You could be hasty and call “The Spiderwick Chronicles” another fantasy movie and then leave it alone, saying that if you’ve seen one fantasy movie you’ve seen them all.

Let me contradict you!

Even though it has some ingredients similar to the usual fantasy movies there are some original ingredients too.

The film is based on the children's fantasy series by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black and presents the story of the Grace family (Jared, his twin brother Simon, his sister Mallory, and their mom) who moves from New York into the house inherited by their mother from her great aunt Lucinda (Joan Plowright) who is in a mental institution for thinking that her father, Arthur Spiderwick (David Strathairn), was abducted by fairies.

Soon strange things start to happen in the house, and the family blames Jared (Freddie Highmore, who also plays Simon).

The three brothers start to search the house to see what is going on, and that is how they discover the supernatural world that surrounds the Spiderwick estate.

As the family discovers the strange creatures that surrounds them and tries to fight them they are also forced to fight with their family conflicts.

Jared unleashes the supernatural world when he finds a book by his uncle Arthur, Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the Fantastical World around You, in spite of the warnings given by house goblin, Thimbletack (Tim Short). The book is a compendium of the fairy secrets very much desired by ogre Mulgarath (Nick Nolte), who wants to destroy the fairy land. So the siblings begin to search for Uncle Arthur who is the only one who can destroy the “Field Guide.”

The movie is set to be released February 14 and so far has received positive reviews. According to the Rotten Tomatoes aggregator, the movie received 77% based on 35 reviews from film critics with a consensus “An entertaining children's adventure with heart and imagination to spare.”

Another aggregator, Metacritic, it gave 58 % based on 14 reviews.

David Wiegand, writing for San Francisco Chronicle, finds “The Spiderwick Chronicles” different form the Potter movies, without any complex messages and universal truths. “Instead, it wants us to have a good time, above and beyond everything. That's a wish you'll be happy to fulfill,” he says.