that world, when he constantly recommends ditching out and seeing that movie instead.
* ShoutOut:
** In the stairwell where we first meet Count Olaf, there is a portrait of Count Olaf in Shakespearian garb, reaching out with his hand. This is almost an exact duplicate of a picture of John Barrymore playing ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}.''
** Lon Chaney in his Film/{{The Phantom of the Opera|1925}} getup can be seen on the magazine Count Olaf browses at the Last Chance General Store.
** The leech attack scene is a lot like the shrieking eel attack in ''Film/ThePrincessBride.''
** When the orphans knock Captain Sham over he cries "Franchise/ChildrenOfTheCorn!''
* SignificantAnagram: ''The Marvelous Marriage'' is written by Al Funcoot. Al Funcoot = Count Olaf.
* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: No one looks into the Baudelaires' guardian situation to make sure that they're being taken care of well. This is more apparent when they're living with Olaf and all sorts of things happen to them. For example, they're given one bed to share, they're forced to do chores for Olaf, and Olaf even strikes Klaus when he tries to protect Sunny. Oh, and there's that little thing of Olaf trying to kill them once he's granted custody.
* SnicketWarningLabel: "I'm sorry to inform that this is ''not'' the movie you will be watching. The movie you are about to see is extremely unpleasant. If you wish to see a film about a happy little elf, then I'm sure there is still plenty of seating in theatre number two. However, if you like stories about clever and reasonably attractive orphans, suspicious fires, carnivorous leeches, Italian food and secret organizations, then stay, as I retrace each and every one of the Baudelaire children's woeful steps. My name is Lemony Snicket, and it is my sad duty to document this tale."
* StealthPun: The Baudelaire children's first guardian after Count Olaf is called Uncle ''Monty,'' who owns ''pythons.'' [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus You guessed it.]]
* SteamPunk: For the most part. A touch of ClockPunk as Lemony Snicket is shown working on his manuscript inside a ClockTower with all the wonderful gears.
* TastesLikeDiabetes: Invoked with the fakeout ''The Littlest Elf'' opening, which is quickly and mercilessly subverted by a RecordNeedleScratch.
* TemptingFate: During the play, Olaf says: "I have the fortune now! And there's NOTHING you can do about it!" Cue Klaus using the light focusing apparatus to burn the marriage certificate.
* ThoseTwoGuys: The two pale faced women from Olaf's troupe.
* TitleDrop: The monologue Violet gives at the start of the trailer.
-->"At times, the world can seem like an unfriendly and sinister place. But believe us when we say that there is much more good in it than bad. And what might seem to be '''a series of unfortunate events''' may, in fact, be the first steps of a journey."
* TooDumbToLive: During the leeches scene The children scorn Aunt Josephine for her cowardice for giving Olaf custody of the children but given the scenario they were in, she had the right idea because the children were at least able to get to safety by getting on Olafs boat while the leaches were chewing on Josephines boat. It wasn't the kids best idea to say that Aunt Josephine was going to tell the authorities RIGHT IN FRONT OF SOMEONE THAT THEY KNOW IS A MURDERER.
** Aunt Josephine was also subject of this trope because she corrected Olafs grammar (which offended him) despite moments earlier the children told her that he is a murderer and during a scene where Olaf could of spared her.
*** Could ''have'' spared her. That is a very serious grammar mistake.
* TheUnintelligible: Sunny (whose speech is helpfully "translated" by subtitles), though Violet and Klaus can understand her.
* UnwittingPawn: Justice Strauss is convinced to play a judge in the play for authenticity, in actuality she is unknowingly officiating a "real" wedding.
* VisualPun: When the Baudelaires first meet Justice Strauss, we only see her side of the street, a lovely little place that would be ideal for three growing children. Then Strauss gently lets them down, by pointing them to Olaf's mansion. If you look closely, the flyover bridge separating their two houses is a [[WrongSideOfTheTracks railroad bridge -- which emit sparks, no less.]] Lampshaded in the DVD commentary.
* WeSellEverything: The Last Chance General Store sells... Sunglasses, liquors, and magazines. Pretty much everything you'd expect in your typical roadside general store.
* WhenSheSmiles: The Baudelaires have some genuinely happy moments in the film in which they smile. Given everything that they go through, it's comforting to see them still be able to smile.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: There is a mix of actors with American accents and actors using English accents.
** If examined closely, the package the children receive at the end of the film is postmarked to Boston, although if Boston were the location, it'd be a highly fictionalized version of the city, considering that the grade crossing scene takes place in an environment not unlike Colorado or New Mexico. At any rate, “England” is mentioned as a foreign country by one of the orphans in the same scene, which means it's probably not set in Great-Britain.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Aunt Josephine is this for ''nearly everything,'' even ''realtors.'' Though it turns out that not only was she completely normal before her husband Ike died, but very ''adventurous'' as well!
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->''"Mishaps. Mayhem. Misadventures. Oh joy."''
-->-- '''{{Tagline}}'''
In 2004, the first three books of the [[BlackComedy darkly humorous]] ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' franchise were adapted into a feature length film, starring Creator/JudeLaw as Lemony Snicket, Creator/JimCarrey as Count Olaf, and Creator/EmilyBrowning (Violet), Liam Aiken (Klaus), and Kara and Shelby Hoffman (Sunny), as the Baudelaire children.
After their parents are killed in a fire at the family mansion, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are left in the care of Count Olaf, a sinister distant relative, who wants his hands on the Baudelaire family fortune. Olaf will do anything to get his hands on the money. As they survive numerous attempts on their life, and a variety of bizarre events, the orphans will learn just how bad reality is.
While talk of sequels and even a potential film series was certainly up for debate, it's very likely that [[StillbornFranchise there won't be any continuations.]] However, the series has now found new life since Creator/{{Netflix}} carried through on its idea to convert the books into a [[Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2017 TV series]], released in early 2017.
