Pan

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Pan is an origin story on the Peter Pan character. The movie chronicles Peter Pan’s (admittedly decent newcomer Levi Miller) inaugural trip to the place called Neverland, and shows how he meets and befriends Tinkerbell, Tiger Lily (a miscast Rooney Mara), and future enemies James Hook (Garrett Hedlund) and Mr. Smee (Ahmed Akhtar), and helps them in their battle against the villainous Blackbeard (an overacting Hugh Jackman in what may be the worst performance in his career). After the first 20 minutes, I could tell exactly what I was in for. The result is an entertainingly bad acid trip of a movie. As I have somewhat said already, Hugh Jackman as Blackbeard is hilariously over the top. Despite the fact Rooney Mara was miscast, I still feel that she did the best she could with what she was given. Elements of this movie feel disjointed, like the incorporation of jukebox musical numbers and the movie forgetting about them just as quick. The first ten minutes of the movie feels like a completely different movie compared to the rest. The visual effects, for the most part, are terrible, but much like the rest of the film, they are an interesting sort of bad. But, if I had to pick an element that I felt was the absolute worst, I would have to say it was Joe Wright’s direction. His choices were bizarre and he never seemed comfortable with the direction he wanted to take the movie. I do have to point out that the screenplay also feels very rushed, and there are noticeable holes in the plot, with questions that don’t seem to be very well answered.  

6 / 10