Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Official Movie Review 

I don't know why they thought the time-loops were confusing... the movie explains them verbally and actually shows how it works. I watched this against the panel's recommendation and I'm quite glad of it. And it seems they can't even explain what the movie was about, which says they were either lazy or disinterested to begin with since the premise isn't a difficult one.

"Sam Jackson as evil Frederick Douglas" Ok now I'm interested.

There is definitely an underlying melancholy to these characters. They feel like they can't risk falling in love and they're stuck with each other in time while never aging. For the youngest characters it would be tragically unnatural to be say 7 years old for 70 years. Their life is a purgatory knowing inevitably they're going to be hunted by Hollows. Jake should've brought some assault riffles from Florida and rained hell on the Hollows.

How could the kids survive in the present time for so long? In one scene the girl says "after a few minutes in your time, I would die of age"

I liked the movie. I thought parts might be to dark for kids but the kids in theater laughed a lot. The time travel was kind of confusing but the rest of the movie was pretty straight forward. In a nutshell the movie is about monsters hunting children to eat their eyes. The monsters want to eat the eyes because that makes them more human. The kids fight the monsters because they don't their eyes eaten for some odd reason.

Something like this in Guillermo del Toro's hands would have been great, but Tim Burton should have quit after Ed Wood, because he hasn't made a decent film since, let alone one that wasn't an excuse for his bum-chum Johnny Depp to play dress up. Still, it must be tricky not to be able to cast Helena Bonham Carter to over-act in everything he makes now.

Alonso & Christy never understand anything😅 Poor Matt trying 2 keep the some sanity.

I feel like in a lot of instances critics just hide under the same blanket when rendering their judgements, and in doing so manufacture a contrived consensus that typically jars with the experience of the movie-going public. What is wrong with a film that throws a lot at you and leaves you with questions? If we're looking at time travel movies specifically, the logic behind Donnie Darko was all kinds of wonky, to the point where it had a subsidiary website to ham-fistedly fill in the blanks and yet the theatrical cut at least remains a wonderful film. Why? Because films aren't merely about what they tell us, they resound with us ultimately because of how they make us feel. Like a lot of the comments I've read here, I found a lot to like about this film. In particular the sensitive and deft way Jane Goldman's screenplay dealt with a lot of difficult subjects that affect many young people, like bereavement, mental illness, feeling socially ostracised and not being able to see your purpose or place; whilst ultimately reinforcing the point that despite perceived flaws all young people have value as well as potentials frequently hidden from others as well as themselves. I think its also important to note that screenplays only hit their weight when they're performed well and I thoroughly think this was the case with this film. I couldn't point to a weak performance amongst the younger actors. Asa Butterfield was a likeable protagonist avoiding the pitfalls of coming across as either sulky or bratty. And I don't understand the criticism of Samuel L. Jackson either, which seems more and more like a fashion amongst beard-stroking navel-gazing critics, to my mind he was appropriately creepy and menacing. Also whilst the roles of Eva Green, Judi Dench and Terence Stamp were small, they were all affecting and memorable, each bringing a gravity that only actors of their stature could, making their performances more than the some of their parts. The only actor I struggled with was Chris O'Dowd arising from my own prejudice of being an 'IT Crowd' fan and not being able to disassociate him from 'Roy'. But that's just trivial.

As a non critical movie goer i''m just like what are they talking about?! I loved it! Damn critics being critical lmao

People are just looking for something to say if they're like "I didn't understand" It's not that hard to comprehend

This movie was spectacular and my daughter and I loved it, saw it today. Then again, these guys loved Pete's Dragon, so there you have it.

At least there's no Depp in it. That's something.

0:20 Christie should seriously invite her son to the show one day. She always talks about his opinions and they end up being helpful in understanding a child's perspective on a movie.

This movie looks interesting to me. And more Alonso and Christy talked bad about it, the more it sounds like a good movie.

they changed Emma's and olives powers around like come on what the flick!?

Tim Burton had to condense three books into one movie... Considering that, I found it enjoyable.

What was the last best Tim Burton movie? Frankenweenie? The last best live action movie?

you didn't like Kubo and the two strings and I loved it so I will take your reviews with a grain of salt.

I enjoyed it, definitely not a great movie but still good. When I watched it, I kept remarking about creepy it was, then I realized the only word to describe the movie was peculiar. Samuel L. Jackson had me cracking me up, and I enjoyed Jake and Miss Peregrine. I really doubt this is what they were aiming for, but one of the skeletons looked like one of the skeletons on the cover of the Goosebumps book Say Cheese and Die Again

How many Sam Jackson films are there a year? Does he EVER pass on a film?

