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* GettingCrapPast theRadar: Olaf exclaims "HOLY CRAP!" in a deleted scene from the film.
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* DullSurprise: Klaus and Violet. Somewhat passable given their misfortunes.
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* JumpScare: A mild one, but the Incredibly Deadly Viper lunging at Klaus is at the very least startling, considering we see the viper heading straight for the camera.
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* JumpScare: A mild one, but the The Incredibly Deadly Viper lunging at Klaus and Sunny is at the very least startling, considering we see the viper heading straight for the camera.startling.
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* JumpScare: A mild one, but the Incredibly Deadly Viper lunging at Klaus is at the very least startling, considering we see the viper heading straight for the camera.
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Not this trope. That would be, if anything, hilarious in hindsight.
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* ActorAllusion: An unexpected one, in hindsight: in book number 8, ''The Hostile Hospital'', Violet is compared to Sleeping Beauty. A few years later, her actress Emily Browning would play the lead role in Julia Leigh's "Sleeping Beauty".
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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 has a set of [[WrongSideOfTheTracks railroad tracks - which emit sparks, no less.]]
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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 has a set of [[WrongSideOfTheTracks railroad tracks - which emit sparks, no less.]]]] Lampshaded in the DVD Commentary.
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** [[FlatYes Yes]]. [[TheScrappy We Can.]]
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* TheCharmer: Count Olaf is a very evil version, being able to play everyone like a fiddle, [[OnlySaneMan except the Baudelaires]].
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* DeadHandShot: [[spoiler:Once Uncle Monty dies and the kids find his body, all we see of it is his hand.]]
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** [[FlatYes Yes]]. [[TheScrappy We Can.]]
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* ShowWithinAShow: The theme song from ''The Littlest Elf'' is heard on Count Olaf's car stereo 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 a , 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.
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* ShowWithinAShow: The theme song from ''The Littlest Elf'' is heard on Count Olaf's car stereo 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 a , 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.
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** Lon Chaney in his ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' getup can be seen on the magazine Count Olaf browses at the general store.
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** Lon Chaney in his ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' getup can be seen on the magazine Count Olaf browses at the general store.Last Chance General Store.
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* StealthPun: The Baudelaire children's first guardian after Count Olaf is called Uncle ''Monty'', And he owns ''Pythons''. [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus You figure it out]].
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* StealthPun: The Baudelaire children's first guardian after Count Olaf is called Uncle ''Monty'', And he who owns ''Pythons''. ''pythons''. [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus You figure it out]].guessed it]].
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* 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."
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* {{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.]]
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* {{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.
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** TheDragon: The hook-handed man. [[spoiler:Also TheStarscream.]]
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** TheDragon: The hook-handed man. [[spoiler:Also TheStarscream.]]
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** 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 HarryPotter.
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* ThrowItIn: In response to Klaus saying "Our parents just died," Count Olaf says, "Ah yes, of course. How very, very awful. Wait! Let me do that one more time. Give me the line again! Quickly, while it's fresh in my mind!" The dialog was supposed to end after Klaus says "Our parents just died", but Jim Carrey felt he didn't get the reaction right. Silberling just kept the cameras rolling and Carrey ad-libbed without breaking character.
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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 (JimCarrey), 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.
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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 (JimCarrey), (Creator/JimCarrey), 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.
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* PublicDomainSoundtrack: In the end credits, Creator/JohannesBrahms' ''Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor (Allegro)'' is played by polka instruments, especially the accordion.
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* CityWithNoName: Although many fictional place names are mentioned, the main city where the Baudelaires used to live is never named. (The film identifies it as Boston, but this never occurs in the books).
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* CityWithNoName: Although many fictional place names are mentioned, the main city where the Baudelaires used to live is never named. (The film identifies it as Boston, but this never occurs in the books).books.)
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* GenreSavvy: Count Olaf seems to have read the books, because he knows to [[spoiler: make sure Violet signs her name using her right hand.]]
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** 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 [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation about the characters]] after ''that''.
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** 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 [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation about the characters]] after ''that''.
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* ItIsPronouncedTropay: Count Olaf repeatedly mispronounces certain words, most noticeably ''sur-preez'' ([[GeniusBonus which is actually]] [[BilingualBonus the French way of pronouncing the word]]).
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* ItIsPronouncedTropay: ItIsPronouncedTroPay: Count Olaf repeatedly mispronounces certain words, most noticeably ''sur-preez'' ([[GeniusBonus which is actually]] [[BilingualBonus the French way of pronouncing the word]]).
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: An AlternateCharacterInterpretation 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.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: An AlternateCharacterInterpretation 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.
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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! [[ItIsPronouncedTropay 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! [[ItIsPronouncedTropay [[ItIsPronouncedTroPay Imagine my]] ''[[ItIsPronouncedTropay ''[[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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** Lon Chaney in his ''ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' getup can be seen on the magazine Count Olaf browses at the general store.
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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'', 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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* AscendedFanboy: What got Meryl Streep the part of Aunt Josephine was the request of her daughter, a huge fan of the books.
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* ShoutOut: In the stairwell where we first meet Count Olaf, there is a portrait of 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 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 ''ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' getup can be seen on the magazine Count Olaf browses at the general store.
**The leech attack scene is a lot like the shrieking eel attack in ''Film/ThePrincessBride''.
**In the stairwell where we first meet Count Olaf, there is a portrait of 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 ''ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' getup can be seen on the magazine Count Olaf browses at the general store.
