Peter Pan & Wendy Review

 

Peter Pan & Wendy is a fantasy adventure movie, as well as a live-action remake of the 1953 film, Peter Pan. It's produced by Walt Disney Pictures, Whitaker Entertainment, and Roth/Kirschenbaum Films and distributed by Disney+. Peter Pan & Wendy is written by David Lowery and Toby Halbrooks and directed by David Lowery.

The story is a young girl named Wendy is afraid to leave your childhood home behind. She along with her younger brothers John and Michael, soon meet Peter Pan. A boy who not only doesn't want to grow up, but can also fly. Wendy and her brothers soon join Peter to his journey back to Neverland, and just when they're all having fun, Captain Hook arrives and plans to get his revenge on Peter.

Initial Reaction

The reason why I wanted to review was because at this rate it's pretty much a tradition for me to review these remakes, so why stop now?

Cons

One of the three major issues with this, is Wendy. The movie seemed to be way more about her than Peter Pan. Sure, her name is part of the title, but she given second bill, but she treated as the main character. Seriously, if you ever watch this, really pay attention to how much we focus on Wendy, then we do Peter. It also didn't help that apparently she's just great at stuff. She's so good at sword fighting she can take on two full grown men at once, and the moment she's able to fly, absolutely perfect. No struggle at all, she can just fly. Oh apparently she just understands Tinkerbell more than Peter Pan, even though Peter and Tink have more history with each other, compared to Wendy and Tink, who've only known each other for, I don't know, a day or two? So if we're lead to believe that Wendy's good at this stuff, what was the point of even having Peter Pan be here? And the butchering of characters doesn't stop there, cause they also did the same to Captain Hook. They had the nerve to give him a backstory. A backstory where were supposed to feel sad for him. Now writing a sympathetic villain can work, it's been down before. Just look at comic book villains such as DC's Mr. Freeze and Marvel's The Lizard. Here, we're not gonna feel sympathetic for the guy, because we know he's willing to kill innocent children and then not feel any sort of remorse for it. Then there's the changes to the story. Now it's not like changing the story can't work, Hell, the 1953 film did a lot of changes, but it worked cause they still kept somethings from the book. Here, the changes weren't need. For instance and this is a change most of you are probably aware, the Lost Boys now also have girls in their group. That change makes no sense, because in the book and I think (although there's a possibility I'm wrong), even the '53 film said girls couldn't be in the Lost Boys because girls are too smart to get lost. So the classics are saying girls are too smart, and guess this one's saying girls are just as dumb as the boys. So when it came to the changes, characters, and the overall story, the movie just suffers.

Middle Ground

I've got nothing, so just scroll down.

Pros

There's two things the movie has going for and that's the performances and the cinematography. Despite the lackluster story, the actors and actress still managed to give us some pretty good performances, and there is a nice look to the movie. It's just sad these two things weren't given to a much better product.

Overall folks, while it's by no means the worst movie I've seen this year, it's not worth it. You can spend the rest of your life not seeing this and you wouldn't be missing anything.

My final rating is, Bad but Harmless.

While that's all for now. Come back on Saturday, May 6th, for my review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.