I thought it was a good movie, but only an okay adaption from book to movie. I see what they mean by the story is all over the place. If you hadn't read the book you would have absolutely no idea what's going on. The book does a lot better job at world building.

Ed Wood is by far BEST!!!

i was intrigued until a commercial suggested this movie is Harry Potter meets X-Men

I am a Big Fantasy Fan and this gave me exactly what I wanted, I would give this movie a 7/10

Tim Burton´s X-men meets harry potter?

Matt is dressed like he's playing shuffleboard on a carnival cruise.

I love Eva Green, she needs to be in more films lol. She seems to be in a bunch of mediocre stuff and then Casino Royal which was great. Tim Burton is well past his prime, like John Carpenter in the 90s. This is like Escape from LA after having made The Thing.

Victorian xmen?

Every review has basically been that you get a boring extended Act 1 trying to cram exposition in while hitting YA movie tropes, basically no Act 2 to set the stakes - it having been cannibalized by Act 1, then a great 'classic Burton' Act 3 that left people wishing the whole movie could just be like that.

I totally agree. What a snooze...

This is another example of Tim Burton being given a great story to work with to end with him disregarding the source material to just make his own mediocre story.

I thoroughly enjoyed this film :)!!!! IT WAS A FUN FANTASY FILM :)!!!!

I personally was not bored with it.

The major faults in this movie could probably be blamed on the novel. At the same time, a good adaptation should produce a good movie.

Maybe visit Wales before you call it dreary, Christy.

Miss Peregrine = sexy British Professor X

I've only seen a few episodes of this but seems like this panel never like any movie they review

This should have been a build up movie for a wonderful trilogy. instead burton BURTONIZED it and botched it so bad it wasnt even close to the book. fucking sucks

time time story that makes sense-steins;gate, is a good example

It's one thing to critique a movie but to say "don't see this"' is just pompous. It still isn't the same as watching a movie and determining what one thinks of it.

Burton hasn't made a decent movie since Sweeney Todd

They don't like it. Means: I gotta see it!

Its a shame because the books were SO good!

Tim makes good movies. Critics have been spoiled. I can't wait to see the 10 out of 10s they give LA LA LAND. Early prediction. Let's just say they are a little bit predictable. Matt being the exception.

i read the all 3 books and i give the movie a 9 and i love the movie i don't love all of the changes and i think more people should read the book then watch the movie,hated your review of the movie,miss.avocet is my favorite and judi dench did a great job on that character

peregine is my fav

I actually really liked this movie :(

Let's be honest for a moment, Tim Burton movies haven't been good in a long time - aside from Alice in Wonderland, what was kind of divided among fans. When I heard he was getting this movie, I shook my head and said, that's another potential franchise that's about to be killed.

Ed Woods might be one of the most overrated movies I've ever seen.

"Eyeball eating"? well, I'm out

props to you Matt, you've lost some weight fella.

Its my new fave movie.

I loved it.

ok I don't know,anything about this movie but I'm really getting sick of British magical children movies..... can we take a break for a little bit

No more movies about time loops please.

Movie was so flat and incomparable to the book.... Second half was an entirely different story than the book, and the characters had so much more depth and Character in the book.... What a shame.

S.T.A.R.S.!!!

Might be time for Burton to retire as a director...

They didn't do much research on the story. Usually Christie reads the books. I thought it was pretty good. I don't like Asa Butterfield. I don't like Emma's character change. Or how they wrote his best friend out but everything else was good. If they read the books, they would appreciate it. Not everyone does though.

DO NOT LISTEN TO THESE THREE. This will be one of those movies you'll catch at home and kick yourself for not seeing it in theaters.

At least it has an engaging story unlike some fantasy movies these days. (Malefecient)

This movie seems as much fun as a root canal. Tim Burton needs to stop trying to be such a freak. We get it, you're weird. Move on.

Hmm Tim Burton overrated?

Critics review a movie and bash parts of the book without reading the book.

This looks dumb

This is a fucking *awful* film. It carries none of the genuine edginess or cultural relevancy of The X-Men. Instead it trades one hundred percent on its supposed 'cool nerd' pedigree and all the 'whimsical' cod-Britishness that was left on the edit suite floor after Deathly Hallows finished cutting... Bert the Chimney Sweep was a less insulting stereotype than this bullshit. Boring, unbearably pretentious and *very* derivative. Avoid.

This movie sucked.

those twin characters looks pretty cool. other than that, not interested.