**The leech attack scene is a lot like the shrieking eel attack in ''Film/ThePrincessBride''.
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* FunWithAnagrams: ''The Marvelous Marriage'' is written by Al Funcoot.
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* 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.
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* 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
## 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
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* GenreSavvy: Count Olaf seems to have read the books, because he knows to [[spoiler: make sure Violet signs her name using her right hand.]]
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* 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.
* 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 who looks like neither a man nor a woman."
* ObfuscatingStupidity: An AlternateCharacterInterpretation 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! [[ItIsPronouncedTropay Imagine my]] ''[[ItIsPronouncedTropay surpreez!]]''" [[http://www.snopes.com/horrors/robbery/kidney.asp Considering Count Olaf's reputation for black comedy, it makes sense...]]
* PaperThinDisguise: Count Olaf, over and over again, probably because the Captain Sham and Stephano disguises don't look all that different from his regular appearance.
* 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.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Uncle Monty was this until Count Olaf came along.
* 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.
* 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 car stereo 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 a , 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.
* SocialServicesDoesNotExist
* 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'', And he owns ''Pythons''. [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus You figure it out]].
* 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.
* ThrowItIn: In response to Klaus saying "Our parents just died," Count Olaf says, "Ah yes, of course. How very, very awful. Wait! Let me do that one more time. Give me the line again! Quickly, while it's fresh in my mind!" The dialog was supposed to end after Klaus says "Our parents just died", but Jim Carrey felt he didn't get the reaction right. Silberling just kept the cameras rolling and Carrey ad-libbed without breaking character.
* TheUnintelligible: Sunny (whose speech is helpfully "translated" by subtitles), though Violet and Klaus can understand her.
* WeSellEverything: The Last Chance General Store sells sunglasses, liquors, and magazines.
* 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. 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.
* 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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* MakingASpectacleOfYourself: Count Olaf tries out shades in the general store while waiting for the train that will run over his adopted children.
* 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 who looks like neither a man nor a woman."
* ObfuscatingStupidity: An AlternateCharacterInterpretation 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! [[ItIsPronouncedTropay Imagine my]] ''[[ItIsPronouncedTropay surpreez!]]''" [[http://www.snopes.com/horrors/robbery/kidney.asp Considering Count Olaf's reputation for black comedy, it makes sense...]]
* PaperThinDisguise: Count Olaf, over and over again, probably because the Captain Sham and Stephano disguises don't look all that different from his regular appearance.
* 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.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Uncle Monty was this until Count Olaf came along.
* 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.
* 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 car stereo 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 a , 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.
* SocialServicesDoesNotExist
* 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'', And he owns ''Pythons''. [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus You figure it out]].
* 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.
* ThrowItIn: In response to Klaus saying "Our parents just died," Count Olaf says, "Ah yes, of course. How very, very awful. Wait! Let me do that one more time. Give me the line again! Quickly, while it's fresh in my mind!" The dialog was supposed to end after Klaus says "Our parents just died", but Jim Carrey felt he didn't get the reaction right. Silberling just kept the cameras rolling and Carrey ad-libbed without breaking character.
* TheUnintelligible: Sunny (whose speech is helpfully "translated" by subtitles), though Violet and Klaus can understand her.
* WeSellEverything: The Last Chance General Store sells sunglasses, liquors, and magazines.
* 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. 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.
* 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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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 (JimCarrey), 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.
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* ActorAllusion: An unexpected one, in hindsight: in book number 8, ''The Hostile Hospital'', Violet is compared to Sleeping Beauty. A few years later, her actress Emily Browning would play the lead role in Julia Leigh's "Sleeping Beauty".
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
*BilingualBonus: The children make pasta Puttanesca, an Italian dish translating as "whore's sauce."
* 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.
* {{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.....
* BluffTheImposter: Uncle Monty exposes Count Olaf (pretending to be a herpetologist named Stefano) as an imposter 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.
* BreakingSpeech: Or rather, gloat, 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".
* CassandraTruth: Every time the Baudelaires see through Olaf's two different disguises (his Stephano and his Captain Sham looks), nobody believes them in time.
* 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]''
* CityWithNoName: Although many fictional place names are mentioned, the main city where the Baudelaires used to live is never named. (The film identifies it as Boston, but this never occurs in the books).
* 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 Farenheit 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.
*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 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?
*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.
* 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.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The second of Olaf's [[PaperThinDisguise paper thin disguises]] is that of ship captain, Captain Sham. Also, the Last Chance General Store at the grade crossing.
* FakeAmerican: Australian EmilyBrowning as American Violet Baudelaire. She's American [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield in accent only]].
* 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.
* {{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.]]
* FiveBadBand: The theater troupe.
** TheBigBad: Count Olaf.
** TheDragon: The hook-handed man. [[spoiler:Also TheStarscream.]]
** TheEvilGenius: The bald man with the long nose.
** TheBrute: The person of indeterminate gender.
** TheDarkChick: The two white-faced women.
* GadgeteerGenius: [[WrenchWench Violet.]]
* GloveSnap: Count Olaf does this in his herpetologist disguise.
* 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 [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation about the characters]] after ''that''.
* ItIsPronouncedTropay: Count Olaf repeatedly mispronounces certain words, most noticeably ''sur-preez'' ([[GeniusBonus which is actually]] [[BilingualBonus the French way of pronouncing the word]]).
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