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!!The film provides examples of:
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While their appearance outside of illustrations are never really detailed in the books, the movie makes them appear much more "pretty" (excepting Violet, who was described as being pretty in the books), making Klaus look much older than he probably should, and making him no longer need glasses, which would be a vital plot point in the fourth book. The reason for changing Klaus's glasses from BlindWithoutEm to a pince-nez he only wears while reading was to avoid making him look too similar to Franchise/HarryPotter.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Count Olaf was written as very sinister in the original books, but in the film he is more over the top and hammy leaning closer to comic relief.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: So many brought over from the books: Curdled Cave, Horrid Harbor, Hurricane Herman, Lake Lachrymose.
* AdultsAreUseless: Every adult in the film is shown to be stupid, gullible, cowardly or downright villainous. The Baudelaires can only depend on themselves for hope.
* AnachronismStew: On purpose, the characters, environments, and vehicles seem to be early 20th century, but fax machines and reel-to-reel car tape decks and carphones seem to be '80s, and Olaf mentions a cell phone in a deleted scene. Given that Poe actually has to feel himself to check, one assumes that giant '80s-style cell phones aren't common at the time.
* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Olaf tries to force Violet to marry him in a staged play. His description of what he intends Violet strongly suggests that it would have been an AwfulWeddedLife.
* AscendedFanboy: What got Meryl Streep the part of Aunt Josephine was the request of her daughter, a huge fan of the books.
* BadBadActing: Especially in The Marvellous Marriage.
-->'''Pale Faced Woman:''' (Flatly) What a marvellous day for a marriage.
* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The film opens by making you think you will be seeing a happy stop-motion animated tale about a little elf, but a few minutes later, when the happy elf is skipping over some rocks in the water, an abrupt [[RecordNeedleScratch record scratch]] is heard and the set lights go dark:
-->'''Lemony Snicket:''' I'm sorry to inform that this is ''not'' the movie you will be watching. The movie you are about to see is extremely unpleasant. If you wish to see a film about a happy little elf, then I'm sure there is still plenty of seating in theatre number two. However, if you like stories about clever and reasonably attractive orphans, suspicious fires, carnivorous leeches, Italian food and secret organizations, then stay, as I retrace each and every one of the Baudelaire children's woeful steps. My name is Lemony Snicket, and it is my sad duty to document this tale.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Count Olaf in this version is a complete goofball who, while a terrible person, doesn't seem particularly dangerous. [[NotSoHarmlessVillain He is no less of a cold blooded murderer than he was in the books.]]
* BilingualBonus: The children make pasta Puttanesca, an Italian dish translating as "whore's sauce."
-->'''Violet:''' Dinner is served. Puttanesca.
-->'''Count Olaf:''' [[CallingMeALogarithm What did you call me?]]
* BilledAboveTheTitle: The advertising often showed Jim Carrey's name and characters ''way'' above the central characters of the series. While JimCarrey is the main antagonist, the children are more important.
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: To a certain extent, the use of eye motifs in Count Olaf's house. Aunt Josephine's house clinging to the edge of a cliff counts as well, though THAT one didn't last long...
* BlackComedy: In vein of the books, the film has a very morbid and ''off'' sense of humor.
* BluffTheImpostor: Uncle Monty exposes Count Olaf (pretending to be a herpetologist named Stefano) as an impostor by asking him to milk Petunia the snake.
* BodyMotifs: The eye that first appears in Count Olaf's ankle tattoo, and later in many other places.
* {{Bookworm}}: Klaus, the Researcher.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: "Now would be an excellent time to get up and walk out of the theater, living room, or airplane where this film is being shown."
** Lemony's description of the film's contents combines this trope with ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "clever and reasonably attractive orphans, suspicious fires, carnivorous leeches, Italian food, and secret organizations."
* BreakingTheFourthWall: After being rumbled in his guise as "Stephano", Olaf laments to the audience "Darn it. This was such a good character" before fleeing.
* BreakThemByTalking: Or rather, gloating, in the movie. Olaf reveals to the audience that he has just legally married Violet and played everyone for a sap. When Mr. Poe demands that the police arrest him, Olaf calls Poe and everyone out on how the kids had repeatedly tried to warn the adults and asked for help, but they wouldn't listen to them. "No one ever listens to children".
* TheCameo: The Aflac duck is milling about on the boat moored at the little dock beneath Aunt Josephine's cliff-overhanging house when he nearly gets hit by the falling stove.
* CassandraTruth: Every time the Baudelaires see through Olaf's two different disguises (his Stephano and his Captain Sham looks), nobody believes them in time.
* TheCharmer: Count Olaf is a very evil version, being able to play everyone like a fiddle, [[OnlySaneMan except the Baudelaires]].
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Initially played straight with Aunt Josephine who is terrified of realtors, avocados and think grammar is the greatest joy in life. This is later subverted as her earlier fears of splintering door handles and flaming stoves are all horrifying realised when her house is hit by Hurricane Herman.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Mr. Poe sends the children to live with Count Olaf because he is their closest living relative, geographically speaking. Blood-wise he's either their fourth cousin, three times removed, or their third cousin, four times removed.
* CutawayGag: A dark one when Olaf shows up as Stephano at Uncle Monty's place:
-->'''Uncle Monty:''' My chief assistant, Gustav, took sick and phoned not one hour ago.
-->'''Count Olaf:''' He'd do anything to be here now.
-->''[Cuts to Gustav chained to the front of a speeding train and screaming]''
** Another dark one happens in a deleted scene:
-->'''Count Olaf:''' I's the boy who runs the boat down near the pier there!
-->'''Aunt Josephine:''' Oh...what happened to Captain Sam?
-->'''Count Olaf:''' Uhhhh...he's me third cousin on me father's side. He's afeared of that big gale comin' in. Said he started to get that sinkin' feelin'.
-->''[cuts to Captain Sam being thrown into the water, chained to an anchor, gurgling desperately, then cuts back to Olaf.]''
-->'''Count Olaf:''' ...Sure he'll turn up sooner or later.
