After Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire's parents perish in a terrible fire, they are carted off to live with their distant relative, Count Olaf, an evil fiend who is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.
A sick joke of a film that realizes the best children's entertainment doesn't hide from the bleaker side of life, but plunges into the void and respects kids enough to assume they can handle it.