The film follows Jake Portman (played by an uninspired Asa Butterfield), a regular Joe Teenager living in suburban Florida with his awful parents and working a glum supermarket job. But perhaps most lacking in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is something the best children’s movies always have-a genuine emotional center. Part of that is because of the sheer amount of magical logic and backstory there is to explain, and the film’s wildly veering tone and pace. The result is 124 minutes worth of CGI-embellished, time-traveling adventure that’s ambitious in scope and exasperating in execution. The director seems completely at home telling a story about a an enchanted wartime children’s orphanage, terrifying invisible monsters, and waif-like youths with giant eyes. Given all the eerie fantasy elements at work, it’s little surprise then that Tim Burton was tasked with directing the film adaptation of Ransom Riggs’s first Miss Peregrine book. But on the other, it made a lot of sense: Miss Peregrine is at its heart a dark, Gothic-tinged story about an ordinary boy discovering an extraordinary dimension to his life, one that whisks him away to a marvelous new world populated with marvelous inhabitants. On the one hand, many popular young-adult books get compared to one of those series at some point. It's a film that truly earns your 3D money in spades.Not long after the novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children was published in 2011, it started drawing comparisons to Harry Potter and Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Whether you love the film or not, at the very least your eyes will be treated to a spectacle that is truly outstanding. No such moments populate Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, and this is a film where stop-motion skeletons do battle with CGI beasties of another realm.īesides a minor gripe with the brightness factor of the film's 3D presentation, every other portion of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children impresses behind those trademark black glasses. There's a lot of action throughout Tim Burton's latest film, and when a 3D film contains a lot of action, there's plenty of potential to dizzy your audience with moments that cause the eyes to wonk out. This one of the visually deepest 3D films I've seen this year. Even moments where a typical third-dimensionally enhanced presentation would have a character anchoring the scene with no blur at all are enhanced with a minute level of blurriness. There's not only a lot of blur in the 3D effects to Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, those effects are consistently blurry throughout the film. Keep in mind, your mileage may vary with this factor, as your local theater may or may not have their 3D projection system properly calibrated. There's definitely a noticeably dim quality between the film's presentation without the glasses and with them on, but it's not so distracting that it takes you out of the film. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a film that's at home with a lot of muted tones, with gray and blue dominating the color palette of the film. Nowhere is this more readily apparent than in scenes with environmental effects like rain, water, and snow, as their eye-popping nature helps separate the backdrops to various scenes in the film. Not so with Miss Peregrine, as the distance between characters and their environments, as well as each other, are clearly delineated. Spatial reasoning is something that can make or break a 3D film, as flat backgrounds or characters can lead to a rather lifeless looking picture.
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