* CoattailRidingRelative: Count Olaf spends most of the movie trying to get the Baudelaire orphans' inheritance.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: [[spoiler: Well, technically "Radiation Schmadiation." Klaus uses Olaf's sunlight-refracting weapon to incinerate the wedding contract. The ''instant'' the sunlight hits the paper, it catches on fire. That means the thing was heated to about 400 degrees Fahrenheit just like ''that.'' Never mind the fact that Klaus [[ImprobableAimingSkills perfectly lined up the device]] to hit such a small target, how come Olaf's hand didn't get singed? Or, you know, the stage didn't catch fire? There should at least have been ''smoke,'' considering how easily the paper went up.]]
* CrapsackWorld: Invoked.
* DarkerAndEdgier: While this is a dark comedy like the books, this has a heavier atmosphere, especially with Olaf's schemes.
* DeadHandShot: [[spoiler: Once Uncle Monty dies and the kids find his body, all we see of it is his hand.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Sunny's baby talk has her be snarky to the adult characters, even though they can't understand her.
* DevilInPlainSight: Count Olaf is almost always one of these, and no one believes the Baudelaires until they finally prove that his latest persona is a criminal. Averted with Olaf's assistants, who are never detected by the Baudelaires.
* DirtyCoward: It isn't Aunt Josephine's numerous [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment crippling, irrational phobias]] that qualify her for this title, but rather the fact that she freely promises to keep Count Olaf's secret and to give him the Baudelaire children in exchange for her own life.
* DontEatAndSwim: Aunt Josephine informs Violet, Klaus and Sunny that her husband Ike was eaten by leeches because he did not wait an hour before going into the water - he only waited 45 minutes.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Olaf's troupe includes either a very effeminate man, or a very masculine woman.
* DVDCommentary: Two, one that comes in the regular "actors and director" flavor and one that features the director and [[spoiler:Daniel Handler in character as]] Lemony Snicket himself, who is obviously very disturbed at the director's insistence on introducing Count Olaf into the plot at all, let alone (supposedly) AsHimself. [[spoiler: Handler]] also goes about acting like the movie's events really happened and Count Olaf is playing himself, having locked Jim Carrey away somewhere.
* DullSurprise: Klaus and Violet. Somewhat passable given their misfortunes.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The second of Olaf's {{paper thin disguise}}s is that of ship captain, Captain Sham. Also, the Last Chance General Store at the grade crossing.
* FakeOutOpening: Exaggerated with ''The Littlest Elf'', which even got its own opening credits. The actual movie doesn't display the real title until the end credits.
* {{Fauxreigner}}: Olaf as "Stephano" claims to be Italian, but he [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent sounds more like a vague foreshadowing of]] [[Film/TheDarkKnight Heath Ledger as the Joker]]. Footage exists of Carry getting make-up applied for a very different version of Stephano, with long greasy hair, an outrageous Italian accent, and generally very filthy looking. This was likely changed for being too similar to negative Italian caricatures.
* FiveBadBand: The theater troupe.
** BigBad: Count Olaf.
** TheDragon: The hook-handed man.
** EvilGenius: The bald man with the long nose.
** TheBrute: The person of indeterminate gender.
** DarkChick: The two white-faced women.
* FreakOut: Aunt Josephine came more than slightly undone after the loss of her husband, Ike. She functions, but only just.
* FreezeFrameBonus: Some of the chores seen on the list of chores given to the Baudelaires by Count Olaf:
## Fix the rear porch so it is back to code
## Dust and clean all the very important pictures of myself
## Clean the staircase
## Reupholster the living room sofa
## Dust and polish the wood furniture throughout the house
## Do all the laundry and make sure you separate the whites, the colors, and the polyesters (make sure to take special care with my costumes and delicate)
## Iron all the clothes
## Sew buttons on clothes that are missing them
## Clean mirrors above my makeup table, taking care that there are no streaks
## Wash the steps on the porch
## Prune trees in the front yard, and not to mention
## Prepare a delicious dinner for myself and my troupe
* GadgeteerGenius: [[WrenchWench Violet.]]
* GloveSnap: Count Olaf does this in his herpetologist disguise.
* GoryDiscretionShot: All we see of [[spoiler:Aunt Josephine]] after the Lachrymose Leeches attack is a banana slip on the surface of the water. However, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD6hF8tkbY4 a deleted scene]] shows her actually going down with the ship in a slow, agonizing process.
* HellIsThatNoise: The screeches emitted by the Lachrymose Leeches.
* HypocriticalHumor: When Captain Sham (Count Olaf) says, "There ain't nothin' better than good grammar!" in front of Aunt Josephine, a GrammarNazi.
* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: The movie is titled ''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events'', perhaps to emphasize the LemonyNarrator.
* IncestSubtext: Violet and Klaus, [[SarcasmMode obviously]]. The film ''does'' sport a bit of chemistry though.
** JustForFun, try watching the movie with the sound off. Pay attention to [[HeldGaze the looks]] the siblings give [[BrotherSisterIncest each other]] throughout the film. Try not to think differently [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation about the characters]] after ''that''.
* IronicNurseryTune: Music-box tunes and the saccharine "Littlest Elf" song play during tragic scenes.
* {{Irony}}: Aunt Josephine is consumed with myriad phobias of dangers real and imagined, and yet she can't bring herself to leave her incredibly dangerous home, which teeters back and forth in the wind on its flimsy scaffolding.
** Olaf lost all legal right to the family's fortune [[spoiler: when his marriage certificate signed by him and Violet bursts into flames thanks to the same contraption he used to burn down the orphans' home and kill their parents]].
* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: Count Olaf repeatedly mispronounces certain words, most noticeably ''sur-preez'' ([[GeniusBonus which is actually]] [[BilingualBonus the French way of pronouncing the word]]).
* JumpScare: The Incredibly Deadly Viper lunging at Klaus and Sunny is at the very least startling.
* LaserGuidedKarma: At the end of the film, after Olaf gets apprehended, [[spoiler: he is tried and found guilty in court and put through most of the significantly harrowing situations the orphans were forced into before serving a life sentence.]]
