Another adaption of the classic story, one would think there wouldn't be room for another one, what new could yet another adaption bring to this story, this does however, succed most of the way.
The story is as usual, Wendy is tired of the worries she faces as the adult life is coming towards her, Peter Pan is watching her in her room, telling stories about pirates and mermaids, one day he loses his shadow in her room, gets caught, and offers her to come with him to Neverland, where there are no worries and one never grows up to face the adult life, there are pirates, and yeah uh, they can fly! However Wendy does face other worries being on Neverland, and it's not the adult life.
Lets start with what i disliked, or well i wouldn't say disliked, but what i considering the lower parts of the story, first of all i think the movie stranded somewhere in between trying to be both a mature and thoughtfull movie about development, and being a movie made for kids, the story itself is told very mature, maybe too mature, therefore it feels like they had to make up to this with including random scenes where it suddenly becomes very childish, and yeah i don't believe this movie is really made for kids, it's a very mature version of Peter Pan, especially with the obvious relationship between Wendy and Peter, a part is perhaps a bit too intimate for smaller children, however, as a grown up, i consider this the most important difference from older Peter Pan movies, to this one.
P.J Hogan does a good job instructing this movie, it's pretty much average and the only thing i really noticed was the use of color and weather towards Peter Pans feelings, very clearly shown in the final scenes on board of the ship fighting against Captain Hook. A pretty standard, though solid, directing.
The real strength of this movie lies in the two main child actors in the roles of Wendy and Peter Pan, the great chemistry between those two is what really gives a lot of heart and thoughts into the story, something that strives to make it more original even though it's told over an already halfway burnout story. Especially Rachel Hurd-Wood does an absolutely stunning job in the role of Wendy, i usually think kid performances are beneath average, which is natural i guess, but this performance is to a top grade without a doubt, she carries the movie together with Jeremy Sumpter as Peter Pan and Jason Isaacs as Captain Hook.
Sum up, i found this movie enjoyable and interesting, however i can't grade it rather high as we all know all the way through the ending and the different twists to the story, you can't exactly call it original, but the movie experiments a bit with an already known story, good movie i recommend it mainly for adult ppl, but it could probably also go for teens and children, for the adult audience i can only say, don't mind the childish scenes, i found them annoying, but overall, a good movie.
7/10
The story is as usual, Wendy is tired of the worries she faces as the adult life is coming towards her, Peter Pan is watching her in her room, telling stories about pirates and mermaids, one day he loses his shadow in her room, gets caught, and offers her to come with him to Neverland, where there are no worries and one never grows up to face the adult life, there are pirates, and yeah uh, they can fly! However Wendy does face other worries being on Neverland, and it's not the adult life.
Lets start with what i disliked, or well i wouldn't say disliked, but what i considering the lower parts of the story, first of all i think the movie stranded somewhere in between trying to be both a mature and thoughtfull movie about development, and being a movie made for kids, the story itself is told very mature, maybe too mature, therefore it feels like they had to make up to this with including random scenes where it suddenly becomes very childish, and yeah i don't believe this movie is really made for kids, it's a very mature version of Peter Pan, especially with the obvious relationship between Wendy and Peter, a part is perhaps a bit too intimate for smaller children, however, as a grown up, i consider this the most important difference from older Peter Pan movies, to this one.
P.J Hogan does a good job instructing this movie, it's pretty much average and the only thing i really noticed was the use of color and weather towards Peter Pans feelings, very clearly shown in the final scenes on board of the ship fighting against Captain Hook. A pretty standard, though solid, directing.
The real strength of this movie lies in the two main child actors in the roles of Wendy and Peter Pan, the great chemistry between those two is what really gives a lot of heart and thoughts into the story, something that strives to make it more original even though it's told over an already halfway burnout story. Especially Rachel Hurd-Wood does an absolutely stunning job in the role of Wendy, i usually think kid performances are beneath average, which is natural i guess, but this performance is to a top grade without a doubt, she carries the movie together with Jeremy Sumpter as Peter Pan and Jason Isaacs as Captain Hook.
Sum up, i found this movie enjoyable and interesting, however i can't grade it rather high as we all know all the way through the ending and the different twists to the story, you can't exactly call it original, but the movie experiments a bit with an already known story, good movie i recommend it mainly for adult ppl, but it could probably also go for teens and children, for the adult audience i can only say, don't mind the childish scenes, i found them annoying, but overall, a good movie.
7/10