Barrie, is perhaps one of the most highly adapted children’s stories of all time.
Peter Pan, or Peter Pan: The Boy Who Would Never Grow Up(1904) by J. Purchases you make through our links may earn us a commission. Note: At Harkins Camelview at Fashion Square.- Recommendations are independently chosen by Reviewed’s editors. Rating: Rated PG-13 for brief violent/bloody images. 'Wendy,' 3 starsĬast: Devin France, Yashua Mack, Gage Naquin and Gavin Naquin. "Wendy" is not glossy by any means but it feels like an escape from the soulless live-action Disney remakes audiences have become accustomed to. He brings out the best in his young performers, who look like they're actually having fun in their rough-and-tumble misadventures. Zeitlin's decidedly un-Disney retelling is full of abstract notions of childhood and imagination. That's a line that is certain to become someone's Instagram caption soon enough.
But some, the wild ones, the ones with a light in their eye, escape," she says. Wendy, however, opines about childhood and growing up in voiceovers that are emotional, but at times come across as befitting a remarkable Hallmark ad. The more poetic and melodramatic the film gets, the more it veers off course. At times, Peter comes across as an antagonistic cult leader by goading others into believing in the impossible. She's allowed to play and go wild just like her rambunctious brothers.Īs indicated by the title, Wendy is the focus of the film as Peter and his troupe of runaways take a backseat. The observant and wise Wendy, at least, isn't relegated to a maternal role in the group nor acts as a love interest for Peter. With so many differences, the inclusion of an unexpected and new-fangled Captain Hook origin story is fascinating. Instead, there's a capsized fisherman's boat doubling as a pirate's ship, a looming volcano billowing smoke and a rag-tag bunch of kids running wild in the jungle. There's no Tiger Lily, jealous mermaids or a ravenous crocodile swimming about. Peter insists that the Darlings will never grow up as long as they think happy thoughts and believe in "Mother" - an oddly developed mish-mash of a creature that seemingly substitutes for Tinker Bell in this picture. Whatever lightness they once possessed is dead, leaving them unimaginative and uninspired drones. Beyond its fecund landscape and warm beaches lies a desert where Lost Boys - the truly lost ones - go to waste away. This Neverland is far from paradise, though. Children, no matter what age, carry the dreams of their parents, and Wendy's costume is a worn-out hand-me-down rodeo T-shirt.īored with their hum-drum life, Wendy (Devin France) and her twin brothers (Gage and Gavin Naquin) jump onto a moving train where they encounter the magnetic Peter (Yashua Mack), who insists on taking them to the far-off island he calls home. No matter how much they dream of going somewhere else, they'll soon grow up and those lofty goals will deflate - just like those of Mama Darling, who aspired to compete in the rodeo.
From childhood, they're told that the only thing they can truly expect out of life is to mop the floors and clear the tables in this depot. It's clear from the beginning why the kids who call its rusted husk home would want to escape. Zeitlin swaps the Darlings' Edwardian London flat for a ramshackle diner in some unnamed rural drive-through. Barrie's "Peter Pan" lets its heroine tell the classic story through a poetic and nostalgic lens.Īt times a grim glimpse at the reality of fleeting youth, Zeitlin's film is a beautiful departure from the tenants of Barrie's original bedtime story and Disney's commodified cartoon.
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