Movie Review : Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a 2016 American 3D dark fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton and written by Jane Goldman, based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Ransom Riggs. The film stars Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Chris O’Dowd, Allison Janney, Rupert Everett, Terence Stamp, Ella Purnell, Judi Dench and Samuel L. Jackson.
Filming began in February 2015 in London and the Tampa Bay Area. It premiered at Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas on September 25, 2016
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children was originally set a release date for July 31, 2015. Later in August 2015, the film’s date was shifted back to March 4, 2016, then to Christmas Day (25 December) 2016, then up to September 30, 2016 to compete against Masterminds and Deepwater Horizon.
Movie Details :
- Directed by : Tim Burton
- Produced by : Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping
- Screenplay by : Jane Goldman
- Based on : Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
- Starring : Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Chris O’Dowd, Allison Janney, Rupert Everett, Terence Stamp, Ella Purnell, Judi Dench, Samuel L. Jackson
- Music by : Mike Higham
- Cinematography : Bruno Delbonnel
- Edited by : Chris Lebenzon
- Production companies : Chernin Entertainment, Tim Burton Productions, TSG Entertainment
- Distributed by : 20th Century Fox
Premise:
When tragedy strikes close to home, 16-year-old Jacob “Jake” Portman is forced to travel to an island filled with mystery at Wales in order to discover the truth of what really happened. Jake’s ordinary life takes an extraordinary turn as the childhood fairytales he heard from his grandfather start to become more plausible. After stumbling into what seems to be a different world, Jake is introduced to the extraordinary Miss Peregrine and her peculiar children at Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. But when what seems to be a fairytale takes a horrific turn, Jake is forced to make a life altering decision in order to protect the ones he loves from the monsters of his grandfather’s past, the creepy Hollows and the dangerous Wights led by the terrifying Mr. Barron.
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016) Movie Review By A.V. Club
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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Rating : 3/5
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016) Movie Review By The Guardian
We get the playfulness of seeing quirky magic powers mixed with the familiarity of how a time loop plays out. Add in Burton’s authorial visual stamp and what we’ve got is an extremely pleasing formula. It gels as Tim Burton’s best (non-musical) live-action movie for 20 years.
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Rating : 4/5
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016) Movie Review By Variety
Goldman’s frequently amusing script is the secret ingredient that makes “Miss Peregrine” such an appropriate fit for Burton’s peculiar sensibility, allowing the director to revisit and expand motifs and themes from his earlier work.
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016) Movie Review By The Hollywood Reporter
For a time, an appealing gentleness prevails that’s rooted in this unique inter-generational romance, a feeling augmented in particular by Purnell’s slow-blooming flower of a performance, and if the film had remained focused more on the improbabilities of this love story, it might have emerged as something rather special.
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016) Movie Review By Empire
While it’s neither as dark, funny nor peculiar as you’d expect from Tim Burton, there’s still much here to admire.
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Rating : 3/5
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016) Movie Review By ScreenCrush
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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