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What a pointless movie. I really don't know why they did this, especially since we already had the far superior and far more faithful live-action Peter Pan movie that that came out in 2003. This was... just awful. Never mind all the eye-rolling and cringy identity politic nonsense they forced in it for no reason besides the filmmakers simply wanting it there, this was just a bad movie. It's boring and completely lacks any of the charm and fun of the original. I don't see how any kids will find this entertaining or even worthy of their attention.
And yeah, let's get to the whole point of completely centering the movie around Wendy. They really should have just named the movie after her. Pretty much the whole movie focused on her while Peter was reduced to a side character with barely any more relevance than Michael or John. I think they focused more on Hook than Peter. Speaking of which, that's pretty much what Peter's whole role had been reduced to, his whole relationship with Hook, and Wendy is there to steal all Peter's thunder and clean up his mess. That's pretty much the whole movie.
So, yeah, that's what you can expect if you decide to waste your time on this. It's dark, depressing, boring, and eye-rolling. Stick to the REAL Peter Pan movie, the one that came out 1953. But if you want a live-action of it, then watch the 2003 one, because there's no contest between that one and this pile of trash. I'm actually being generous to give it a 4/10.
And yeah, let's get to the whole point of completely centering the movie around Wendy. They really should have just named the movie after her. Pretty much the whole movie focused on her while Peter was reduced to a side character with barely any more relevance than Michael or John. I think they focused more on Hook than Peter. Speaking of which, that's pretty much what Peter's whole role had been reduced to, his whole relationship with Hook, and Wendy is there to steal all Peter's thunder and clean up his mess. That's pretty much the whole movie.
So, yeah, that's what you can expect if you decide to waste your time on this. It's dark, depressing, boring, and eye-rolling. Stick to the REAL Peter Pan movie, the one that came out 1953. But if you want a live-action of it, then watch the 2003 one, because there's no contest between that one and this pile of trash. I'm actually being generous to give it a 4/10.
That's the sad truth. This special relies almost entirely on nostalgia to be any good. And while that may have been ok if they had put more effort into the rest of the special, it's obvious that they put the bare minimum of effort into it.
Right off the bat it feels off as they start in the middle of the conflict, explained later via flashback, which gives the special and strange feel, and from there, it depends on nostalgia to give it any worth. The acting really isn't that good, and while the TV series didn't have the best acting either, you can tell that they didn't put in much effort here since the acting in the TV series was even better. The special effects are horrible too, once again, having the effects of the TV series be even better, which is completely inexcusable since they definitely had a bigger budget than the TV series did. And that's not even counting the horrendous CGI that looks like it's out of a bad PlayStation cutscene. When your acting, special effects, and CGI is actually worse than that of a cheap TV series from the 90s, you know they're not even trying.
While it was nice to see much of the old cast back fulfilling their roles, it once more relies heavily on nostalgia to carry it. The actors lack a lot of the chemistry they had in the TV series, and when you look at past reunion specials such as Forever Red, once again, it's inexcusable, especial since they have the funds this time to make sure it shouldn't be as mediocre and the actors have much more experience, but obviously aren't really trying. And then there's the horrible newcomer, Minh, who is just all around unlikeable. Yes, we get that she's supposed to be angry and want revenge, but her character is just completely insufferable and acts like a total brat throughout the entire special that just keeps making everything worse for most of the special. That's not the actress' fault, they just made her character awful.
In short, this special was pretty disappointing, especially after the way it was built up to be the ultimate reunion special or something, that instead relies solely on nostalgia, has no effort put into the roles, an unlikeable new character, and awful special effects, and even the action isn't as good as the TV series, and it all comes to a close in a rather anti-climatic ending. If you want to kill an hour living off nostalgia, I say give it a watch, but you'd probably be better off just watching the old MMPR if you want that, you'll find it much more appealing.
Right off the bat it feels off as they start in the middle of the conflict, explained later via flashback, which gives the special and strange feel, and from there, it depends on nostalgia to give it any worth. The acting really isn't that good, and while the TV series didn't have the best acting either, you can tell that they didn't put in much effort here since the acting in the TV series was even better. The special effects are horrible too, once again, having the effects of the TV series be even better, which is completely inexcusable since they definitely had a bigger budget than the TV series did. And that's not even counting the horrendous CGI that looks like it's out of a bad PlayStation cutscene. When your acting, special effects, and CGI is actually worse than that of a cheap TV series from the 90s, you know they're not even trying.
While it was nice to see much of the old cast back fulfilling their roles, it once more relies heavily on nostalgia to carry it. The actors lack a lot of the chemistry they had in the TV series, and when you look at past reunion specials such as Forever Red, once again, it's inexcusable, especial since they have the funds this time to make sure it shouldn't be as mediocre and the actors have much more experience, but obviously aren't really trying. And then there's the horrible newcomer, Minh, who is just all around unlikeable. Yes, we get that she's supposed to be angry and want revenge, but her character is just completely insufferable and acts like a total brat throughout the entire special that just keeps making everything worse for most of the special. That's not the actress' fault, they just made her character awful.
In short, this special was pretty disappointing, especially after the way it was built up to be the ultimate reunion special or something, that instead relies solely on nostalgia, has no effort put into the roles, an unlikeable new character, and awful special effects, and even the action isn't as good as the TV series, and it all comes to a close in a rather anti-climatic ending. If you want to kill an hour living off nostalgia, I say give it a watch, but you'd probably be better off just watching the old MMPR if you want that, you'll find it much more appealing.
