I am going to start off with saying just why?…why Warner Brothers?…why did u make this film?….it was a bizzare baffling dull film….and thats something to not take lightly…..I mean first off where do I even begin…first 15 min focuses on Peter in an orphanage with an abusive strict nun…just why?…then the next 15 after that he gets kidnapped by pirates and taken to Nederland….now see when we first got introduced to Nederland in the Peter pan movie…it was magical…I was hoping for something like that ….but what we get is mind boggling bizzare…..I kid u not they enter into a big hole being mined by slave children….and here we get introduced to our main villian…Black Beard (played by Hugh Jackman…why u may ask? I don’t know…that was just a strange casting choice)…and guess what our introduction to the main bad guy is….I kid u not its of him and his slaves singing Nirvana smells like teen spirit……….I wish I was kidding…..I sat there in my seat…just baffled….BTW I know I’m late on this film…this came out in 2015…but I recently rewatched it…forgot I even owned this film…heck I even forgot about seeing this in theaters 6 years ago….BTW I recommend u check out these 2 links im about to send….first one is of a guy named Jeremy Jahns….he is a funny reviewer and well he does a good job at describing the way James Hook sounds like in this film….second link is to another movie critic named Chris Stuckmann….he again does a greatd job describing the way James Hook sounds like in this film…its hard for me to describe because u would physically have to hear it but since this is a written review…thats not possible…so here’s the links…..also this film takes place during world War II…and black beard is singing nirvana smells like teen spirit….when that song didn’t come out then…again I was sitting in my seat with my mouth open in confusion and well baffled….
Jeremy Jahns Pan review
Chris Stuckmanns Pan review
And this is a 20 movie review that shows the film…basically 20 min of a guy talking the film and pointing out problems…do check it out…enjoy
Should warn u guys those 3 videos might have just some offensive words…I say my because some people have different opinions….and of course some cussing…not much but if u can’t stand that then cool…but if u can then cool.
Also heres the scene of black beard when we first see him…BTW its just…huh?…yeah u heard the song right….Black beard is singing nirvana smells like teen spirit…..why!?…just why…this was a bizzare choice…oh and not so later on they start singing the Ramones Blitzkrieg bop…..why u may ask?…because script says so…again another weird out of place song….
He looks nothing like Black Beard…its so bizarre….no pirate wears a Spanish conquistador looking armor and feathers around there neck, and what looks to be a skirt….yeah so menacing….I forget he was supposed to be a pirate…also why is he called Black Beard in this film?…he doesn’t even have a beard in this movie!!….how just how…movie…how do u mess that up?….its in his name Black Beard….u gotta give him a beard….u had one job….sighh..also we see captain black beard kicking kids off the plank as punishment…to there death, Jesus christ is this a kids film?….anyways here in the mining field…Peter meets James Hook…(played by Garrett Hedlund)..(I only ever seen this actor in one other film…it was a Disney film called Tron Legacy)..how do I even describe this version of Hook…..oh right nothing about him represents Hook!….he not wearing a pirate outfit in this film…no instead he’s wearing a normal grey shirt and blue jacket and brown pants and a tan fedora…..oh yeah because thats totally what captain Hook wears……my god movie….also the way he talks…I don’t know what he was going for it was like the director told him to find his inner Bones from JJ Abrams star trek movies and Han Solo…because thats what his character comes off like in this film….definitely not Hook….also as Chris puts it….Hooks character in this movie is somebody I like to call a teeth talker….basically every time he talks …..he does it with his mouth basically wide open enough exposing his teeth…..what normal person talks like this!!?….oh and sometimes he will tilt his head a tad bit and wear his fedora a bit tilted…again who’s the hell are u supposed to be man!!?….clearly ur not Hook….heck at one point he says to Peter…hey kid I like ur Spunk…..seriously, does any of this sound like anything remotely what Hook would do or say!!?…also they didn’t even give him a beard in this film…his hair color is brown and he has short hair…again nothing about him convinced me he can become Captain Hook….at no point during this movie did I say hm yeah I totally see him as captain Hook…..also this movie is 1 hour and 20 min long its short…and about 30 min into this film is when stuff somewhat, kinda nor really stuff gets interesting…..I don’t know why 15 of the film focused on a brown dirty looking mine…seriously this is Nederland….a place of imagination…which clearly was something the director was lacking in……ohhhhhh…..so also tell me how bad it is when the fact it takes 30 min in the film for some stuff to get somewhat not really better out of an 80 min film…yeah not a good sign…..and if ur asking Jarrod what do u mena by somewhat not really get better…I mean there more color but thats it….because the whole scope of Nederland in this film feels small…probably has to do with the fact we only see 3 locations in this film….1 of which isn’t that interesting to look at for to long….BTW heres another thing I hated about this film they made Peter pan the chosen one…just why….why would u do that……shut up movie just shut up forever…..that has been overused to many times and….really they made a classic