* LiteraryAgentHypothesis: Lemony Snicket insists that this is a true story that he has extensively researched in an attempt to make the story of the orphans available to the general public.
* MakingASpectacleOfYourself: Count Olaf tries out shades in the general store while waiting for the train that will run over his adopted children.
* MacGyvering: Violet's speciality, she gets herself and her siblings out of countless predicaments by smartly using objects and items around her.
* MythologyGag: Violet begins signing the marriage certificate with her left (non-dominant) hand, before Olaf corrects her. In the book, the marriage is ruled void because she doesn't sign with "her own hand."
* NominalImportance: Like in the books, Count Olaf's assistants are known only as "the hook-handed man," "the bald man with a long nose," "the white-faced women," and "the person of indeterminable gender."
* NonMammalianMammaries: Uncle Monty asks Stefano to milk a snake.
--> '''Count Olaf (as Stefano):''' They used to call me Old [=MacDonald=] up at the old Milking Lab there, because I'd milk these things all day long. But the little udders... they're hard to locate...
* NotHisSled: In the novels, [[spoiler: Violet avoids marriage to Count Olaf by signing the certificate with her left hand (there's a rule stating that signing with your non-dominant hand renders the marriage null and void)]]. In the film, [[spoiler: Count Olaf takes notice that she's trying that, tells her to sign it properly]], causing a need for another method.
* NotThisOneThatOne: The kids find themselves not in the house they liked, with the friendly judge, but in the grim-looking house across the street, with [[BigBad Count Olaf]].
* ObfuscatingStupidity: An AlternativeCharacterInterpretation of Count Olaf could be that while he's portrayed as very goofy and melodramatic by Jim Carrey (surprise, surprise), he's also able to come up cunning plans to steal the Baudelaire fortune behind the scenes.
* OnlySaneMan: Frequently the Baudelaires are this, and Liam Aiken (who played Klaus) himself described the siblings as "the only sane people."
* OrphanedPunchline: As Count Olaf brings his acting troupe in near the beginning, he's saying, "...tub full of ice in Baja, and I realize that these clever girls had stolen my kidney! Imagine my ''[[ItIsPronouncedTroPay surpreez!]]''"
* PapaWolf: Even though he's just as oblivious to Olaf's evil intentions as everyone else, Mr. Poe shows some signs of this for the children... in some ways. The main examples are him being outraged that Sunny was "driving" a car and Olaf tried to gain the Baudelaire fortune by getting Justice Strauss to unknowingly marry Violet to Olaf.
* PaperThinDisguise: Count Olaf, repeatedly, for various reasons.
** His first disguise, Stefano, is actually pretty convincing....in terms of makeup. What is supposed to tip others off is his incompetence. His introductory lines are a good example of {{Malaproper}}, and to young geniuses like Violet and Klaus an immediate giveaway. That said, the only evidence that ensures it's really Count Olaf is TheLawOfConservationOfDetail -- Montgomery concludes just as quickly that "Stefano" is actually a spy from the Herpetological Society.
** Captain [[MeaningfulName Sham]], on the other hand, is so blatantly Olaf it's PlayedForLaughs. [[spoiler:You can see a member of Olaf's acting troupe almost immediately after Sham appears to confirm it]]. "Sham" proceeds to romance Aunt Josephine in an equally blatant example of AdultsAreUseless.
* ProperlyParanoid:
** The Baudelaires, about Count Olaf's many attempts to infiltrate their lives and snatch them for their fortune.
** Zig-zagged with Aunt Josephine. She is afraid of how everything in her house could kill her (except perhaps the house itself, which is horrifically unsound), but later in the act there's a scene in which ''all her crazy fears come true'' (the refrigerator comes loose and falls over; the stove disconnects from the gas lines and ignites from sparks coming from the telephone; the other end of the stove gas line heats a doorknob to the point that it explodes into millions of tiny fragments, etc.). It makes us realize that maybe, just maybe, she's not as crazy as she seems. Then she sells the orphans out to Count Olaf to save her life, and we realize she is truly crazy to think he'll spare someone who could, albeit unlikely, speak out against him and reveal that Captain Sham is actually Count Olaf. Additionally, her fear of realtors is never justified, and is so ridiculous that even the narrator questions it.
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: In the end credits, Creator/JohannesBrahms' ''Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor (Allegro)'' is played by polka instruments, especially the accordion.
* RailroadTracksOfDoom: Olaf's first plan to nab the Baudelaire fortune is to park his car on a grade crossing, and lock the children inside.
** At the end of the movie, we see this being reused for one of Olaf's punishments.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Uncle Monty was this until Count Olaf came along.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In his supposed triumphant speech, Olaf calls out the adults whom the Baudelaires tried to get help from and mocks them for refusing to listen to them.
* RecordNeedleScratch: We open with the credits to a stop-motion animated picture called ''The Littlest Elf,'' whiich goes on until a needle scratch is heard and the set lights go out.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: After Olaf tries to kill the orphans by parking his car with them inside on the grade crossing, Mr. Poe rightly removes them from his guardianship, but only because he believed Olaf let baby Sunny drive. Similarly, Uncle Monty is justifiably suspicious of "Stephano" but suspects him of being a spy from the Herpetological Society, not of being Count Olaf.
* ScarpiaUltimatum: Olaf threatens to drop Sunny from a tower if Violet doesn't go through with his wedding scheme.
* SceneryGorn: The ruins of the Baudelaire mansion are a straight example. Count Olaf's house, with holes in the ceiling and a kitchen in need of a little TLC, is also this trope. And Aunt Josephine's house after it gets demolished.
* SceneryPorn: All other scenery in the above.
* ShamingTheMob: Done by ''Olaf'' of all people to the audience of the play.
* ShowWithinAShow: The theme song from ''The Littlest Elf'' is heard on Count Olaf's tape deck when the orphans are trapped on the grade crossing, and later on Mr. Poe's stereo as his car is being ferried across Lake Lachrymose. Count Olaf has a bobblehead of the elf, whose head is repurposed as part of an improvised pulley to pull on the track switch at the grade crossing, implying it's a film within the world of the story. This ties in perfectly with the conceit that Snicket's intended audience is also part of that world, when he constantly recommends ditching out and seeing that movie instead.