I'm not exaggerating here. This may very well be the worst movie I've ever seen and/or the most boring. This... I don't even know what to call this. Is it even really a movie? I actually had to watch it twice because I fell asleep in the middle of it the first time from sheer boredom. It seems like they were trying to do something like Paranormal Activity, but geez, talk about a massive fail. I mean, I get the creative choice and see what they were trying to do, but it was a horrible decision that didn't work.
Number one problem, the movie is boring. Literally nothing happens in it. There's no plot, no story, nothing. We barely even have characters, if you can even call them that. Literally 95% of the movie is just shots of furniture, toys, walls, doors, etc, while you occasionally hear a character talk in the background. You can barely even call it dialogue too, since there was so little of it that I'd be surprised if the script was more than 2 pages. And they all whisper literally all the time. Half the time they talk so quietly that they put subtitles just so you can tell what they're saying. They're not even conversations, just random sentences that occasionally form a verbal exchange every several minutes.
Other than that, the movie is just different shots of the house, that's it. You literally don't ever even see the characters, you just catch glimpses of their feet and the tops of their heads every so often. Other than that, you're just staring at different angles of the house where nothing happens. There will literally be scenes that are 2-3 minutes long of just a wall where nothing happens and no one says anything before the scene changes to somewhere else.
Truthfully, this movie shouldn't have been more than 15 minutes tops, yet it was painfully stretched out into an hour and forty minutes. There is actually a scene that goes on for about 3 minutes that shows some old school cartoon scene on loop that repeats about 20 times, and then nothing comes of it, the camera just changes to a different angle. You're just waiting and waiting and waiting for something to happen, and it never does. And when anything does finally happen, and I use that term loosely, it's off-screen, so you don't even see anything.
There is just one thing that keeps this from me giving it a 1/10, and that's that it does have maybe 4 or 5 scenes, at most, that show some creepy imagery that puts you on the edge of your seat. Those scenes are effective in delivering a creep factor, but that's it. But nothing ever comes from them though. For example, there's a shot of the doorway into a dark room that shows the shadowy outline of a person inside it. The camera lingers there for about 2 minutes, then the scene changes and nothing happens. Or you see the back of a person's head and watch as they slowly fade away without moving for about 3 minutes, and then that's it, scene over, more staring at a chair or a wall or a pile of toys for another 8 minutes or so.
So when I say nothing happens, I mean nothing happens. There's no plot, nothing is ever explained, you have no idea what's going on. It's just minutes upon minutes of different angles of different rooms of the houses where you occasionally see someone's feet walk by or you see the top of their head, and some dialogue is whispered every so often. That's the whole movie. The highest praise I can give this movie is that it's like the build-up scene to a jump scare that drags on forever, but the jump scare simply never comes. Yes, that is meant to be a compliment, so you can probably imagine just how bad the movie is.
And if all this boring nonsense wasn't enough, the movie just ends. There's no beginning to the movie, it just starts, and no end. It's just, here's a bunch of random scenes with some characters whispering every so often, ok movie over. Save yourself the trouble and avoid this snooze-fest.
Number one problem, the movie is boring. Literally nothing happens in it. There's no plot, no story, nothing. We barely even have characters, if you can even call them that. Literally 95% of the movie is just shots of furniture, toys, walls, doors, etc, while you occasionally hear a character talk in the background. You can barely even call it dialogue too, since there was so little of it that I'd be surprised if the script was more than 2 pages. And they all whisper literally all the time. Half the time they talk so quietly that they put subtitles just so you can tell what they're saying. They're not even conversations, just random sentences that occasionally form a verbal exchange every several minutes.
Other than that, the movie is just different shots of the house, that's it. You literally don't ever even see the characters, you just catch glimpses of their feet and the tops of their heads every so often. Other than that, you're just staring at different angles of the house where nothing happens. There will literally be scenes that are 2-3 minutes long of just a wall where nothing happens and no one says anything before the scene changes to somewhere else.
Truthfully, this movie shouldn't have been more than 15 minutes tops, yet it was painfully stretched out into an hour and forty minutes. There is actually a scene that goes on for about 3 minutes that shows some old school cartoon scene on loop that repeats about 20 times, and then nothing comes of it, the camera just changes to a different angle. You're just waiting and waiting and waiting for something to happen, and it never does. And when anything does finally happen, and I use that term loosely, it's off-screen, so you don't even see anything.
There is just one thing that keeps this from me giving it a 1/10, and that's that it does have maybe 4 or 5 scenes, at most, that show some creepy imagery that puts you on the edge of your seat. Those scenes are effective in delivering a creep factor, but that's it. But nothing ever comes from them though. For example, there's a shot of the doorway into a dark room that shows the shadowy outline of a person inside it. The camera lingers there for about 2 minutes, then the scene changes and nothing happens. Or you see the back of a person's head and watch as they slowly fade away without moving for about 3 minutes, and then that's it, scene over, more staring at a chair or a wall or a pile of toys for another 8 minutes or so.
So when I say nothing happens, I mean nothing happens. There's no plot, nothing is ever explained, you have no idea what's going on. It's just minutes upon minutes of different angles of different rooms of the houses where you occasionally see someone's feet walk by or you see the top of their head, and some dialogue is whispered every so often. That's the whole movie. The highest praise I can give this movie is that it's like the build-up scene to a jump scare that drags on forever, but the jump scare simply never comes. Yes, that is meant to be a compliment, so you can probably imagine just how bad the movie is.
And if all this boring nonsense wasn't enough, the movie just ends. There's no beginning to the movie, it just starts, and no end. It's just, here's a bunch of random scenes with some characters whispering every so often, ok movie over. Save yourself the trouble and avoid this snooze-fest.