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We’re all mourning over the loss of the magic that was definitely not portrayed in our newest film based on our most beloved children’s novel by J.M. Barrie.
From the first time Peter Pan has ever been in cinemas, nobody has ever taken such an original spin on the legendary fairytale as Joe Wright, the director of Pan.
X-Men star Hugh Jackman, Mamma Mia star Amanda Seyfried, and many more well-known actors team up to create the most action packed, imagination filled back story of the extraordinary children’s novel, Peter Pan. Or was it?
As much as this film has been praised and bigged-up by the media, the film didn’t create as much magic as Peter Pan is meant to.
Pan was brought out to give an idea to the back story of Peter, when he first went to the Pirate-infested Neverland, when he found out he could fly, and when he discovered that fairies do exist, never did we expect that he and Captain James Hook would be partners-in-war, let alone friends!
The film starts in a dreary looking London orphanage, with a teary eyed Amanda Seyfried leaving a baby (baby Peter) behind during World War Two, capturing a sense of darkness and danger. (which already seems to dull the magic) After a young Pan is captured by pirates, he is then taken to dig in a mine with hundreds and hundreds of other young boys (which is all very ‘Snow White’ don’t you think?) to find ‘Pixie dust’ for the main baddie – Captain Bluebeard (Hugh Jackman) – I know right, not Captain Hook!
But that’s just the weird part. In this twisted tale, this is where Pan meets our famous, meant to be one handed Hook, but through out the film, it only portrays the friendship that grows between Pan and the (two handed) James Hook.
Pan meets Hook (Garrett Hedlund) in the mines, where they both worked and where they both discovered (as well as another three thousand pirates and children) that Pan was the only boy to step foot in Neverland who could fly.
Together they battle against the pirates who killed Pan’s mother, along side Princess Tiger Lily, (Rooney Mara) and discover some of Neverlands creatures – like three mermaids, all with the face of Cara Delevingne, and Neverbirds, a seriously creepy invention that should never have happened, flying crocodiles, and bubbles of sea floating in the sky. But nothing would have prepared us for the no show of Wendy, or the three words and one sighting from our beloved Tinkerbell.
Peter Pan has very high expectations of imagination and magic, but no amount of fairy dust or happy thoughts can change the fact that every other Peter Pan based movie has captured everything so much better than how Joe Wright did (this most definitely includes special effects and Peter’s child-like personality)
Rate 3/5