* ShoutOut:
** In the stairwell where we first meet Count Olaf, there is a portrait of Count Olaf in Shakespearian garb, reaching out with his hand. This is almost an exact duplicate of a picture of John Barrymore playing ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}.''
** Lon Chaney in his Film/{{The Phantom of the Opera|1925}} getup can be seen on the magazine Count Olaf browses at the Last Chance General Store.
** The leech attack scene is a lot like the shrieking eel attack in ''Film/ThePrincessBride.''
** When the orphans knock Captain Sham over he cries "Franchise/ChildrenOfTheCorn!''
* SignificantAnagram: ''The Marvelous Marriage'' is written by Al Funcoot. Al Funcoot = Count Olaf.
* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: No one looks into the Baudelaires' guardian situation to make sure that they're being taken care of well. This is more apparent when they're living with Olaf and all sorts of things happen to them. For example, they're given one bed to share, they're forced to do chores for Olaf, and Olaf even strikes Klaus when he tries to protect Sunny. Oh, and there's that little thing of Olaf trying to kill them once he's granted custody.
* SnicketWarningLabel: "I'm sorry to inform that this is ''not'' the movie you will be watching. The movie you are about to see is extremely unpleasant. If you wish to see a film about a happy little elf, then I'm sure there is still plenty of seating in theatre number two. However, if you like stories about clever and reasonably attractive orphans, suspicious fires, carnivorous leeches, Italian food and secret organizations, then stay, as I retrace each and every one of the Baudelaire children's woeful steps. My name is Lemony Snicket, and it is my sad duty to document this tale."
* StealthPun: The Baudelaire children's first guardian after Count Olaf is called Uncle ''Monty,'' who owns ''pythons.'' [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus You guessed it.]]
* SteamPunk: For the most part. A touch of ClockPunk as Lemony Snicket is shown working on his manuscript inside a ClockTower with all the wonderful gears.
* TastesLikeDiabetes: Invoked with the fakeout ''The Littlest Elf'' opening, which is quickly and mercilessly subverted by a RecordNeedleScratch.
* TemptingFate: During the play, Olaf says: "I have the fortune now! And there's NOTHING you can do about it!" Cue Klaus using the light focusing apparatus to burn the marriage certificate.
* ThoseTwoGuys: The two pale faced women from Olaf's troupe.
* TitleDrop: The monologue Violet gives at the start of the trailer.
-->"At times, the world can seem like an unfriendly and sinister place. But believe us when we say that there is much more good in it than bad. And what might seem to be '''a series of unfortunate events''' may, in fact, be the first steps of a journey."
* TooDumbToLive: During the leeches scene The children scorn Aunt Josephine for her cowardice for giving Olaf custody of the children but given the scenario they were in, she had the right idea because the children were at least able to get to safety by getting on Olafs boat while the leaches were chewing on Josephines boat. It wasn't the kids best idea to say that Aunt Josephine was going to tell the authorities RIGHT IN FRONT OF SOMEONE THAT THEY KNOW IS A MURDERER.
** Aunt Josephine was also subject of this trope because she corrected Olafs grammar (which offended him) despite moments earlier the children told her that he is a murderer and during a scene where Olaf could of spared her.
*** Could ''have'' spared her. That is a very serious grammar mistake.
* TheUnintelligible: Sunny (whose speech is helpfully "translated" by subtitles), though Violet and Klaus can understand her.
* UnwittingPawn: Justice Strauss is convinced to play a judge in the play for authenticity, in actuality she is unknowingly officiating a "real" wedding.
* VisualPun: When the Baudelaires first meet Justice Strauss, we only see her side of the street, a lovely little place that would be ideal for three growing children. Then Strauss gently lets them down, by pointing them to Olaf's mansion. If you look closely, the flyover bridge separating their two houses is a [[WrongSideOfTheTracks railroad bridge -- which emit sparks, no less.]] Lampshaded in the DVD commentary.
* WeSellEverything: The Last Chance General Store sells... Sunglasses, liquors, and magazines. Pretty much everything you'd expect in your typical roadside general store.
* WhenSheSmiles: The Baudelaires have some genuinely happy moments in the film in which they smile. Given everything that they go through, it's comforting to see them still be able to smile.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: There is a mix of actors with American accents and actors using English accents.
** If examined closely, the package the children receive at the end of the film is postmarked to Boston, although if Boston were the location, it'd be a highly fictionalized version of the city, considering that the grade crossing scene takes place in an environment not unlike Colorado or New Mexico. At any rate, “England” is mentioned as a foreign country by one of the orphans in the same scene, which means it's probably not set in Great-Britain.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Aunt Josephine is this for ''nearly everything,'' even ''realtors.'' Though it turns out that not only was she completely normal before her husband Ike died, but very ''adventurous'' as well!
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* NonMammalianMammaries: Uncle Monty asks Stefano to milk a snake.
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--> '''Count Olaf (as Stefano):''' They used to call me Old [=MacDonald=] up at the old Milking Lab there, because I'd milk these things all day long. But the little udders... they're hard to locate...
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** Zig-zagged with Aunt Josephine. She is afraid of how everything in her house could kill her (except perhaps the house itself, which is horrifically unsound), but later in the act there's a scene in which ''all her crazy fears come true'' (the refrigerator comes loose and falls over; the stove disconnects from the gas lines and ignites from sparks coming from the telephone; the other end of the stove gas line heats a doorknob to the point that it explodes into millions of tiny fragments, etc.). It makes us realize that maybe, just maybe, she's not as crazy as she seems. Then she sells the orphans out to Count Olaf to save her life, and we realize she is truly crazy to think he'll spare someone who could, albeit unlikely, speak out against him and reveal that Captain Sham is actually Count Olaf.
