Review of Peter Rabbit (2018) by Jack S — 09 Feb 2018

This is a very clever and hilarious movie that I highly recommend to people of all ages. Bob Fitzpatrick and I went to see it tonight, and since we were at the 6:45 show, there were a lot of children in the audience. If you want to laugh with abandon at all the scenes, including the ones that involve butts and vegetable hits to the groin area, try to see it when younger kids will be in the theater so you can hide your own guffaws in their cackling. But even if you don't have the good fortune to see it with a load of children, there is plenty of less embarrassing stuff to laugh about, too.

The plot is inane, but it's a good enough vehicle to provide a ton of great visual jokes. The dialogue is fast and smart, and like the best Disney movies, has the possibility of multiple layers of understanding. Everyone will be laughing, although what's funny about it will differ, even for the same lines sometimes. The live action characters in this do a very entertaining job and the animated characters' voices are perfect. There is quite a bit of good music in this movie, and some really cute dancing by the animated characters. I don't feel I'm doing this fun movie critical justice, so I'll just close this out by urging you to go. It's 95 minutes long and I swear you will leave smiling.