Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
magnuslhad The only sense of wonder Pan invokes is who to blame for this spectacular pig's breakfast of a film. Screenwriter Jason Fuchs seems to have no sense at all of visual storytelling. Everyone speaks in expository dialogue from the off, and does not let up to the credits. The kids find the treasure trove, and so say "It's the treasure trove." Then they find the records and so say, "It's the records." Did Fuchs think he was writing a radio play? Why did Wright straitjacket his cast with these stiff exchanges? The film touches on Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Caribbean, Star Wars, The Matrix, shamelessly cannibalizing parts from other successful adventures and insultingly thinking we won't notice. The boy playing Pan looks good but acts so wooden he blends into the ship. Everyone else is flat, though the clunky dialogue gives them very little option for nuance. Wright opts for a big blancmange of colour, song and CGI, but it's a mix that falls dreadfully flat. I came to this with low expectations - the only surprise was that it is even worse than the bad reviews imply.
Sean Payne Eragon hear, here we go again with yet another riveting review, of a rather awesome film by director Joe Wright, Starring Hugh Jackman as Blackbeard Garrett Hedlund as Hook, Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily, and Introducing Levi Miller as PAN, this is the backstory to the Peter Pan Saga, I thought the story was well thought out professionally executed by a 10 star Director, I thought that Pan was played by a excellent young actor Levi Miller first rate. his face said all that needs to be said in this movie Hugh Jackman a veteran in the film industry plays the villain with an intensity rarely seen today, the story line is just what the Peter Pan saga needed a backstory so we now know where Peter pan came from and how Hook enters the story. In closing i give this film one hundred out of one hundred stars
JLRVancouver "Pan" adds an unnecessary backstory involving orphans and the Blitz to J.M. Barrie's famous boy who wouldn't grow up. No longer a wayward child who just wants his own way (and gets it), he's now the "chosen one" and his mother some kind of fairy warrior/spirit/martyr. Setting up the sequel, his buddy is James Hook (Garrett Hedlund, channelling Han Solo) and his nemesis is Blackbeard (a hamming Hugh Jackson) who, after ostensibly extirpating the local fairy population, is mining pixie dust to keep himself young. The movie is continuous spectacular, but not especially imaginative, CGI (often involving flying pirate ships) yet lacks any sense of 'magic' – coming across as some tedious mash-up of 'Star Wars' and 'Oliver'. The oddest thing in the film is the use of Nirvana and Ramones songs, perhaps intended to convey the 'out-or-time' nature of Neverland but just out of place and off-putting (and pointless as the songs seem to have nothing to do with the story). Overall, I found the characters and the story uninteresting and ended up watching most of the movie with one eye (the other surfing around on my phone, reading about the original Peter Pan). I'm not surprised that the movie took a pounding in the box office – hopefully that will keep the painfully predestined sequel from being made. "Pan" is not quite as bad as the loud and pointless reboot of 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' but that's faint praise.
said-buet10 This whole movie is just wrong. I'm not familiar with the original Peter Pan story but I hope that has very little resemblance to this disaster. This is a complete waste of money and acting talent.The whole making was all over the place. Extensive use of CGI on something which is far from mere average. Everything seemed unorganized, even sometimes forced. The acting was mediocre. One can even argue that there were nothing to actually act on. Very little to no character development for the supporting roles. I was seriously wondering who thought this story might actually work!!To the people who haven't seen this I must say....don't waste two hours of your life on this.
