Pan panned by critics as one reviewer awards remake zero stars
Lou Lumenick of the New York Post found aboslutely nothing whatsoever to like about the live-action movie
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Your support makes all the difference.Peter Pan’s live action remake Pan is being, well, panned by critics with one reviewer hating it so much he gave it a grand total of zero stars.
Newcomer Levi Miller stars in the lead as The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, alongside Hugh Jackman as pirate Blackbeard, Rooney Mara as Native American princess Tiger Lily (a controversy in itself) and Garrett Hedlund as Hook. Oh and Cara Delevingne as three mermaids.
But while some have branded Joe Wright’s family adventure “joyously uncool” (The Telegraph), and even “exhilarating” (Digital Spy), Lou Lumenick of the New York Post loathed it, describing it as “failing in just about every imaginable way, as well as some you couldn’t possibly imagine”.
The setting has shifted from the Edwardian Era to World War II London, with one scene in which RAF fighter planes shoot at a flying pirate ship flopping hardest with critics.
Wright is “utterly tone-deaf when it comes to fantasy”, Lumenick writes, before dismissing the entire cast as “uniformly charmless”. Jackman’s brief rendition of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” proved the nail in this “schmaltzy” Neverland’s coffin.
Despite this, Pan opened with a fair $650,000 take in the US on Thursday night. It reaches UK cinemas on 16 October.
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