![]() ![]() ![]() In reality, it does anything but (we are four years past collective exhaustion with these updates), but the path that has led us here can’t be traced by a timeline you’d see at a Disney shareholders expo. ![]() ![]() Anderson’s daughter) as Wendy, and the odd maritime shanty and “Lost Boy versus pirate” scuffle raise some amusement, but it feels too laborious, ineffectual and flimsy to linger in the imagination–a symptom of modern Disney streaming fare.Ī sub-average Peter Pan adaptation in recent memory is nothing new (see Joe Wright’s Pan and Benh Zeitlin’s Wendy ), but this one comes with a stamp of enforced authenticity by Disney: This is the hallowed live-action remake, the prestige treatment of any well-crafted animation, meaning it must be considered the official, esteemed and genuine artifact, as only this Peter Pan will strengthen Disney’s brand. The kid actors do a terrific job, especially Ever Anderson (Milla Jovovich and Paul W.S. The film is everything we feared: staggeringly uninteresting. Peter Pan & Wendy is finally on Disney+, meaning someone somewhere has taken a deep sigh, walked over to a large corkboard reading “GREAT DIRECTORS WHO HAVE PREMIERED ON STREAMING,” and crossed out David Lowery’s picture. ![]()
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