Peter Pan & Wendy (2023).......belongs to the peculiar genre that the Disney corporate overloards won't let go.....the WASTE OF EVERYONE'S TIME LIVE ACTION REMAKE THAT NOBODY WANTED OR ASKED FOR......
The Mouse House greed-mongers continue to squander who knows how many millions grinding out these clunky, unworthy, pale imitations of their classic animated films....
It's possible that Disney came to realize that this latest remake atrocity turned out so dead-on-arrival, so abysmally rotten, they gave it a quick burial on Disney Plus.
Before anyone starts to think otherwise, I do not have any beef with the film's inclusive, multi-cultural casting and its expected elimination of the toxic 'red indian' stereotyping of Native Americans. Yes, it's exciting and overdue to see a Cree Nation actress, Alyssa Wapanatank, playing Tiger Lily, but all the cultural corrections on display don't make up for the weak storytelling and second rate filmmaking.
Visually dark, humorless and overly steeped in grim backstory, the film grinds on at an indifferent pace for a very slow 106 minutes. It's anybody's guess as to what audience this was designed for.....older kids will want to check Tik-Tok videos while watching it, while the younger ones will most likely fall fast asleep.
Jude Law makes a snarling go of it as Captain Hook and Alexander Molony is a plucky enough Pan, but there's hardly any real movie surrounding them. Only Hook's ticking nemesis crocodile makes any impression, since it looks edited in from 'Jurassic World' outtakes.
Just about any other 'Peter Pan' adaptation would serve as a better choice than this one, including Steven Spielberg's misguided, maligned "Hook" or even a DVD of that woeful live TV musical version with an aging Christopher Walken as Hook and Allison Williams as Peter Pan.
As for "Peter Pan & Wendy".....it belongs in the landfill pile alongside "Cruella", the CGI "The Lion King", and the already obscure, forgotten and terrible live action slogs "Beauty And Beast", "Cinderella", "Dumbo" and "Aladdin".....all AFHs....ABOMINATIONS FROM HELL.....for Neverland....send this one Never Ever Again-Land.....
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