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** Zig-zagged with Aunt Josephine. She is afraid of how everything in her house could kill her (except perhaps the house itself, which is horrifically unsound), but later in the act there's a scene in which ''all her crazy fears come true'' (the refrigerator comes loose and falls over; the stove disconnects from the gas lines and ignites from sparks coming from the telephone; the other end of the stove gas line heats a doorknob to the point that it explodes into millions of tiny fragments, etc.). It makes us realize that maybe, just maybe, she's not as crazy as she seems. Then she sells the orphans out to Count Olaf to save her life, and we realize she is truly crazy to think he'll spare someone who could, albeit unlikely, speak out against him and reveal that Captain Sham is actually Count Olaf. Additionally, her fear of realtors is never justified, and is so ridiculous that even the narrator questions it.
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While talk of sequels and even a potential film series was certainly up for debate, it's very likely that [[StillbornFranchise there won't be any continuations.]] However, the series has now found new life since Creator/{{Netflix}} carried through on its idea to convert the books into a [[Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents2017 TV series]], slated for release released in early 2017.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While their appearance outside of illustrations are never really detailed in the books, the movie makes them appear much more "pretty" (excepting Violet, who was described as being pretty in the books), making Klaus look much older than he probably should, and making him no longer need glasses, which would be a vital plot point in the fourth book.
** The reason for changing Klaus's glasses from BlindWithoutEm to a pince-nez he only wears while reading was to avoid making him look too similar to Franchise/HarryPotter.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While their appearance outside of illustrations are never really detailed in the books, the movie makes them appear much more "pretty" (excepting Violet, who was described as being pretty in the books), making Klaus look much older than he probably should, and making him no longer need glasses, which would be a vital plot point in the fourth book.
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* BilledAboveTheTitle: The advertising often showed Jim Carrey's name and characters ''way'' above the central characters of the series. While JimCarrey is the main antagonist, the others are not as important.
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* BilledAboveTheTitle: The advertising often showed Jim Carrey's name and characters ''way'' above the central characters of the series. While JimCarrey is the main antagonist, theothers children are not as more important.
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[[http://www.snopes.com/horrors/robbery/kidney.asp Considering Count Olaf's reputation for black comedy, it makes sense...]]
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In 2004, the first three books of the [[BlackComedy darkly humorous]] '''''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''''' franchise were adapted into a feature length film, starring Creator/JudeLaw as Lemony Snicket, Creator/JimCarrey as Count Olaf, and Creator/EmilyBrowning (Violet), Liam Aiken (Klaus), and Kara and Shelby Hoffman (Sunny), as the Baudelaire children.
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In 2004, the first three books of the [[BlackComedy darkly humorous]] '''''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''''' ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' franchise were adapted into a feature length film, starring Creator/JudeLaw as Lemony Snicket, Creator/JimCarrey as Count Olaf, and Creator/EmilyBrowning (Violet), Liam Aiken (Klaus), and Kara and Shelby Hoffman (Sunny), as the Baudelaire children.
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* OrphanedPunchline: As Count Olaf brings his acting troupe in near the beginning, he's saying, "...tub full of ice in Baja, and I realize that these clever girls had stolen my kidney! Imagine my ''[[ItIsPronouncedTroPay surpreez!]]''" [[http://www.snopes.com/horrors/robbery/kidney.asp Considering Count Olaf's reputation for black comedy, it makes sense...]]
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* OrphanedPunchline: As Count Olaf brings his acting troupe in near the beginning, he's saying, "...tub full of ice in Baja, and I realize that these clever girls had stolen my kidney! Imagine my ''[[ItIsPronouncedTroPay surpreez!]]''" surpreez!]]''"
[[http://www.snopes.com/horrors/robbery/kidney.asp Considering Count Olaf's reputation for black comedy, it makes sense...]]]]
* PapaWolf: Even though he's just as oblivious to Olaf's evil intentions as everyone else, Mr. Poe shows some signs of this for the children... in some ways. The main examples are him being outraged that Sunny was "driving" a car and Olaf tried to gain the Baudelaire fortune by getting Justice Strauss to unknowingly marry Violet to Olaf.
[[http://www.snopes.com/horrors/robbery/kidney.asp Considering Count Olaf's reputation for black comedy, it makes sense...
* PapaWolf: Even though he's just as oblivious to Olaf's evil intentions as everyone else, Mr. Poe shows some signs of this for the children... in some ways. The main examples are him being outraged that Sunny was "driving" a car and Olaf tried to gain the Baudelaire fortune by getting Justice Strauss to unknowingly marry Violet to Olaf.
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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Count Olaf was written as very sinister in the original books but in the film he is more over the top and hammy leaning closer to comic relief.
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* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Olaf tries to force Violet to marry him in a staged play.
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* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: Olaf tries to force Violet to marry him in a staged play. His description of what he intends Violet strongly suggests that it would have been an AwfulWeddedLife.
* DeadpanSnarker: Sunny's baby talk has her be snarky to the adult characters, even though they can't understand her.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In his supposed triumphant speech, Olaf calls out the adults whom the Baudelaires tried to get help from and mocks them for refusing to listen to them.
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* TooDumbToLive: During the leeches scene The children scorn Aunt Josephine for her cowardice for giving Olaf custody of the children but given the scenario they were in, she had the right idea because the children were at least able to get to safety by getting on Olafs boat while the leaches were chewing on Josephines boat. It wasn't the kids best idea to say that Aunt Josephine was going to tell the authorities RIGHT IN FRONT OF SOMEONE THAT THEY KNOW IS A MURDERER
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* TooDumbToLive: During the leeches scene The children scorn Aunt Josephine for her cowardice for giving Olaf custody of the children but given the scenario they were in, she had the right idea because the children were at least able to get to safety by getting on Olafs boat while the leaches were chewing on Josephines boat. It wasn't the kids best idea to say that Aunt Josephine was going to tell the authorities RIGHT IN FRONT OF SOMEONE THAT THEY KNOW IS A MURDERERMURDERER.
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* WhenSheSmiles: The Baudelaires have some genuinely happy moments in the film in which they smile. Given everything that they go through, it's comforting to see them still be able to smile.
