Purely Joyful Movie!

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

The only sense of wonder Pan invokes is who to blame for this spectacular pig's breakfast of a film. Screenwriter Jason Fuchs seems to have no sense at all of visual storytelling. Everyone speaks in expository dialogue from the off, and does not let up to the credits. The kids find the treasure trove, and so say "It's the treasure trove." Then they find the records and so say, "It's the records." Did Fuchs think he was writing a radio play? Why did Wright straitjacket his cast with these stiff exchanges? The film touches on Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars, The Matrix, shamelessly cannibalizing parts from other successful adventures and insultingly thinking we won't notice. The boy playing Pan looks good but acts so wooden he blends into the ship. Everyone else is flat, though the clunky dialogue gives them very little option for nuance. Wright opts for a big blancmange of colour, song and CGI, but it's a mix that falls dreadfully flat. I came to this with low expectations - the only surprise was that it is even worse than the bad reviews imply.

This could have been such a great film. I loved the introduction of Hook as a sympathetic character. The special effects, such as the birds and fights between aircraft and pirate ships are genius but Hugh Jackman and Rooney Mara are totally wasted on the belittling scripts designed completely for 3 - 4 year old children without any larger intelligence. The film and the script patronizes all involved. Come On! We've had Pirates of the Caribbean. Children are cleverer than we think and they like to be treated like adults. Really disappointed because wider thinking could have made this film bad-ass! It's a good premise but ends up being a good film only for people who don't like to think too much......... For instance, J.M. Barrie only published following the first world war and died in 1937 rather than living through the second world war (when this film is set). Hugh Jackman works with a dreadful script and a character who can't decide if he's the most evil man in the world or just a big softie at heart. This leaves an uncomfortable ill-defined pastiche of a personality. Hugh Jackman obviously just didn't have the confidence to push back against the director or script editors to decide what they wanted! It's a shame. I wanted this film to be good but ended up being really disappointed

The one liners fall flat, The special effects look as if they were generated on 90's software. Blackbeard and his crew sing 'smells like teen spirit', Garret Hedlund as a young James Hook is more like a young Indiana Jones wannabe and the Injuns look like they hail from somewhere in the Star Wars universe. If you saw a Peter Pan origin story in which all of this was the case, would you recommend it to your friends? Didn't think so. There is no way that Pan wasn't going to flop. Too bland for children and too tacky for everyone else, this largely unmotivated tale doesn't even get off the ground.

If you actually go and google Peter Pan, there are all these pictures of a boy with a fancy hat FLYING around. This is how everyone sees him, this is how everyone pictures him.However in this film, despite the fact that the audience knows and accepts that Peter Pan has the power to fly.... he is now allowed to, because the directors decided so.So the movie spends countless hours rotating, twisting and boring the story with clichés just to reach the final conclusion that Peter Pan indeed does fly.Overall the SFX and EFX are really good but story line really 1/10.