Her eyes have a manic intensity to them that never wavers. As the titular Miss Peregrine, Green demonstrates her classic smolder. Thankfully, what can be said about Butterfield cannot be said for Eva Green, who is absolutely stellar as always. One would think after “The Lego Movie’s” perfect skewering of “the Special” that writers this played-out trope, yet here’s another Chosen One to throw on the pile. While I’m sure Butterfield is a nice young man who always eats his vegetables and calls his grandmother and whatnot, he has the charm of wet mud here.Īlthough Jake, as yet another “Chosen One” (the most tedious archetype in fiction) does not give him much personality to begin with (the more nondescript the hero, the better the audience can project themselves, right?), Butterfield’s near-constant blank face and muted reactions fail to help enrich an already dull doormat, made even more irritating by the constant reminders of his peculiarity. One scene involves one of the Ymbrynes (that’s what the ersatz mutants in this universe are called don’t ask me why) controlling the corpse of another child via a marionette, and I’m impressed that Burton managed to include such a cool, morbid image inside a children’s film. While far from groundbreaking – the film borrows the plot threads of at least half a dozen different young adult narratives – the film still retains a distinctive sense of Burton-y humor and tone, along with his trademark visual flair. You may have noticed this plot is more than a little convoluted. Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children lives inside, and wishes to harvest their eyeballs in order to restore his human form. Jackson) threatens to destroy the 1940s time loop that Charles Xavier’s … oops … I mean Ms. Nevertheless, danger lurks on the horizon when the sinister Mr. This is no ordinary orphanage though, as it provides a safe haven to children with special – one might even say peculiar – abilities, including a girl with a mouth on the back of her head, a boy with bees in his stomach and two creepy twin Gorgons. Jake embarks to Wales with his estranged father – wouldn’t be a Burton film without one – to find his grandpa’s childhood orphanage. There’s some cheap genocide imagery in this film that seems more a signifier than substance.) He discovers he has inherited his grandfather’s ability to see Lovecraftian monsters called “Hollowgast.” (Yes, really. It’s pretty much the definition of “fine.”Īsa Butterfield plays Jake Portman, who assumes the typical Burton protagonist as the misunderstood pale-skinned brunette lad. His most recent project, “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” based on the novel by Ransom Riggs, is neither particularly great nor overly awful. Now, that is not to say he has started to churn out masterpieces à la “Ed Wood,” yet if a friend were to take “Frankenweenie” or “Big Eyes” out on Redbox, I wouldn’t object to it, either. Yet as soon as he cut the dead weight that is Johnny Depp from his filmography, a marked jump in quality ensued. After he delivered the dullest possible take on “Alice in Wonderland” coupled with the one-two punch of the asinine “Dark Shadows,” I was worried that he lost his delightfully macabre touch forever. Music by Mike Higham & Matthew Margeson film editor, Chris Lebenzon director of photography, Bruno Delbonnel.It’s nice to see Tim Burton make decent movies again, despite the fact they often fall short of the potential he displayed in the 1990s. Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of fantasy action/violence and peril CHV rating: PG Que rating: G. Special features: The Peculiar story The Peculiars hollows and ex-hollows Map of days: Miss Peregrine's home/Blackpool Tower Wish that you were here by Florence + The Machine music video Gallery: Sketches by Tim Burton and photographs.ġ blu-ray videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color 4 3/4 in.īlu-ray widescreen (1.85:1) presentation English descriptive audio 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 (English) English descriptive audio 5.1 Dolby digital 5.1 (Spanish, French) requires Blu-ray player. Includes additional audio tracks and subtitles not listed on the container. Jacob discovers that only his own special peculiarity can save his new friends. However the mystery is deeper than he had thought, as he gets to know the residents and learn about their special powers. Jacob discovers clues to a mystery and stumbles upon Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
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