Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
- Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
- Release Date: Sep 30, 2016
- Summary:
- Director: Tim Burton
- Genre(s): Adventure, Fantasy, Family
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 31
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Mixed: 12 out of 31
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Negative: 3 out of 31
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This is pretty much Burton doing an "X-Men" movie, with a plucky yesteryear vibe and evil Samuel L. Jackson thrown in for extra fun.
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The sense of film craft here is so delicate and assured that, even at its most razzle dazzle-prone moments, the movie never seems to be straining for effect.
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The movie bogs down only toward the finish, when it turns into a metahuman free-for-all.
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The film feels overstuffed and way too familiar, with Burton repeating tricks from his greatest hits (think Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands). And the fun runs out much before the film ends. But stick with it just for those times when Burton flies high on his own peculiar genius.
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The problem is that everything fun and resonant about the movie (like a boy whose eye works as a movie projector, unspooling his dreams onto the wall) ends up feeling rather ornamental.
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If this were a better, more entertaining film, Miss Peregrine’s could have been a thoughtful and bold metatextual thesis on Burton’s entire career. Instead, like its partially-formed villainous apparitions, it comes frustratingly close to achieving substance.
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This adventure should have been spooky and witty and exciting, but instead it’s just dreary and dull. Peculiarity has rarely been this tedious.
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