88 E o u ~ Co >c:: :g o N ~ N Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events **'/2 DreamWorks, $38.99 This adaptation of the wickedly amusing chil dren's books got everything right except the story.</p><p> The casting is great (especially a hammy Jim Carrey), the sets are eye-popping and the tone of pleasant maHce is dead on.</p><p> But squeezing in plots from the first three books was a big mistake: We don't know any of the characters well enough to care when they're D!.~' killed off.</p><p> Very amus "'for Fake *** Criterion, $39.95 Give Orson Welles a movie Camera and he could play for ever.</p><p> He may not make a film in any traditional sense, but he will have fun.</p><p> You can, too, with this indulgent treatise on forgeries from 1976.</p><p> The mar velous extras include an 88 minute film on his unfinished projects that represent cine ma's most tantalizing tease. ing extras include commentary, deleted scenes, a making-of documentary and more.</p><p> Undertow *** MGM,$26.98 This gothic children's story - a bad guy invades the home; orphaned kids go on the road in search of treasure -is the latest intriguing film by director David Gordon Green.</p><p> It's elevated by Josh Lucas (who looks like Matthew McConaughey) and Jamie Bell.</p><p> The best extra is a commen tary by Green and Bell.
