Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children movie review

Movie reviewer’s note: This review is not endorsed by the local movie distributor. It is reviewed without the influence of the publicist. I spent to watch this movie on the first day. What I am about to say is not sugar coated to compliment the movie but to be critical.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is an adaptation of a young adult book series of the same name written by American author Ransom Riggs for Quirk Books. My review will be based on a movie patron’s perspective and not as a reader even though I haven’t read it. It will also be good because it may not compliment the movie like any other adaptation.

First, the story. It gave a good start to introduce the origin and the characters. But it can also be dragging or boring until the action sequences. Even though it is for young adults, it can be also classified as horror literature.

Speaking of horror, some creatures here are based on urban legend. Like the floating girl and the slender man. Miss Peregrine is played by Eva Green and she did very well to act matronly and she still looks hot whatever role she plays.

The peculiarity of the children is also compared to being mutants. But it also has mystical elements like other creatures like the Wights and the manipulation of time which makes it unique. Tim Burton is also the best choice to make this literary world come to life.

20^th Century Fox bought many titles to life like Percy Jackson and The Chronicles of Narnia. But after adapting these books to life, they are discontinued because they took long to follow up with a sequel that ended up the teen or child actors to outgrow their characters. Perhaps, it can only work with The Maze Runner which I hope it will continue as well.

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