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Peter Pan / Re: Peter Pan and Wendy Detailed Review
« on: May 05, 2023, 03:26:00 PM »
So after about two or three years talking about this movie as it was announced and being developed, and seeing the trailers and clips and a featurette, and then finally watching the movie, I’ve finally written my VERY detailed review of Disney+’s Peter Pan and Wendy!
There are still a few things I didn’t mention, because they’re tiny nitpicks that bothered me. Some nitpicks I already just talked about in this review but I’m not going to talk about anymore because this review long enough already!
Needless to say, I wouldn’t recommend this movie to anyone! ESPECIALLY to anyone on this forum!
I would actually recommend the 2003 Peter Pan movie over this one! Because if though that version is very frustrating to watch, at least it’s not as dull as tap water!
But actually, instead of watching the 2003 movie or Peter Pan and Wendy, just the the 2015 Peter and Wendy movie instead!
It’s free to watch on YouTube, and I HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend that every person on this forum watch it! I wish the whole world could watch it! Is this movie perfect? No! But it’s BY FAR the BEST Peter Pan movie ever made!
I’ve posted the link to the movie already in another post, but here it is again:
https://youtu.be/jex5G4xpam8
However, if you would still like to watch it out of curiosity, or if you have already watched it, please leave your thoughts on the forum! Either on this topic or make your own review topic! PLEASE do NOT take my words as gospel! These are all MY OPINIONS! If you have any different thoughts on this movie, please share them, and I will be VERY happy to read them and respond to you!
But even though the actual review is over, I still want to talk about a few things.
First, I don’t think there’s one person to blame for what this movie became! I know I mostly blamed David Lowery in my much shorter review of this movie, but really the only thing I feel he’s directly to blame for is the bad acting! The only performance I actually kind of enjoyed was Jim Gaffigan as Smee. Nothing he said ever made me laugh out loud, but in my mind I thought some of the things he said were entertaining and a tiny bit funny!
But David Lowery is actually a great director! Admittedly, the only films of his I’ve seen are his Disney live-action remakes, Pete’s Dragon and this film, but I’ve seen the trailers for some his other films and they seem great! And people seem to really like his non-Disney films!
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints:
https://youtu.be/L6FhsOYXRAY
A Ghost Story:
https://youtu.be/c_3NMtxeyfk
The Green Knight:
https://youtu.be/sS6ksY8xWCY
But even Pete’s Dragon seemed very well directed! Just look at this scene:
https://youtu.be/FlZ3D7woUjE
That scene is better than the ENTIRETY of Peter Pan and Wendy!
As for the writing, Lowery was the sole writer for those three non-Disney films, so he doesn’t seem to be generally a bad writer at all! Not when he’s given the freedom to follow his vision for a film! As for Peter Pan and Wendy, he actually co-wrote the screenplay with Toby Halbrooks, who also co-wrote Pete’s Dragon with Lowery. I actually reviewed Pete’s Dragon on this forum over two years ago and even though the film has some serious flaws, the film still has some great moments and the movie was just okay overall, which is more than I can say for most of the Disney live-action remakes, including this one! And heck, at least Pete’s Dragon used the original 70’s movie as a blueprint and decided make a new story with a different angle! Again, more than I can say for some of these other remakes, especially most the remakes that made a billion dollars! But those are the only features length films Halbrooks has done screenplays for. The only other screenplay he’s ever written was for a 10-minute short film that he wrote and directed himself. The rest of the feature-length films that he’s been a part of, he’s mostly been a producer, mostly for David Lowery’s films. So is Halbrooks partially to blame for the very very very very bad writing in this movie? Possibly….
But there’s the producer, Jim Whitaker. Whitaker was also the producer for Pete’s Dragon. He also produced some other very bad Disney films like the A Wrinkle in Time movie from 2018 and The Odd Life of Timothy Green. But he also produced another Disney+ film Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made, which is surprisingly a very good movie! So is Whitaker partially to blame for this horribleness? Again, possibly….
I wasn’t there when the drafts of the script were being written, I wasn’t there for any of the products meetings, I wasn’t there when this movie was being filmed, I wasn’t there when this film was edited. So I don’t know if any of these people made any horrible decisions that made this film so terrible!
