This review was originally posted on Punch Drunk Critics
So Tim Burton is back with a new film. No lie I thought he did that trash new Alice in Wonderland movie but I found out he didn’t, yet I still give him the blame. For the most part, I haven’t liked a Tim Burton film since 1999 when Sleepy Hollow dropped. He put up so many weaker and weaker live-action film efforts since then that to me it’s almost like he got bored or lost something once he didn’t get to make Superman Lives. Every now and then he has an interesting animated thing he’s working on but that’s far and few between. Sweeny Todd was ok but honestly, I really like musicals so I’m probably biased from the songs (Sondheim is a beast). So many months ago when I heard of this movie Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children I was like, whatever it’s probably some more Burton overwrought goth art-directed movie where aesthetic is more important than story, pacing, and character. What I ended up seeing actually wasn’t that bad, it was actually pretty decent and the story kind of made sense.
