Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children | 9/30/16

[Darth Homer]

Well the Guardian liked it: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/26/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children-review-mordant-british-ya-x-men-is-tim-burtons-best-in-20-years

[trifle]

2 minutes ago, Darth Homer said:

Well the Guardian liked it: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/26/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children-review-mordant-british-ya-x-men-is-tim-burtons-best-in-20-years

 

Maybe it will be like Bridget Jones's Baby and be saved by overseas.

[Arlborn]

So far so good. Go on Tim Burton, slay this for us.

[Morieris]

Might have to double feature this with Queen of Katwe on Friday. This is more positive than I hoped so far.

[MovieMan89]

I legit just saw this is rated PG-13. What the actual fuck? I was 1000% under the assumption it was a PG family Burton film ala Alice. Lol, yeah this is beyond hope at the box office. Was thinking a Goosebumps type run could happen, but not as PG-13. 

[Arlborn]

Just checked Tim Burton's credits as a director for the last 20 years. I wonder if they drew the line at Mars Attack! or at Ed Wood.

[Darth Homer]

2 minutes ago, MovieMan89 said:

I legit just saw this is rated PG-13. What the actual fuck? I was 1000% under the assumption it was a PG family Burton film ala Alice. Lol, yeah this is beyond hope at the box office. Was thinking a Goosebumps type run could happen, but not as PG-13. 

Don't see the PG-13 rating hurting it personally, especially when it seems it only got that for scariness. If my kids can handle Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, etc. they should have no problem with this.

[TalismanRing]

22 minutes ago, Arlborn said:

Just checked Tim Burton's credits as a director for the last 20 years. I wonder if they drew the line at Mars Attack! or at Ed Wood.

 

Ed Wood is 1994, so 22 years ago.  Still his best film.

 

 

[Arlborn]

3 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

 

Ed Wood is 1994, so 22 years ago.  Still his best film.

 

 

I love that film as well. I'm also really fond of Mars Attack! but for completely different reasons

Edited September 26, 2016 by Arlborn

[robertman2]

Mars Attacks! is great.

[Goffe]

This may not be the worst of Tim Burton's recent movies, but it's certainly the most disappointing. Thank God for Eva Green.

http://www.indiewire.com/2016/09/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children-review-tim-burton-eva-green-1201730408/

[TalismanRing]

2 minutes ago, Goffe said:

This may not be the worst of Tim Burton's recent movies, but it's certainly the most disappointing. Thank God for Eva Green.

http://www.indiewire.com/2016/09/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children-review-tim-burton-eva-green-1201730408/

 

That might qualify as a rave from Ehrlich  for a "mainstream" movie.

 

 

[Goffe]

The embargo was lifted btw....Variety, THR, NYT, etc reviews are all out

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[TalismanRing]

Slant gave it 3 stars  - cue the Apocalypse (no, not that one)

 

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children

[Goffe]

I don’t mean to diminish Burton or his past work, but Miss Peregrine only really works as a meta-commentary on the director and his worldview. It’s disposable entertainment at best, and it’s basically Burton’s take on the superhero genre without making a Marvel or DC movie. Rating: C
http://collider.com/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children-movie-review/

 

For at least the first hour, perhaps a bit more, Tim Burton seems well on his way to making one of his best films in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children...But, alas, then the beauty and the bane of mass market contemporary cinema — CGI and enormous special effects — take over and marginalize the genuine narrative conviction that's up to then been generated in this cleverly conceived confection.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/miss-peregrines-home-peculiar-children-932109

 

This adventure should have been spooky and witty and exciting, but instead it’s just dreary and dull. Peculiarity has rarely been this tedious.

http://www.thewrap.com/miss-peregrine-home-for-peculiar-children-review/

 

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children may be too rigidly confined to the strictures its genre to feel genuinely important or revolutionary, but it certainly is peculiar. It’s an impressive and aspirational fantasy film for children and an entertaining, intelligent allusion for adults. Tim Burton has crafted a winning piece of entertainment out of big ideas and undeniably decent morality, and it’s well worth taking in.
http://www.craveonline.com/entertainment/1126193-miss-peregrines-home-peculiar-children-review-tim-burtons-refugee-stars  

 

Burton creates a beautiful world full of amazing individuals in Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, but it can’t make up for lack of originality and an uninspired lead in the form of Asa Butterfield . Rating: 2.5 out of 4

http://cwtampa.cbslocal.com/2016/09/25/movie-review-miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children/

 

Despite the few duff performances, and some overly earnest dialogue at times, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is thoroughly enjoyable for the bulk of its run time, and Burton proves once again that he can do great things given the proper parameters. I’d gladly watch a few more of these movies. Not perfect, but roundly fun. Rating: 3.5 out of 5

http://nerdist.com/miss-peregrine-is-tim-burtons-most-enjoyable-in-years-review/

 

With 'Miss Peregrine,' Tim Burton Shows He's Still Got Wonder in Him

When Jake crosses the threshold into the imaginative frontier of Miss Peregrine’s loop, the contrast between those two worlds is sharp, conceived by a way better director than a film targeted at teenagers usually gets.

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/with-miss-peregrine-tim-burton-shows-hes-still-got-wonder-in-him-9145075

 

Seemingly revelling in his surrounds, Burton delivers the requisite smoke, shadow and spooky goings on with appropriate aplomb. Rating: 4 out of 5

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/film-reviews/84596333/movie-review-miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children

 

But the script feels like it's been rewritten too many times (or perhaps not enough – it never can make a central time-travel angle really work). And the direction is hit-or-miss – obsessing over the things that have always appealed to Burton (loners, monsters, pale beauties), shrinking from the subjects that don't (mostly, everyday life). Rating: 2 out of 5

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2016/09/miss_peregrines_home_for_peculiar_children_review.html

 

“Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” is a movie intended to challenge the idea that everything has already been discovered, that the world has been completely strip-mined of its wonder. If the message comes across as canned and unconvincing, perhaps that’s because director Tim Burton has spent a large part of the last 15 years ghoulishly repackaging some of the most exhausted stories in Western culture — at this point, his involvement in this project is like John Lasseter making a film that lamented the decline of hand-drawn animation, or Zak Snyder making a film that lamented the loss of quality blockbuster entertainment. Rating: C-

http://www.indiewire.com/2016/09/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children-review-tim-burton-eva-green-1201730408/

 

ouch the last one

Edited September 26, 2016 by Goffe

[That One Girl]

C from Stuckmann...oof.

[MovieMan89]

Burton just can't seem to make worthwhile films this decade. He had such a solid track record too prior to Alice, Apes and maybe Mars Attacks aside. 

[Fancyarcher]

2 hours ago, trifle said:

 

Maybe it will be like Bridget Jones's Baby and be saved by overseas.

 

The book and series it's based off isn't really known by anyone outside of the U.S., so I'm not sure how well it'll do overseas. Could flop for all we know.

Edited September 26, 2016 by Daniel Dylan Davis

[Goffe]

Of all reviews I read, Ehrlich definitely wrote the best one. 

 

Also, I have seen a lot of them criticizing Butterfield dullness

Edited September 26, 2016 by Goffe

[DAJK]

Don't care about reviews still seeing this. And I'll probably also watch big fish again this week. Hail burton!

Edited September 26, 2016 by DAJK