But this film does not have an X in its name
They still need a home, one hidden from sight
But all will change on this all Hallows night
A boy in grieving, another cliché
His adventures will help him find his way
We enter the house of Mrs Peregrine
It’s a peculiar night on a Strange Halloween
My, does this feel like a Rage Issues
callback. Quite a lot of familiar faces in this one, and a few that will become
familiar faces soon enough. Mrs Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children was
based on a book (I feel like we’re starting adaptation month 2 weeks early) by
Ransom Biggs. Adapting it to screenplay is Jane Goldman, who has worked on
several projects covered through Rage4Media, including X-man First Class and
Days of Future Past (aka the good ones) and the Kingsman movies.
Bruno Delbonnel is the cinematographer and
did the same for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and The Darkest Hour.
And in the directors chair we have Tim Burton, who you might remember from my
early Batman reviews. I’m still not a major fan of Burton’s work, his unique
visual style needs suitable projects and they’re not always the projects he
ends up doing. I’ll come back to this in my eventual Dumbo review. Either way
though, I do credit him for helping revitalise Batman’s image in the 80’s and
several of his more independent projects are enjoyable.
Still, the film ended up doing decently,
earning just shy of $300m at the Box Office on its $110m budget, although it
had a mixed response critically with a 64% Rotten Tomatoes Critic Rating and a
60% audience rating with average scores of 5.93/10 and 3.49/5 respectively.
Let’s take a look and see where things go.