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While talk of sequels and even a potential film series was certainly up for debate, it's very likely that [[StillbornFranchise there won't be any continuations.]] The closest that the series has to being re-adapted is, if Creator/{{Netflix}} carries through on its idea, to convert the books into an online TV series.
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While talk of sequels and even a potential film series was certainly up for debate, it's very likely that [[StillbornFranchise there won't be any continuations.]] The closest that However, the series has to being re-adapted is, if now found new life since Creator/{{Netflix}} carries carried through on its idea, idea to convert the books into an online a [[Series/{{ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents}} TV series.series]], slated for release in early 2017.
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-->'''Violet:''' Dinner is served. Puttanesca.
-->'''Count Olaf:''' What did you call me?
-->'''Count Olaf:''' What did you call me?
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* TemptingFate: During the play, Olaf says: "I have the fortune now, and there's NOTHING you can do about it!" Cue Klaus using the light focusing apparatus to burn the marriage certificate.
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* TemptingFate: During the play, Olaf says: "I have the fortune now, and now! And there's NOTHING you can do about it!" Cue Klaus using the light focusing apparatus to burn the marriage certificate.
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* NotHisSled: In the novels, Violet avoids marriage to Count Olaf by signing the certificate with her left hand (there's a rule stating that signing with your non-dominant hand renders the marriage null and void). In the film, Count Olaf takes notice that she's trying that, tells her to sign it properly, and nulling the marriage would require some other method.
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* NotHisSled: In the novels, [[spoiler: Violet avoids marriage to Count Olaf by signing the certificate with her left hand (there's a rule stating that signing with your non-dominant hand renders the marriage null and void). void)]]. In the film, [[spoiler: Count Olaf takes notice that she's trying that, tells her to sign it properly, and nulling the marriage would require some other properly]], causing a need for another method.
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* NotHisSled: In the novels, Violet avoids marriage to Count Olaf by signing the certificate with her left hand (there's a rule stating that signing with your non-dominant hand renders the marriage null and void). In the film, Count Olaf takes notice that she's trying that, tells her to sign it properly, and nulling the marriage would require some other method.
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** Olaf lost all legal right to the family's fortune [[spoiler: when his marriage certificate signed by him and Violet bursts into flames thanks to the same contraption he used to burn down the orphans' home and kill their parents]].
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->''Mishaps. Mayhem. Misadventures. Oh joy.''
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-->-- '''{{Tagline}}'''
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* TooDumbToLive: During the leeches scene The children scorn Aunt Josephine for her cowardice for giving Olaf custody of the children but given the scenario they were in, she had the right idea because the children were at least able to get to safety by getting on Olafs boat while the leaches were chewing on Josephines boat. It wasn't the kids best idea to say that Aunt Josephine was going to tell the authorities RIGHT IN FRONT OF SOMEONE THAT THEY KNOW IS A MURDERER
** Aunt Josephine was also subject of this trope because she corrected Olafs grammar (which offended him) despite moments earlier the children told her that he is a murderer and during a scene where Olaf could of spared her.
** Aunt Josephine was also subject of this trope because she corrected Olafs grammar (which offended him) despite moments earlier the children told her that he is a murderer and during a scene where Olaf could of spared her.
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** If examined closely, the package the children receive at the end of the film is postmarked to Boston. The film is non-canon, and if Boston were the location, it'd be a highly fictionalized version of the city, considering that the grade crossing scene takes place in an environment not unlike Colorado or New Mexico.
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** If examined closely, the package the children receive at the end of the film is postmarked to Boston. The film is non-canon, and Boston, although if Boston were the location, it'd be a highly fictionalized version of the city, considering that the grade crossing scene takes place in an environment not unlike Colorado or New Mexico.Mexico. At any rate, “England” is mentioned as a foreign country by one of the orphans in the same scene, which means it's probably not set in Great-Britain.
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* RecordNeedleScratch: We open with the credits to a stop-motion animated picture called ''The Littlest Elf'', which goes on until a needle scratch is heard and the set lights go out.
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* RecordNeedleScratch: We open with the credits to a stop-motion animated picture called ''The Littlest Elf'', which Elf,'' whiich goes on until a needle scratch is heard and the set lights go out.
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** In the stairwell where we first meet Count Olaf, there is a portrait of Count Olaf in Shakespearian garb, reaching out with his hand. This is almost an exact duplicate of a picture of John Barrymore playing ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''.
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** In the stairwell where we first meet Count Olaf, there is a portrait of Count Olaf in Shakespearian garb, reaching out with his hand. This is almost an exact duplicate of a picture of John Barrymore playing ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''.''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}.''
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** The leech attack scene is a lot like the shrieking eel attack in ''Film/ThePrincessBride''.
** When the orphans knock Captain Sham over he cries "Franchise/ChildrenOfTheCorn''!"
** When the orphans knock Captain Sham over he cries "Franchise/ChildrenOfTheCorn''!"
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** The leech attack scene is a lot like the shrieking eel attack in ''Film/ThePrincessBride''.
''Film/ThePrincessBride.''
** When the orphans knock Captain Sham over he cries"Franchise/ChildrenOfTheCorn''!""Franchise/ChildrenOfTheCorn!''
** When the orphans knock Captain Sham over he cries
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* StealthPun: The Baudelaire children's first guardian after Count Olaf is called Uncle ''Monty'', who owns ''pythons''. [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus You guessed it.]]
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* StealthPun: The Baudelaire children's first guardian after Count Olaf is called Uncle ''Monty'', ''Monty,'' who owns ''pythons''. ''pythons.'' [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus You guessed it.]]
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* TemptingFate: During the play, Olaf says, "I have the fortune now, and there's NOTHING you can do about it!" Cue Klaus using the light-focusing apparatus to burn the marriage certificate.
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* TemptingFate: During the play, Olaf says, says: "I have the fortune now, and there's NOTHING you can do about it!" Cue Klaus using the light-focusing light focusing apparatus to burn the marriage certificate.
