Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a fantasy film directed by Tim Burton, based on the book of the same name about an American teenager who finds a children's home in Wales filled with peculiar children.
I like Tim Burton. I've seen most of his films and I always enjoy his distinctive style. It definitely works with this film. Miss Peregrine is not his finest film but he certainly worked hard to make it look great.
I have read the first two books and enjoyed reading them. I was fine with Burton and screenwriter Jane Goldman changing the ages and powers of some of the characters. However, they completely changed the ending and I really didn't like it. There are some adaptions where a change to the ending will be an improvement. But the end was completely changed and made it much worse. The antagonists, The Hollows, are shown to be terrifying and hard to kill throughout most of the film. They are then made a mockery of at the end and are shown as foolish in a bright and colourful sequence with techno fairground music playing. It feels completely out of place with the rest of the film and makes it too cheery.
The main actors all do well in their roles, even if Samuel L. Jackson didn't realise he was no longer working on Kingsman (nothing against him, but he plays them both the same). There is a twist involving a character that is handled poorly, and I would have preferred if they had it in a similar way as to how it plays out in the book (I realise the book and the film are separate but it's hard not to compare them).
The beginning and middle of the film I enjoyed. There many good moments between the characters and there are some interesting ideas. It's a shame the ending overpowers that tough.
In Short: I like the director, I like the cast, I like the book, but I don't like the film.
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