Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is directed by Tim Burton and based off of a novel adapted by Jane Goldman who is also Matthew Vaughn's writing partner the story here concerns Jake (Asa Butterfield) going through the death of his grandpa (Terence Stamp) but throughout his childhood and before his grandpa died he learned of a special school for children considered peculiar led by the mysterious Miss Peregrine (Eva Green.)
I wanted to see this film for 2 reasons primarily: Jane Goldman and Eva Green, Goldman is a great screenwriter who wrote Stardust and Kingsman the Secret Service with Vaughn and Green is pretty much one of the sexiest women on the planet as well as a vastly underrated actress, it gave me hope that both of them could help put Burton's career back on track after several misfires since the late 90s.
And very happily I can say that they do just that as this is the most fun I've had with a Burton film since probably Mars Attacks back in 1996 Goldman's script combines fun and creepiness really well and has a pretty decent story behind it as well that I found myself really getting behind and it has certainly given me hope that with a strong right hand as his screenwriter Burton can stay on the straight and narrow as recently he's indulged his kooky sensibilities and it's been a disaster all around but Nic Refn, Zack Snyder and Sir RIdley Scott have also been rather guilty of this in their careers.
As for the performances, Green puts her beautiful speaking voice to use and I never found myself bored when watching her on film, Samuel L Jackson was a pretty neat villain which is rather important for me while Dame Judi Dench has a very nice role albeit a small one and the visual effects for the most part are actually pretty good and also when Stamp was on screen I thought that it was sure nice to see him again and also wanting to kneel before him when his scenes were on.
Unfortunately Jake the main character does tend to be a bit of a wet blanket throughout most of this movie constantly asking questions about anything and everything and after a while I was starting to get bored with him but he redeems himself in the climax so it wasn't too bad.
And so that was Miss Peregrine a very nice surprise all around and it's well worth seeing, 3 out of 5.
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