{"id":18139,"date":"2015-12-22T00:59:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T05:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=18139"},"modified":"2015-12-22T00:59:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T05:59:26","slug":"pan-2015-blu-raydvddigital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/22\/pan-2015-blu-raydvddigital\/","title":{"rendered":"Pan (2015) [Blu-Ray\/DVD\/Digital]"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Another in a line of 2015 films I really wanted to love, \u201cPan\u201d left me bored, and asking did we really need a prequel? Did we really need to end the movie on Peter and Captain Hook giving one another uncomfortable glances knowing soon they\u2019d become deadly nemeses? Why is Captain Hook called Hook if he doesn\u2019t even have a Hook? Why is Tiger Lily played by a Lily White Actress? Hey, at least Hollywood keeps giving consistently flat Rooney Mara jobs, and turns Tiger Lily in to the heroine of a movie that\u2019s supposed to be about Peter Pan. Or is he Peter who is a Pan? Or is he a Pan Warrior Named Peter?<\/p>\n

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\u201cPan\u201d is a brutally clich\u00e9 and derivative prequel and origin story of Peter Pan and how he once met Captain Hook, a vicious future villain who initially began as a friend and ally of Peter\u2019s. Hook is an adventurer of a sorts. I think. There are absolutely no seeds planted for Hook to become a villain in the film, so his transformation, even when the credits roll, seems absurd and far-fetched. If you\u2019ve never seen or heard anything about Peter Pan in your life, you\u2019d never guess Peter and Hook would become mortal enemies, with Hook so hell bent on defeating Pan he\u2019d resort to murder on occasion. It\u2019s really hard to believe the Southern adventurer played by Garret Hedlund would suddenly become a twisted pirate in the vein of the film\u2019s villain Blackbeard.<\/p>\n

Blackbeard is Hook, an old man chasing youth and trying to outwit father time, except Hook is now just more of a hero who helps create the character known as Peter Pan. Nothing about \u201cPan\u201d is well conceived, beginning as a lame take on \u201cOliver Twist,\u201d and then transforming in to a bleak visit to Neverland, where Peter is \u201cThe Chosen One,\u201d and he is the key to some magical maguffin that all of the characters are looking for. \u201cPan\u201d is a joyless iteration of Peter Pan, preferring to take more interesting ideas and then turning them over to more grim circumstances. Peter doesn\u2019t even discover his ability to fly until the climax where he throws himself off a plank in to a potential death, which then allows him to learn how to fly.<\/p>\n

His sudden declaration \u201cThink Happy Thoughts\u201d upon battling the stock villain comes off as a cheesy bit of lip service for fans of the story, and feels painfully out of context. Nothing about \u201cPan\u201d really understands the idea and concept behind Peter Pan, as it presumes fairy dust is the key to Peter\u2019s ability to fly, turns Peter in to some hybrid of magical characters and even turns Tinkerbell in to a very minor character tacked on for a cameo. Even with its excellent special effects, it\u2019s a shame to see Wright and co. completely turn it in to a flat, and boring prequel we never asked for in the first place.<\/p>\n

Featured on the Blu-Ray is a commentary with director Joe Wright, if you\u2019re willing to sit through \u201cPan\u201d once again. Wright sparks some insight in to his use of CGI, and the relationships in the film, including with Peter and his mother. \u201cNever Grow Up: The Legend of Pan\u201d is a ten minute segment exploring the evolution of Peter Pan, JM Barrie\u2019s original writing, and offers no mention of other iterations from Disney. \u201cThe Boy Who Would Be Pan\u201d is a look at actor Levi Miller, who plays Peter, and the casting process. \u201cThe Scoundrels of Neverland\u201d is a six minute exploration of Blackbeard and his pirates. Finally, \u201cWondrous Realms\u201d is a five minute tour of Neverland, the practical sets, artist renderings, and the CGI creations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another in a line of 2015 films I really wanted to love, \u201cPan\u201d left me bored, and asking did we really need a prequel? Did we really need to end the movie on Peter and Captain Hook giving one another uncomfortable glances knowing soon they\u2019d become deadly nemeses? Why is Captain Hook called Hook if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,64,71,1292,349,580,654,752,769,778,797],"class_list":["post-18139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adaptation","tag-adventure","tag-fairies","tag-fantasy","tag-kids","tag-mermaids","tag-p","tag-peter-pan","tag-pirates","tag-prequel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18141,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18139\/revisions\/18141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}