Member review

Ok, so this film film is a peculiar film (as it says in the title!) and it seems to have a lot of amazing characters and a great storyline. This is a film where the main character, Jake (played by Asa Butterfield) goes to Wales to find a ‘home for peculiar children,’ run by Miss Peregrine. He gets to this home by going through a ‘time loop’ which is a place you can go and it makes you go back in time and stay there until you exit the loop. In this loop, he meets many other characters, all of which have peculiar powers. Miss Peregrine herself can turn into a bird, and all of the others have powers like that. I love the storyline to this, however some parts did tend to drag on more than they needed to and I think that Tim Burton could have made some parts shorter (or longer) than they were. I also love the characters and their peculiar powers, however, I’m going to be honest, Asa did a very bad American accent, but besides that, some characters deserved a lot more screen time than they had. Something I liked was the fact that the Holos (i don’t know if that us spelled right) took out the eyes of their victims, however the CGI was a bit bad. I enjoyed how the lighting and sounds reflected the mood of each scene, along with the scenery fitting the mood. I also think that this could have been a series rather than a film because viewers new and old would enjoy it more because the characters would get more screen time and Tim Burton would have actually be able to read out the times and it wouldn’t make the good bits have less time. All together, I really enjoyed this film, but there are multiple things I would have changed, and this film does not really compare to other Tim Burton films.