But I think we all know who’s REALLY to blame for how Peter Pan and Wendy turned out! And that’s Disney!
There are still a few things I didn’t mention, because they’re tiny nitpicks that bothered me. Some nitpicks I already just talked about in this review but I’m not going to talk about anymore because this review long enough already!
Needless to say, I wouldn’t recommend this movie to anyone! ESPECIALLY to anyone on this forum!
I would actually recommend the 2003 Peter Pan movie over this one! Because if though that version is very frustrating to watch, at least it’s not as dull as tap water!
But actually, instead of watching the 2003 movie or Peter Pan and Wendy, just the the 2015 Peter and Wendy movie instead!
It’s free to watch on YouTube, and I HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend that every person on this forum watch it! I wish the whole world could watch it! Is this movie perfect? No! But it’s BY FAR the BEST Peter Pan movie ever made!
I’ve posted the link to the movie already in another post, but here it is again:
https://youtu.be/jex5G4xpam8
However, if you would still like to watch it out of curiosity, or if you have already watched it, please leave your thoughts on the forum! Either on this topic or make your own review topic! PLEASE do NOT take my words as gospel! These are all MY OPINIONS! If you have any different thoughts on this movie, please share them, and I will be VERY happy to read them and respond to you!
But even though the actual review is over, I still want to talk about a few things.
First, I don’t think there’s one person to blame for what this movie became! I know I mostly blamed David Lowery in my much shorter review of this movie, but really the only thing I feel he’s directly to blame for is the bad acting! The only performance I actually kind of enjoyed was Jim Gaffigan as Smee. Nothing he said ever made me laugh out loud, but in my mind I thought some of the things he said were entertaining and a tiny bit funny!
But David Lowery is actually a great director! Admittedly, the only films of his I’ve seen are his Disney live-action remakes, Pete’s Dragon and this film, but I’ve seen the trailers for some his other films and they seem great! And people seem to really like his non-Disney films!
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints:
https://youtu.be/L6FhsOYXRAY
A Ghost Story:
https://youtu.be/c_3NMtxeyfk
The Green Knight:
https://youtu.be/sS6ksY8xWCY
But even Pete’s Dragon seemed very well directed! Just look at this scene:
https://youtu.be/FlZ3D7woUjE
That scene is better than the ENTIRETY of Peter Pan and Wendy!
As for the writing, Lowery was the sole writer for those three non-Disney films, so he doesn’t seem to be generally a bad writer at all! Not when he’s given the freedom to follow his vision for a film! As for Peter Pan and Wendy, he actually co-wrote the screenplay with Toby Halbrooks, who also co-wrote Pete’s Dragon with Lowery. I actually reviewed Pete’s Dragon on this forum over two years ago and even though the film has some serious flaws, the film still has some great moments and the movie was just okay overall, which is more than I can say for most of the Disney live-action remakes, including this one! And heck, at least Pete’s Dragon used the original 70’s movie as a blueprint and decided make a new story with a different angle! Again, more than I can say for some of these other remakes, especially most the remakes that made a billion dollars! But those are the only features length films Halbrooks has done screenplays for. The only other screenplay he’s ever written was for a 10-minute short film that he wrote and directed himself. The rest of the feature-length films that he’s been a part of, he’s mostly been a producer, mostly for David Lowery’s films. So is Halbrooks partially to blame for the very very very very bad writing in this movie? Possibly….
But there’s the producer, Jim Whitaker. Whitaker was also the producer for Pete’s Dragon. He also produced some other very bad Disney films like the A Wrinkle in Time movie from 2018 and The Odd Life of Timothy Green. But he also produced another Disney+ film Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made, which is surprisingly a very good movie! So is Whitaker partially to blame for this horribleness? Again, possibly….
I wasn’t there when the drafts of the script were being written, I wasn’t there for any of the products meetings, I wasn’t there when this movie was being filmed, I wasn’t there when this film was edited. So I don’t know if any of these people made any horrible decisions that made this film so terrible!
But I think we all know who’s REALLY to blame for how Peter Pan and Wendy turned out! And that’s Disney!