The "threat" posed by Barron has a couple of interesting A lateĭevelopment involving another mentor (called Ymbrynes) like Miss Peregrine, Miss Avocet (Judi Dench), just seems shoehorned into the proceedingsįor no discernable reason other than to give the always enjoyable Dench a little screentime. But the film also wants to address Jake's coming of age, including his predictable realization that he's a "peculiar", too. ![]() Their powers while under threat from a supernatural force, in this case baddies called Hollows, one of whom is a shapeshifter named Barron (Samuel Part of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children plays very much in the Potter or X-Men mold, with the kids revealing Jane Goldman's adaptive screenplay struggles mightily to elide some of the illogic that'sĪlready on display, but this is one of many whimsically themed Burton films where preposterous plot mechanics simply need to be accepted in orderįor the film to make whatever sense it's able to muster. Plop out into 2016 to get Jake), the kids and Miss Peregrine have stayed alive for years by reliving the same day over and over, and it is in fact theĭay that the home ended up getting bombed (at night). In a somewhat baffling plot conceit (especially considering the fact that kids just Turns out to be the aformentioned Groundhog Day aspect. Several unexplained phenomena that the film's screenplay never adequately explains, it turns out that the kids Jake spots aren't ghosts butĪre in fact the very same children Abe grew up with decades ago, sent by Miss Peregrine to fetch Jake back to that aforementioned "loop", which It's an abandoned wreck,īeen bombed by the Luftwaffe and seemingly full of ghosts-including one that seems to think Jake is Abe, at least for a moment. Jake breaks away from Frank and finds Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children, but not in the state he hoped to. ![]() Despite some misgivings, Frank, an avidīirdwatcher, agrees to take Jake to the isolated island of Cairnholm, a rustic location with just a handful of residents and one solitary hotel. Golan (Allison Janney), but are a littleįreaked out themselves when Golan agrees with Jake that following up on his grandfather's long running bedtime stories about a home for "peculiar"Ĭhildren in Wales might help the young man reach some closure after the death of his grandfather. Jake's concerned parents Frank (Chris O'Dowd) and Maryann (Kim Dickens) get him into counseling with Dr. Them had seen an odd looking African American man with glowing white eyes standing in the middle of a fog laden road.) Some kind of spectral monster approaching, an entity his co-worker Shelly (O-lan Jones) can't see. Jake is understandably distraught, especially when he sees Abe grabs Jake's arm before expiring andĮmits a seemingly baffling array of information about "loops" and "1943". His granddad's house to find it in disarray, and his grandfather near death in the woods behind the home. His addled grandfather Abe (Terence Stamp), since the elderly man is under the impression some nefarious types are out to get him. The film is certainly entertaining, but it by and large fails to connectĮmotionally despite some overt attempts to tug pretty mercilessly at various heartstrings.īefore Miss Peregrine and her brood are introduced, though, the film focuses on teenager Jake Portman (Asa Butterfield), who is forced to check up Men-ish) tendencies with what might be called a certain Groundhog Day aspect to the plot mechanics. ![]() Then, that Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children turns out to be a fairly staid enterprise, at least by typical Burton standards, one thatĬan't quite meld its Potter-esque (and it might be added X. It gave the book a really distinctive identity that would seem to play perfectly into the visual aesthetic of director Tim Burton. The film's source book by Ransom Riggs was aįascinating variation on what is called an "epistolary novel," with (in this case) vintage photographs taking the place of "found" objects like letters and Peregrine (Eva Green), a gifted individual herself who is able to transform into her surname's bird form. Least on a surface level, since it involves a gaggle of "gifted" youths whose special powers have made them protectorates of the titular Miss Alma Is there still magic in the cinematic universe after the end of the Harry Potter franchise? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children would seem to be a fitting substitute, at Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, December 16, 2016 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Blu-ray Review
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