Well, elders please don’t blame the director after watching this movie. This film is purely intended for children. And to parents of kids this is for you; the kids may find this flick very deep and very silly at the same time.
Plot: Pan is the special person who is given the difficult task of taming Blackbeard, the baddie. Pan was forsaken by his mother when he was very young and he is under the control of an orphanage, as per the decision of his mother. Then he is under the domination of a wicked nun. The future of Pan seems bleak. Pan happens to go to Neverland and is persuaded to do child labour. And there in Neverland is the atrocities of Blackbeard. But note this, Pan can indeed fly.
The story of
Peter Pan
has been shown in films before, but this Pan is told in a very fresh manner. The imagination of Pan is very well expressed in this movie.
Levi Miller
steals the show with his aura of confidence. Jackson’s performance as the villain is inspired by other actors as well as a contribution of his own skills. Tiger Lilly is the surprise package of the film, who infuses moral in Pan and Hook (the friend of Pan).
What I liked most about the movie is that it has actors from different parts of the world. The film sometimes tries to bring the child in us. The particular scenes when the natives go off into vapors of color at the time of their killing, is indeed imagination at its best. Also, the scene where Pan is kidnapped by pirates in a flying ship is a visual treat. However, several action scenes are noisy and you get tired of them sometimes.
Joe Wright
, who had earlier worked on adult films such as the Pride and Prejudice, endeavored into Pan for the sake of his own kids.
Verdict: The story takes you to a world of imagination. The grandiose of the film will make you forget its flaws, including the weak storyline, gaudy visual design and noisy BGM.