![]() ![]() Peter Pan comes across as a pest, and when Wendy belts the movie’s thesis - “This magic belongs to no boy!” - it hits the ear like a distracting clang. Once, they were just a boy and a girl who bonded over comic books and fell in love unexpectedly. ![]() Through scandal after scandal, addiction on top of addiction, a flurry of paparazzi hunt him as he fights to conquer his demons. Still, these well-meaning choices struggle to cohere into a satisfying picture. He's a troubled young actor, Hollywood's newest heartthrob, struggling with fame as the star of the latest superhero franchise. He and the cinematographer Bojan Bazelli pay it tribute with their use of moody skies, striking shadows, unexpected camera angles and a darkly beautiful color palette that shimmers like jewels in a cave. ![]() Lowery clearly adores the look of the cartoon. The fairy is now merely given a camera trick - Tinkervision - a blurred, jittery point of view that has its best moment when she flies through blood spatter. Anils Ghost - Michael Ondaatje (1) Animal Ark Series - Lucy Daniels (2). The girl-powering of the plot means scrapping the catty mermaids, the glimmer of a love triangle with Tiger Lily (here played by Cree actress Alyssa Wapanatahk) and pretty much everything interesting that Tinkerbell (Yara Shahidi) once got to do, including her multiple attempts to murder Wendy. In addition to including a traumatic back story for Captain Hook, they add two lovely reveries on aging: a montage in which Wendy savors her youth and another where she’s tantalized by the prospect of growing up. ![]() Having stripped out the questionable or merely dubious themes, he and his co-writer, Toby Halbrooks, are left with many minutes to fill. ![]()
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