by Jonathan Klotz
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after twilight and Hunger Games Turning young adult novels into blockbuster franchises, Hollywood studios moved quickly to secure the rights to anything that could become a hit. That's how Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, released in 2011, was turned into a Tim Burton film by 2016, an impressive transformation of a young adult gothic adventure. This film fits perfectly with Burton's quirky artistic vision, and is now, inexplicably, in the top 10 streaming movies on the internet.
A hidden, timeless world
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Throwing aside the cliched post-apocalyptic YA setting, there's a romance, but that's not the point of the movie; Instead, it's a classic cinematic adventure with a young boy, Jacob (Asa Butterfield), discovering a hidden world. In this case, he follows in his grandfather's footsteps when he arrives at a ruined house on a British island and discovers that the house and all its strange inhabitants are still alive, thanks to a time bubble that brought them back to life on September 3. 1943. The house is a haven for gifted children with strange abilities, under the supervision of Miss Peregrine (Peculiars).Penny appalling Eva Green), who can transform into a bird, you'll never be able to guess what kind and manipulate time.
Jacob meets special children, including Emma (repercussions Ella Purnell, who can manipulate the air but must wear heavy boots or float away, Enoch, the scary boy who can resurrect the dead, Olive, the fiery ginger, Bronwyn, a little girl with superhuman strength, and Millard, the invisible boy. As expected, it turns out that Jacob is also an outsider, with a very specific power of being able to see invisible monsters, the Hollows, who want to eat the Peculiars to regain their lost human forms. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children It tells a strange story, 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 Full of creative designs and amazing performances, but no one has more fun in the movie than him Samuel L. Jackson Like Barron, the variable that drives the search for the special. It's impressive how Jackson manages to overact in a Tim Burton movie, but it works. Each character is essentially a rough sketch with one or two distinct traits as the film devotes its running time to exploring the strange, gothic world hidden in time bubbles rather than delving into the trauma and psychological damage of children hiding from a world that hates and fears them. they.
Unlike Burton's two previous films, Big eyesAnd after, Dumbo, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children It was a hit. It is not enough to complete the amendment of the second book, Al-Jawf cityto be greenlit, but with a respectable $295 million against a budget of $110 million. Critical consensus of 64 percent is new Rotten tomatoes The film knocks for being a case of style over substance, but fans might argue that this is actually a point in the film's favor.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children It began to drift away from the public consciousness as soon as it was released. That's why it's surprising to see that the film has proven popular enough Top To occupy the top ten places alongside Burton's most recent films, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. It's not a perfect film, but for fans of Burton and gothic B-movie adventures, it's still one of the best.
