Tim burton’s ungdomseventyr borrows from the giants, but have a small leg to stand on.
ADVENTURE. The united STATES. 12 years of age. Director: Tim Burton. With: Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Chris O’Dowd, Terence Stamp and Samuel L. Jackson
What happens if you mix Harry Potter, “X-men”, a bit of Spanish fantasy-horror and a drop of “A new day threatens”
Yes. You are left with Tim burton’s perhaps the most vivid film in 13 years – true enough if you only relate to the first hour.
16-year-old Jake (Asa Butterfield) is an outsider. His lazy butikkjobb in Florida is uninspiring, the parents are present, but totally absent and his recently deceased grandfather and best friend (Terence Stamp) has rista in the boy’s perception of reality with nattahistorier about children with magical abilities versus the invisible monsters with tentacles like tongues.
the Psychologist gives the young man a reiseresept to the place bestis bablet, a small island off Wales. Jake gets his fugletittende fjott of a father (Chris O'Dowd) and an expectation to confront their delusions. But it turns out, of course, that grandfather was absolutely right.
Tim Burton translates the Ransom Riggs fantasy novel to lerettet through beautiful photos, mennskelig heat, and samples of already popular filmfranchiser. And the merry stjelingen is the reason that the film’s first hour is so damned funny.
One can almost hear the film reel to be cut up by burton’s blender.
It is easy to let the charm of Miss Peregrine and her mutantunger, which really is X-men seen through Guillermo Del Toro’s black eyes, with references to both “Pan’s Labyrinth” and “El orfanato”. The classic “lost son inherits patriarkens heltejobb”-frame, we know the good from the “Harry Potter”, “Star Wars” and “Kingsman: The Secret Service”.
“SPECIAL CHILD”: To see the children out in the “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children”.
Photo: 20Th Century Fox
And in the spirit of the latter (and also another Marvel-link) played the villain of Samuel L. Jackson, who channels a “Roger Rabbit”edition of Mr. Glass, the role he himself played in his best superheltfilm, “Unbreakable” (2001).
Jackson and his friends are not near as awe-inspiring as Burton adds up to. It is probably a little bit of “origin story”-the curse, that the film’s first half is so keen to establish the universe that the last part with urgency through the cumbersome teaspoon-story and a noisy action.
But Burton really does go on your face in the last half of the movie that could have been his best in 20 years.
He goes from the elegant curating in the first, to serve a soup of gratuitous action and washed filmtroper in the next. The hero’s journey from insecure bystander to the “I have a plan”mode comes as lightning from a clear sky, while skurkenes the level of difficulty is about right over the “desperate wasp in september”.
The antiklimakset comes in the nagging struggle between the clumsy tentakkelmonstrene and a skjellettarmé over noisy tivoli-EDM. Burton has the ability to both honor and urinate on the stop motion king Ray Harryhausens heritage about each other.
It is really a pity to throw away such a relatively small universe of so little action.
SANDEEP SINGH
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