Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Read the first couple of books in this series a couple of years back, but didn't - rather against expectations - hugely get into them; it was one of those instances where I liked the idea very much more than the execution. Anyhow, response to film is similar - it's neat, and inventive, and engages quite a few of my minor fetishes, and I was digging the set design, costumes, and general ramshackle Gorey/Burton/self-reflexivity thing, but for some reason it never really quite grabbed hold...maybe I was just taking it too much for granted and wasn't suitably appreciative of the subversiveness and joy of the basic idea.