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After Dusk and The Hunger Games turned young adult novels into blockbusters, Hollywood studios were quick to lock up the rights to anything that might become a hit. Thus, Miss Peregrine’s book for Peculiar Children, published in 2011, was turned into a Tim Burton film by 2016, an impressive twist on a gothic adventure for young adults. An underrated film perfectly suited to Burton’s strange artistic vision is now inexplicably in Max’s top 10 streaming.
A hidden world without time
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children it ditches the post-apocalypse YA cliches and there’s romance, but that’s not the point of the movie; instead, it’s a classic movie adventure with a little boy, Jacob (Asa Butterfield), who discovers a hidden world. In this case, he follows in his grandfather’s footsteps when he reaches a ruined house on a British island and discovers that the house and all its quirky inhabitants are still alive, thanks to a time bubble that made them relive September 3, 1943. The home is a refuge for Peculiars, gifted children with strange abilities, under the supervision of Miss Peregrine (Penny Dreadful Eva Green) who can turn into a bird and you’ll never guess what type and manipulate time.
Jacob meets some strange children, including Emma (Fallout’s Ella Purnell), who can manipulate air but must wear heavy boots or float away, Enoch, a ghostly boy who can raise the dead, Olive, a ginger pyrokinetic, Bronwyn, a little girl with superhuman strength, and Millard, an invisible boy. As expected, Jacob is also revealed to be a Peculiar, with a very specific ability to see invisible monsters, The Hollows, who want to absorb the Peculiars to regain their lost human forms. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children it tells a strange story and plays with familiar tropes, but it’s also one of Tim Burton’s best films in years.
Tim Burton’s return to form
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is full of creative designs and stage-chewing performances, but no one has more fun in the film than Samuel L. Jackson as Barron, the shapeshifter leading the hunt for the Peculiars. It’s impressive how much Jackson manages to exaggerate in a Tim Burton film, but it works. Each character is essentially a rough sketch with one or two defining traits, as the film spends its time exploring a strange gothic world hidden in time bubbles rather than dealing with the trauma and psychological damage of children hiding from a world they hate and fear. them.
Unlike the two Burton films that came out earlier, Big eyesand then, Dumbo, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children was a hit. Not enough for a sequel adapting the second book, Hollow cityto be green, but a respectable $295 million against a $110 million budget. The critical consensus of 64 percent is fresh Rotten tomatoes knocks the film for being more about style than substance, but fans would argue that this is actually a point in the film’s favor.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children began to recede from the public consciousness almost as soon as it was published. Therefore, it is surprising to see that the film is proving to be popular enough Max crack the top 10 alongside Burton’s latest film, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. It’s not a perfect film, but for fans of Burton and old-school B-movie gothic adventures, it’s still one of the best.
