Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (also known as A Series of Unfortunate Events) is a 2004 American adventure dark comedy film directed by Brad Silberling and written by Robert Gordon, based on the first three novels of the book series A Series of Unfortunate Events. It stars Jim Carrey, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning, Timothy Spall, Catherine O’Hara, Billy Connolly, Cedric the Entertainer, Luis Guzmán, Jennifer Coolidge, and Meryl Streep, with Jude Law as the voice of Lemony Snicket.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemony_Snicket’s_A_Series_of_Unfortunate_Events
The issue is that the narration has a very strong voice in the books that pulled the story through the slower bits. The movies didn’t incorporate that (mostly cause they were covering 3 books in a single movie) and it lost a lot of the charm that made the stories work. The series included a narrator character that brought those elements back in, and they’re some of my favorite parts of the show.