Greetings from Lithuania.
I really liked the first ~ hour of "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" (2016). It was very intriguing, good written and tightly directed. But after that, the story become more and more complicated and even convoluted. I won't lie - i didn't understand part of what were going on during the second part of this movie. And it was rated PG-13 with all the "eyes eating stuff?", this is not a movie for the youngest ones.
Overall, "Miss Peregrine's Home" is a disappointment. It is not a bad movie by any means, but it is a very mixed bag. There were many plot elements that could have been made into a TV series, not a 2 hours long movie because by the end i just didn't care what was going on to be honest. While special effects were good and overall craftsmanship of this movie is also first rate, the script in here was its biggest weakness - it wasn't written by Tim Burton, so its not his fault that this movie fail to deliver. They needed to make the story more tight. And were did Judi Dench gone during this movie? Who was her character anyway? If a script can not engage a viewer in the story even after Judi Dench appears on screen then the film has some real problems.
I really liked the first ~ hour of "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" (2016). It was very intriguing, good written and tightly directed. But after that, the story become more and more complicated and even convoluted. I won't lie - i didn't understand part of what were going on during the second part of this movie. And it was rated PG-13 with all the "eyes eating stuff?", this is not a movie for the youngest ones.
Overall, "Miss Peregrine's Home" is a disappointment. It is not a bad movie by any means, but it is a very mixed bag. There were many plot elements that could have been made into a TV series, not a 2 hours long movie because by the end i just didn't care what was going on to be honest. While special effects were good and overall craftsmanship of this movie is also first rate, the script in here was its biggest weakness - it wasn't written by Tim Burton, so its not his fault that this movie fail to deliver. They needed to make the story more tight. And were did Judi Dench gone during this movie? Who was her character anyway? If a script can not engage a viewer in the story even after Judi Dench appears on screen then the film has some real problems.