Review of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) by Brandon W — 24 Dec 2016

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is directed by Tim Burton, and it stars Asa Butterfield, Eva Green, and Samuel L. Jackson in a fantasy film about a kid that knows nothing about what's going on, and when something happened to his grandpa, he tells them to go Wales to look for the house, and he manages to do so with fancy kids and a headmistress that takes care of the Peculiars.

I was pretty looking forward to this despite the fact that I've never seen the source material, and I kept hearing about this for years in development. Then all of a sudden it was on DVD which took me by surprise, and decided to rent it, and I really enjoyed it.

The actors are surprisingly great in it from Asa Butterfield and Eva Green, to the other kid actors that weren't annoying. Samuel L. Jackson is having fun as the villain, and the effects look pretty from the production design, to just visual effects.

The style is a bit different from Burton's usuals, but it still has the type of style that you're familiar with in terms of plain weirdness. It has a good story that didn't felt like a typical young adult adaptation film.

It does get very exposition-heavy at times, which is fine in some plot moments, but there's way too many of them, and it gets really irritating, especially when you already know about what are they talking about.

When the main kid goes back to the present day, it gets annoying when you just want him to go back to the peculiar world. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is a great film that I hope they make a sequel as I think it's entertaining enough to deserve one.