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movie review - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is a film about a boy who joins an unusual household full of bizarre children. The household operates in a day-long time loop that's designed to hide it from the world, in particular some modified humans called "hollows". Never mind that the day loop that the house is caught in features the intrusion of one such hollow. Never mind that the story is disrupted entirely to have the main character leave the house for the night rather than experience the time loop.

As you might expect from some a fantasy setting, there's a lot that has to go right in such a tale and it mostly does, here. The setting and the characters and the adult lead (Eva Green) were all great, thought the main character seems a passive cypher going with the flow. I eventually started skipping through the thing after I'd had enough just to see it through though I no longer cared.

Not recommended.