Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
I went to go see Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children's movie adaptation this weekend. As a movie I thought it was great. As an adaptation of an amazing book, quite terrible. I gave it a C+ overall.
Going into it I knew there were going to be a ton of changes. I mean obviously, the book and the move are never the same. There were even some changes I was excited about. But because its easier I am going to start with my problems with the film. I color coded them. Pink are problems with the movie as a movie and green are problems with the movie as an adaptation:
- The villains were just not threatening at all. The movie is rated PG-13 for "intense sequences of fantasy action/violence and peril". Maybe that made me higher my expectations. I just felt like it was very juvenile. The villains were the main source of comedic relief in this story which just felt wrong to me. I felt like it cheapened the movie as a whole.
- It all felt a little rushed. I was with my friend who had only read the first half of the book and she literally looked at me twenty minutes into the movie and whispered, "This is as far as I've gotten." I just felt like they didn't set anything up. They barely told you anything about his family or where he worked and why he worked there. They didn't tell you much about Jacob's emotional turmoil. It was very clear to me they were rushing to get to the children's home and I wished they would've slowed things down. Even if I hadn't read the book first I still think I would have felt it was to slow.
- They never buried Victor. Or even really explained who Victor was. I guess the bigger problem that I had that stemmed off of things like this is that they didn't really seem to care about the story at all. I get that of course they don't that its Hollywood and they just want to make a buck. And it was not as bad as it could have been. I just felt like they neglected the emotion in the book. I know its hard to translate the emotion of the book into the movie but I felt like they didn't even try.
- MILLARD! He's the one who has the loop memorized, not everyone else!
- They left the loop! They don't leave the loop! That is not how it happened! That is not how a lot of it happened! That is not how it ended! And that is all I will say about the ridiculous amount of plot changes.
- I loved the casting. There were a few characters I would've casted differently but other than those few I was really pleased. They were all just as adorable in the movie as they were in the book.
- I really liked movie Enoch. Which is weird because he is SO DIFFERENT from book Enoch. I just liked him better as an older character. He also lost his creep factor and I was okay with it.
- I really loved the set for the children's home. I thought it was fantastic.
- It was entertaining, when I was mad at the previously stated things.
So there are some of my thoughts about the movie. One thing I wanted to mention that I didn't list was the change of Olive and Emma. I was more upset with the change in Olive's age then their peculiarities. I just wasn't all that bothered by the peculiarity change in the movie which I was surprised by. I am currently trying to read Hollow City but I've got a book I have to read for English first. What did you think of the movie? I'd love to hear what you thought and if you agree or disagree with anything I said.
I hope you have a lovely day,
Megan
Sources:
- http://startbloggingonline.com/101-blog-post-ideas-that-make-your-blog-hot/
- http://parentpreviews.com/movie-reviews/film-info/miss-peregrines-home-for-peculiar-children
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