Pan

 

Pan 2015

• Director: Joe Wright
• Seen by this director: Darkest Hour, The Soloist, Hanna, Atonement, Pride and Prejudice
• Based on the characters by J M Barrie
• Cast: Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund, Rooney Mara, Adeel Akhtar, Kathy Burke
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Hugh Jackman – Many
• Garrett Hedlund – Inside Llewyn Davis
• Rooney Mara – Women Talking, Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far On Foot, Social Network
• Adeel Akhtar – The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, Victoria & Abdul, Unforgotten, The Night Manager, River, Utopia
• Kathy Burke – Absolutely Fabulous the Movie, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky, Happiness, Once upon a Time in the Midlands, Elizabeth, Nil by Mouth, Absolutely Fabulous, Sid and Nancy
• Why? The cast
• Seen: 19 April 2024 

       Peter (Miller) is left at an orphanage as an infant. Ten years later, during the WWII Blitz, he is kidnapped by Black Beard (Jackman) and off he goes in a pirate ship to Neverland.

       The film got very mixed reviews. No one loved it, some liked it it, some hated it. I’m one of the likers. Some hated the flirting with other films, for example Indiana Jones and Moulin Rouge, and the use of Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, but that’s all part of the fun. The cast, as expected, is good. If you don’t think the Peter Pan story is sacred and shouldn’t have a prequel, and if you just want an entertaining film, ignore the whingers and see it.      

3 ½ * of 5