character of a boy who never grew up…into a the chosen one……sigh…look it barley worked when George Lucas decided to make Anakin Skywalker the chosen one before he became vader…in my opinion the whole chosen one thing only works with Harry Potter…and thats it….soghhh…..also we have Rooney Mara as Tiger Lilly……what a bizzare casting choice…I say that because think about it they casted a white female actress to play a native American character…..wow thats completely racist….and do u know what Warner Brothers and the directors excuse was….well they didn’t want to add native American stereotypes and come off offensive to people….u know like Disney did…ok but u still could have had them be native Americans and played by native Americans…and not done anything offensive or Sterotypical…nope instead u do something more offensive…congrats u avoided 1 offensive thing and replaced it with something even worse…wow…this seems like something Disney would do..and again this is strange to see in a 2015 movie. ..seems like something that u see in a 1980 film….this be my main complaint with this film. ..that racist casting choice…..it just comes off bizzare and offensive. ..granted she does nothing offensive. ..its just offensive a white female American is playing an native American character……good grief…So I want to take a side step and talk about this native American scene…..this scene is confusing…look i know what they were trying to do, they wanted to stay away from doing offensive native American tropes….like Disney did with Peter Pan……I completely understand, but the end results of what they did, makes no sense….why….why all the pastel!?….why is everyone wearing pastel color clothing?…why do there huts have pastel colors on it and why for they have bright lights lit up at night…again how hasn’t black beard found them yet….he has flying ships, and this tribe is barley hiding…..what are the pirates morons?….well they must be because when our 3 main characters steel one of black beards ship and crash it…they find a map that says native tribe….or something like that…..seriously!?…has black beard not considered searching for the native Americans in the idk….the part of the map that says, native tribe!!?…….also in this native tribe scene, Tiger Lilly is wearing some strange multi colored pastel color hat….idk what it is…best way to describe it is….looks like a flattened pastel colored Pinata…….again why all the pastel!?…why pinata hat!?….oh and we see Tiger Lilly father and hes a aboriginal Australian…..how an aboriginal Australian gave birth to a white American woman is beyond me….no seriously try figuring it out……it ain’t possible….yeah this scene as I said, makes no sense….also why do they have a big trampoline right in the middle of there small village!?…..its there fighting arena….but let’s be honest, who’s kidding them selves believing a trampoline is a good fighting arena…..also why is Hook being forced to fight?….why not Shmee or Peter…..there both tied up….why Hook?….is it because it’s funny to see Hook being slapped around?……also this tribal race in this film makes no sense…Tiger Lilly in this film white as heck and her father in this is dark skinned, how is a dark-skinned guy able to reproduce a white child, is beyond me……is there anything bad about this film u may ask…oh boy yes there is…..so to summarize this up so far….we got chosen one Peter and hunky Hook and white washed Tiger Lilly….wow if those descriptions of the characters don’t sound amazing. ..im not sure what will be……anyways this film tries to force upon us A forced love story between white washed Tiger Lilly and hunky Hook …..no seriously they just force it upon us…..they have bo charisma or anything in common….the only reason they fall in love is because he’s hot and she’s hot…and that’s it….no charisma just…..because there both woman and guy…..sigh….I never bought into it….also the plot is dumb…..the plot is Pan has to learn how to fly in 3 days or else…..wow …congrats movie u stole that plot from the Hook movie…….how much lazier can u get…..u stole the plot from a already good film…and changed the title…..im baffled…at this…why did Warner Brothers pull a Disney?…..anyways let’s move on…the ending is dumb…it comes out of nowhere…..in the third act Black Beard wants to burn all the fairies….what!? This cama won’t of nowhere…and think about how dumb this is…he is wanting to burn the creatures that make fairy dust…which he uses to keep himself look younger…..yeah just makes no sense…..what if he runs out…whos gonna make more fairy dust…why is this part of the plot…this makes no sense…this whole film makes no sense….anyways he dies by falling out of the sky with his ship….while singing nirvana smells like teen spirit….seriously whats with this movies obsession with that song………oh did I forget to mention that this ending has continuity problems….in 1 scene in the last fight scene captain Hook starts falling to his death and 15 seconds he hasn’t hit the floor and is still half way from hitting the floor…yes Peter pan leaves to fly and save him…but yet it takes black beard 5 seconds to fall to the ground and die…wow movie u couldn’t even stick to ur gravity rules u set up…..just wow….congrats Warner Brothers u couldn’t even keep up with ur own continuity…..so anyways film ends with the pan and Hook still friends and Hook is now captain of the jolly roger….and he’s in love with Tiger Lilly…..blahhhh….the end …this film its baffling bad….its a confusing mess….that has continuity problems and the whole white washing thing was racist…and Peter pan in this film is whiny……I’d recommend it just to see for urself just to see how odd or bad it is….I’m gonna give this film a solid 4/10
