{"id":13835,"date":"2016-12-29T19:40:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T03:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/?p=13835"},"modified":"2016-12-29T19:41:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T03:41:09","slug":"review-missperegrineshomeforpeculiarchildren-4k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/2016\/12\/review-missperegrineshomeforpeculiarchildren-4k\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 4K\/BD + Screen Caps"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Miss Peregrine\u2019s Home for Peculiar Children<\/em><\/strong> may not be classic Tim Burton but it is one of his more entertaining outings of late which, with the exception of Frankenweenie<\/em>, haven\u2019t been great. This might not quite be a film for the entire family as there are darker elements but for older kids, they might dig some of the visuals and characters they might relate with on some level.<\/p>\n

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children<\/span>
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Genre(s): <\/strong>Fantasy, Adventure
\nFox | PG13 \u2013 127 min. \u2013 $39.99 | December 13, 2016<\/p>\n

Date Published:<\/strong> 12\/29\/2016 | Author:<\/strong> The Movieman<\/span><\/p>\n

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MOVIE INFO:
\n<\/u>Directed by: <\/strong>Tim Burton
\nWriter(s): <\/strong>Ransom Riggs (novel); Jane Goldman (screenplay)
\nCast: <\/strong>Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Chris O\u2019Dowd, Allison Janney, Rupert Everett, Terence Stamp, Ella Purnell, Judi Dench, Samuel L. Jackson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DISC INFO:
\n<\/u>Features: <\/strong>Featurettes, Music Video, Gallery
\nDigital Copy: <\/strong>Yes
\nFormats Included: <\/strong>UHD, Blu-ray
\nNumber of Discs: <\/strong>2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Audio (UHD): <\/strong>English (Dolby Atmos\/TrueHD 7.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (DTS 5.1)
\nAudio (BD): <\/strong>English (DTS-HD MA 7.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1)
\nVideo: <\/strong>2160p\/Widescreen 1.85 (UHD); 1080p\/Widescreen 1.85 (BD)
\nSubtitles: <\/strong>English SDH, French, Spanish
\nDisc Size: <\/strong>NA
\nCodec: <\/strong>HEVC \/ H.265 (UHD), MPEG-4 AVC (BD)
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Note: <\/strong>This portion contains major spoilers<\/strong>. Readers beware!<\/p>\n

Over the years, Tim Burton has been a hit or miss filmmaker for me. Batman \u201989<\/em> is top tier comic book; Batman Returns<\/em> bottom tier. Beetlejuice<\/em> is 1980s classic; Alice in Wonderland<\/em> 2010s schlock.\u00a0 He\u2019s had some nice surprises like Big Fish<\/em> and Edward Scissorhands<\/em> but generally, I rarely go into one of his films with high hopes.<\/p>\n

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His latest is Miss Peregrine\u2019s Home for Peculiar Children<\/em><\/strong> based on the novel by Ransom Riggs and although I\u2019ve never heard of it, even peripherally, it does have a decent sized fan base. Having never read the book, I\u2019m going in just as a movie not how well it sticks to the source material. And as a film, I had some fun with it even if this perhaps is Burton\u2019s version of X-Men<\/em> crossed with some of the weirdness of his Alice in Wonderland<\/em> (sans annoying characters).<\/p>\n

The plot revolves around an awkward teenage boy Jake Portman (ASA BUTTERFIELD) whose grandfather, Abraham or \u2018Abe\u2019 (TERENCE STAMP), is killed under mysterious circumstances with his eyes being gauged out, though authorities blame it on wild life and ultimately ruled the death as a heart attack.<\/p>\n

However, Jake thinks he saw something that no one else did and subsequently has nightmares that his parents attribute to stories his grandfather told him as a child, including that of Miss Peregrine and her, well, peculiar school of children. To deal with the loss he sees a therapist, Dr. Golan (ALLISON JANNEY). But when Jake\u2019s aunt gives him a birthday gift from his late grandfather, it\u2019s a book containing a postcard from Miss Peregrine to Abe which also reveals her home is on an island called Caimholm in Wales. Jake convinces his father (CHRIS O\u2019DOWD), with the support of Dr. Golan, to travel to Wales.<\/p>\n

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The island is sparsely populated but Jake does receive help, of sorts, from local kids who point him in the direction of the Peregrine\u2019s home but discovers it was destroyed long ago. While inside inspecting, he catches somebody looking at him and upon running away, falls and gets clonked out. When he awakens, while being carried over the shoulder of a girl, he meets the very children Abe told him about:<\/p>\n