Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

jfgibson73 The strength of this movie is the story, which is now over 100 years old. Neverland uses many lines of dialog and situations from the original Peter Pan story, but tries to put them in a modern context. Peter Pan now hangs out in a theme park, and Captain Hook is a custodian trying to kick him out. Tinkerbell is a drug addict who follows him around, and Wendy and her brothers are adopted teens who can't wait to get away from their spoiled parents.The acting was poor. The visuals and editing are amateurish. There were some especially silly montages that really weren't well timed at all, such as the one where the camera tries to focus on hook the same way Metallica's "Enter Sandman" video studied the wrinkled old man. The emotion that it evoked for me was a weary, defeated feeling.If this was an attempt at commentary, it wasn't very effective. The actress who plays Wendy has a lot of scenes where she gets emotional, and the sentiment feels so false that the best word I can use to describe it is sappy. Same with Peter--his character tries to be very earnest, but his acting is so silly that no one can really care what happens to him. Hook was a bit more fun, as he got to play to the rafters, and Tink was likable. No one else really stood out, except when delivering lines as poorly as possible.Overall, a very amateurish effort with a depressing tone.

johnstonjames What can I say. BRILLIANT!!!! and I love the Peter Pan stories by James Barrie. I feel very protective about the Peter Pan legacy and don't like to see it ruined. that's why I hated Steven Spielberg's horrid film version 'Hook'. Spielberg missed the whole point. ALL CHILDREN GROW UP EXCEPT FOR ONE. 'Hook' didn't take liberties with the story, it missed the whole point and ruined it. plus Robin Williams silly ass was too big and fat to be flying around in that green Peter Pansy costume.My favorite version is the one with Cathy Rigby. she is much better than Mary Martin,and the Rigby production is so beautiful and faithful.Cathy Rigby owns the role. the 1953 Disney version is adorable and the Universal/Columbia studios version is quite good too.That brings us to the Damon Dietz version. iconoclastic, with lots of liberties taken but still a amazing interpretation. much of James Barrie's original dialogue from the play and book are here intact which only makes this whole thing seem more surreal. this is a good adaptation. it knows the story and understands it well.The characterizations here are very funny. Peter,Wendy,John,Michael and the Lost Boys are all appropriately sweet and endearing. Tinkerbell is a bitchy potty-mouthed meth dealer. Tiger Lilly is a beautiful transvestite,(and I do mean beautiful, for a moment I wasn't even sure that was a guy) and Hook is a scary creepy predator that no self respecting parent would want around their kids. and the croc is a filthy low-life perve who needs to get a real job.The music is first class. especially the musical number that Tiger Lilly sings in the Native American Musical Revue.This wonderful film should be commended for achieving such brilliance on such a low budget. like the incredible Cathy Rigby, this film flies you to the second star to the right and straight on into space. I wonder what the Great Ormond Sreet Hospital for Sick Children in London thought of this film? oh well, anyone that doesn't like it can kiss Tiger Lilly's BIG FULL MOON.

jasmineladjevardi Since a young age, I have been in love with the story of Peter Pan. This version of the story is no exception. This movie had the potential to be brilliant, but it does not deliver. I loved the disenfranchised Darling children, but their characters could have been more developed. If the movie had been longer, it may have done this properly. There were so many loose ends that were never explained, such as Tinkerbell's child and who exactly was Wendy's boyfriend and what did he have to do with the story? The acting was horrible in the beginning, but progressively got better, tanks in large part to the actors who played Tinkerbell and Peter Pan. The plot is so wonderful and the ideas and cinematography are enchanting, but if only the director took a little more time on the details, instead of just chain of random events from the book, then this movie could have been on of my favorites. So for shear creativity and story, I gave this movie a 7. Plus the guy who plays Peter is uber dreamy.

xswimcoachx It takes a lot to surprise me, but I was shocked by this. This has to be one of the most subversive things I've ever seen... and not like a porn version of "Alice in Wonderland" or something like that. This low-budget movie very subtly and gradually melted away the Peter Pan mythology and rebuilt it in the most disturbing way. It was as if the filmmakers took the story of Peter Pan and forced it to grow up, without changing its core. A masterful concept that was handled extraordinarily well despite some obvious budget limitations. My wife cried at the end of this film and couldn't stop. While I found it challenging on an intellectual level, I didn't have the emotional response that she did. When I asked her why she found it so sad she told me that when she was young she would always dream that Peter would show up and fly her away to Neverland, and as she got older she of course had the "prince charming" fantasy. She told me that watching this movie was like the symbolic nail in the coffin of that dream. So not only did this movie freak me out, it made my marriage more depressing. In any case, it was powerful, entertaining, and thought provoking... and very captivating. So when someone says they hate this movie and they want to throw the DVD against the wall, I can understand where they are coming from.Neverland delivers a strong, sometimes harshly realistic message, but we can't hate the messenger now, can we? Neverland gets an 8.