Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Trailer
This is a spooky, almost horror movie, as the old photos in the opening credits give me chills. When I sees the children with the masks, I think of 20th Century Boys (2008).
The premise of the story is that Miss Peregrine runs a "school" for peculiar children. The protagonist Jake's grandparent was part of the orphanage. And he told stories about the school to Jake when he was small. Jake would not believe until he finally meets Miss Peregrine and the children. Sounds a lot like Tim Burton's another movie called Big Fish (2003), where the dad tells tall tales and they turn out to be true.
The plot is average as the story is built up slowly but the ending ends too abruptly. I expect to see more of how Jake goes back to 1945.
Some think that the peculiar children are just like students in Xavier's School in X-men. I remember some people said that Elsa in Frozen is about outcast too. Elsa has special abilities that other people are afraid of her.
Eva Green played Miss Peregrine. Her make-up is awesome. She plays a similar Gothic spooky character called Vanessa Ives in Penny Dreadful.
Jake is a boring character as he does not do much in the movie. He miss the bow all the time. I somehow think this British actor looks and sounds like Ewan McGregor.
Enoch's playing-with-the-dead toys resembles the scary Baby Face toy in Toy Story (1995).
The many birds in the movie reminds me of The Birds (1963), which is a horror movie, by Alfred Hitchcock.
On the other hand, "the hollows" makes me think of the movie title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, which is also a fantasy genre movie.
The gas masks worn by the characters remind me of Doctor Who Series 1 Episode 9 The Empty Child, where the story is also located in the U.K. during World War II. The episode is very scary as well.
Never has a movie that can be linked to so many other movies. Yet I still find the premise, plot and character interesting.
In my opinion, one of the message the movie wants to bring out is: is living forever is good?
By the way, I love the trailer song New World Coming by Dísa very much. It's the trailer song that attracts me to the cinema. Bravo to the trailer! But I'm surprised (not the first time though) that the trailer song is not in the movie!
Recommendation: Recommended
Premise: Excellent
Plot: Average
Characters: Excellent
Dialogue: Good
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