Another instance of the good Tim Burton directing this ho-hum movie about peculiar (weird) children; more like a Victorian X-Men that doesn’t fight other mutants. I can’t help feeling Peregrine is a poor attempt at competing with the Harry Potter franchise.
The whole premise involves Jake, a teenage boy undergoing therapy because of his grandfather’s outrageous stories involving this orphanage. When the grandfather is murdered by an intruder, Jake’s parents decide to visit the alleged site on an island off of Wales in order to aid their son’s recovery. You’ll see that the home is there and it isn’t.
Jake meets the infamous Miss Peregrine and all the children grandpa described but learns their secret and what really killed his grandfather.
Overall, small children may get creeped out by the graphic depictions of some kids’ powers. Goth tweeners probably will dig it. I was slightly amused yet I am rather tired of Tim Burton’s work. Big Eyes was the bigger surprise move he made recently. This is just him trying to recapture what he succeeded with in Edward Scissorhands and Beetlejuice.
Alamo Extras: Japanese cartoon of a baseball game between some kids and mutants; a dancing Transformer video with a little kid singing in Hindi; a Japanese game show like America’s Got Talent; an Eighties tribute act of VidKids; Kids singing in Spanish to G-Force (or Battle of the Planets); Freakies cereal commercial; Spanish dance-off with the Universal monsters; Burtonized versions of other movies (Diehard, Forrest Gump); kids as robots in school; clips of weird kids: the Addams children, Gerald McBoing Boing and the Feral Kid from Mad Max 2.