Review of Peter Rabbit (2018) by Dawdlingpoet — 28 Nov 2021

This is a fairly entertaining and watchable film. Its of course a family friendly film, with cute rabbits - not quite the dark Watership Down film of the 1970s but that's to be expected. I'd heard there are some jokes aimed perhaps more at adults - I picked up on themes of the negativity of greed but not too much otherwise.

Its a bit of a laugh but to me it seemed pretty forgettable fare. The performances were a bit hammy too but I wouldn't say its a really bad film. Its distinctly ok, in my book. I wouldn't go out of your way to see it but there are worse films around and I know about the whole controversy over the mention of an eating intolerance/allergy and I can understand why making light of it may seem very insensitive - I'm not sure, dialogue wise, it was perhaps thought about enough, the impact of that but I doubt (hopefully) that particularly young kids would necessarily pick up on it.

I could be wrong though. That aside, its a cheesy but fun film with some fairly decent effects, of course including CGI, although I wouldn't go out of your way to see it. Oh and for anyone watching, we're into December and I had heard good things about this film, so I felt I suppose I better start to watch a family film or two in this festive season, som there you go! we'll see how many I get through.