Movie adaptation of "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children."
Let me start off by saying that this is entirely all my opinion. I am open to others' opinions, and I hope you are open to mine. And there are going to be spoilers in this review.
I recently finished reading "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children." It is first in line out of six books. I am currently reading the second book, "Hollow City."
I decided to watch the movie adaptation to compare it to the book. I like doing that because I want to see if the movie captures the true essence of the book.
I have to tell you that the "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" movie does not live up to the book at all.
I'm sorry. I did not like it at all. There were so many changes that didn't fit into the continuity of the book so far.
Like, there is no inherent leader to the hollowgasts (hollows) and wrights and there was no fight at a carnival.
And the fact that Olive and Bronwyn's ages were flipped around as well as Olive and Emma's powers were flipped.
Now I understand that movie adaptations change some things but why did there need to be a carnival fight? It was not needed.
The year of the loop changed from 1940 to 1943.
I understand why the movie adaptation did not get a sequel.
I mean, the movie was an adaptation for a book that is first in a series and needed to be dealt with as such. Like, why not end the movie on a cliffhanger to see if there was any way for sequels for the other books in the series?
As I said, I read the book and I now wish that I hadn't watched the movie and that the movie didn't need to be made.
With all that being said, I rate the movie 3/10.
I am currently reading the rest of the books and will give a detailed review once I am done with them.
