The movie version of Miss Peregrin’s Home for Peculiar Children lacks the charm of the book. It starts off slow, gets really morbid, the ends as a fluffy action movie. It also had some time travel consequences that didn’t make sense to me, namely the grandfather coming back to life—I know I’ve mentioned I hate time travel, something that didn’t even occur to me while reading the book. Also, I didn’t buy the romance between Emma and Jake.
It wasn’t all bad though. The monster designs were cool, and the special effects were great. Worth seeing once for the scenes in the underwater ship. I also liked Eva Green’s performance as Miss Peregrin.
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I haven’t read the book, but the movie itself was kind of stale. Mostly revolving around that same gimmick of strange children, for two hours.
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The book was good, unusual but good. I linked to my review of it up above. The movie was really missing the heart of the relationship between Jacob and his grandfather.
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