The movie is better than the current show.

The movie version was better. Yes, this new show is closer to the books. But I do not care about how the film is close to them .However, casting, acting, visuality and narration was great in the film . The film captured the melancholic ,gothic and dark tone in the books with its visuality, atmosphere ,costumes and narration. The only comedy in the film was Jim Carry. And he was not completely funny at all. I mean his was dark comedy. And the casting of the film was very harmonious with the books. And those complaining that the film compressed the 3 books into one film ,to me it was not a problem and they had to do so. Because it was a series of 13 books. They were planning to complete the series with 2nd and 3rd film. It was impossible to make one film per book because each year the children in the film grew up . They could not make 13 films for 13 books, right?