Film review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
A problem with Tim Burton is that he is like a mamba. No-one knows where he will strike next — not even the studios that are happy to finance his enormous successes (Alice in Wonderland had worldwide revenues of over US$1bn) but less so when he delivers a resounding flop. A sub-problem is that (as a gifted child addicted to comics) his selection of genre can be muddled by what appear to be inner problems he should discuss with someone. In this movie, the hero, Jake (Butterfield), has a frosty father – which has relevance to Miss (defiantly Miss, not Ms) Peregrine (a slinky Eva Green). Her "home" on a remote island can be taken as an allegory of the children moved to the countryside during German aerial bombardments in World War 2. And society locks up "peculiar" kids and refugees.
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