Indeed, it's quite unfortunate in a film where a villainous, gray-haired Jackson allowed to chew the scenery in ghostly pale eyes and a razor-sharp smile is more interesting than the leads.
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There is little of that classic Burtonesque quality or sense of wonderment to be found anywhere, and it's somewhat frustrating watching a house full of endearingly strange children draw a mild curiosity while Butterfield's Jake maddeningly delays the leadership role he obviously was designed for. Only that considering Riggs's imaginative plot and the characters inhabiting this otherwise delightfully kooky fantasy, the story is practically tailor-made for his particular brand and style - or rather, it fits perfectly with his "peculiar" talents. Ultimately, the real problem with 'Miss Peregrine's Home' is that it doesn't feel like a Tim Burton production, which is not say all his films should be limited to gothic atmospheres and dark, somber characters played by Johnny Depp. Jackson), a shapeshifting peculiar who hunts other peculiars, and how time-loops work, we are left feeling exhausted trying to keep up, racing to a climactic battle where everyone's abilities are finally put to beneficial use. This normally wouldn't be a drawback if Jane Goldman's script didn't also feel as though jam-packing a great deal of history and lore into 127 minutes. At the same time, given the amount of changes made to Riggs's original story, Tim Burton and company might have intended this to be a self-contained, standalone feature. Quickly, we learn along with the bewildered boy who may or may not possess a particularity of his own that this world is far more complicated to fit into a single film. Inspired by his grandfather's (Terence Stamp) bedtime tales of the kids at the orphanage and battling monsters, Jake searches for answers to the man's mysterious death.
The possibilities seem limitless for establishing a larger fantasy world based on Ransom Riggs's novel of the same name once Jake (Asa Butterfield) discovers their school in Cairnholm, Wales. There is also the masked twins (Joseph and Thomas Odwell) with a power that basically could have resolved things sooner and avoided a needlessly tacked on battle against the baddies. The other kids are invisible boy Millard (Cameron King), plant-lover Fiona (Georgia Pemberton), beehive Hugh (Milo Parker), prophetic dreamer Horace (Hayden Keeler-Stone) and Claire (Raffiella Chapman), who hides a sharp-toothed mouth beneath thick, blonde locks. Enoch (Finlay MacMillan) is a morbid teen who can reanimate the dead as well as lifeless objects, and Bronwyn Bruntley (Pixie Davies) is an adorable tyke with super strength while the pyrokinetic Olive (Lauren McCrostie) wears flame-retardant gloves for everyone's protection. Emma Bloom (Ella Purnell) wears lead boots to keep her from floating away, leading to a cute scene for her love-interest to pull her along on a rope like a balloon. Problem is they're not of the superhero-making type. Naturally, we have to wonder why these kids need protection, given they supposedly possess talents they could use to their advantage. Rather, she is the deeply caring motherly type protecting the children from harm. But that devilishly sexy smile beneath the puff of smoke from a pipe announces she's not as strict and severe as we're led to believe. Instead, it's run by a stringent headmistress who can transform into a peregrine falcon - hence, her name - and disguised as the exceptionally beautiful Eva Green.
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Perhaps missing from this special school of gifted children is a kindly bald professor on a wheelchair teaching them how to use their talents wisely.
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However, they are not particularly interesting enough to sustain a two hour movie featuring an orphanage for kids with uniquely freakish abnormalities. Granted, the children alluded to in the title are adorably odd, offbeat little nippers, which makes for the occasional amusement and delightfully whimsical visuals.
And not necessarily in a way that makes for wholly enjoyable entertainment. 'Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children' is a strange and curiously exceptional film indeed.
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