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* VisualPun: When the Baudelaires first meet Justice Strauss, we only see her side of the street, a lovely little place that would be ideal for three growing children. Then Strauss gently lets them down, by pointing them to Olaf's mansion. If you look closely, the flyover bridge separating their two houses is a [[WrongSideOfTheTracks railroad bridge - which emit sparks, no less.]] Lampshaded in the DVD commentary.
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* VisualPun: When the Baudelaires first meet Justice Strauss, we only see her side of the street, a lovely little place that would be ideal for three growing children. Then Strauss gently lets them down, by pointing them to Olaf's mansion. If you look closely, the flyover bridge separating their two houses is a [[WrongSideOfTheTracks railroad bridge - -- which emit sparks, no less.]] Lampshaded in the DVD commentary.
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Aunt Josephine is this for ''nearly everything'', even ''realtors''. Though it turns out that not only was she completely normal before her husband Ike died, but very ''adventurous'' as well!
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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Aunt Josephine is this for ''nearly everything'', everything,'' even ''realtors''. ''realtors.'' Though it turns out that not only was she completely normal before her husband Ike died, but very ''adventurous'' as well!
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* DirtyCoward: It isn't Aunt Josephine's numerous, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment crippling, irrational phobias]] that qualify her for this title, but rather the way she instantly and shamelessly promises not to reveal Count Olaf's [[PaperThinDisguise "Captain Sham" persona]] and offers for him to take the children when she is threatened. To be fair to her, she's widowed, terrified of everything and got no support in life. Can you blame her for what she did?
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* DirtyCoward: It isn't Aunt Josephine's numerous, numerous [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment crippling, irrational phobias]] that qualify her for this title, but rather the way fact that she instantly and shamelessly freely promises not to reveal keep Count Olaf's [[PaperThinDisguise "Captain Sham" persona]] secret and offers for to give him to take the Baudelaire children when she is threatened. To be fair to her, she's widowed, terrified of everything and got no support in life. Can you blame exchange for her for what she did?own life.
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* FakeOutOpening: In TheFilmOfTheBook.
** Bonus points for giving it its own opening credits, and then not even putting the real title on the screen afterwards. It only appears in the end credits.
** Bonus points for giving it its own opening credits, and then not even putting the real title on the screen afterwards. It only appears in the end credits.
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* FakeOutOpening: In TheFilmOfTheBook.
** Bonus points for giving itExaggerated with ''The Littlest Elf'', which even got its own opening credits, and then not even putting credits. The actual movie doesn't display the real title on the screen afterwards. It only appears in until the end credits.
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* FreakOut: Aunt Josephine came more than slightly undone after the loss of her husband, Ike. She functions, but only just.
* {{Irony}}: Aunt Josephine is consumed with myriad phobias of dangers real and imagined, and yet she can't bring herself to leave her incredibly dangerous home, which teeters back and forth in the wind on its flimsy scaffolding.
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* ProperlyParanoid: The Baudelaires, about Count Olaf's many attempts to infiltrate their lives and snatch them for their fortune.
** Zig-zagged with Aunt Josephine. She is afraid of how everything in her house could kill her, and then the scene where all her crazy fears come true (the refrigerator comes loose and falls over; the stove disconnects from the gas lines and ignites from sparks coming from the telephone; the other end of the stove gas line heats a doorknob to the point that it explodes into millions of tiny fragments, etc.). It makes us realize that maybe, just maybe, she's not as crazy as she seems. Then she sells the orphans out to Count Olaf to save her life, and we realize she is truly crazy to think he'll spare someone who could, albeit unlikely, speak out against him and reveal that Captain Sham is actually Count Olaf.
** Zig-zagged with Aunt Josephine. She is afraid of how everything in her house could kill her, and then the scene where all her crazy fears come true (the refrigerator comes loose and falls over; the stove disconnects from the gas lines and ignites from sparks coming from the telephone; the other end of the stove gas line heats a doorknob to the point that it explodes into millions of tiny fragments, etc.). It makes us realize that maybe, just maybe, she's not as crazy as she seems. Then she sells the orphans out to Count Olaf to save her life, and we realize she is truly crazy to think he'll spare someone who could, albeit unlikely, speak out against him and reveal that Captain Sham is actually Count Olaf.
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* ProperlyParanoid: ProperlyParanoid:
** The Baudelaires, about Count Olaf's many attempts to infiltrate their lives and snatch them for their fortune.
** Zig-zagged with Aunt Josephine. She is afraid of how everything in her house could killher, and then her (except perhaps the house itself, which is horrifically unsound), but later in the act there's a scene where all in which ''all her crazy fears come true true'' (the refrigerator comes loose and falls over; the stove disconnects from the gas lines and ignites from sparks coming from the telephone; the other end of the stove gas line heats a doorknob to the point that it explodes into millions of tiny fragments, etc.). It makes us realize that maybe, just maybe, she's not as crazy as she seems. Then she sells the orphans out to Count Olaf to save her life, and we realize she is truly crazy to think he'll spare someone who could, albeit unlikely, speak out against him and reveal that Captain Sham is actually Count Olaf.
** The Baudelaires, about Count Olaf's many attempts to infiltrate their lives and snatch them for their fortune.
** Zig-zagged with Aunt Josephine. She is afraid of how everything in her house could kill
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Count Olaf in this version is a complete goofball who, while a terrible person, doesn't seem particularly dangerous. [[NotSoHarmless He is no less of a cold blooded murderer than he was in the books.]]
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Count Olaf in this version is a complete goofball who, while a terrible person, doesn't seem particularly dangerous. [[NotSoHarmless [[NotSoHarmlessVillain He is no less of a cold blooded murderer than he was in the books.]]
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* BluffTheImposter: Uncle Monty exposes Count Olaf (pretending to be a herpetologist named Stefano) as an impostor by asking him to milk Petunia the snake.
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* BluffTheImposter: BluffTheImpostor: Uncle Monty exposes Count Olaf (pretending to be a herpetologist named Stefano) as an impostor by asking him to milk Petunia the snake.
