What you may need to know:
1. Reimagining (sigh) of J.M. Barrie’s fairy tale about a young boy who wakes up in Neverland after Michael Jackson plies him full of ‘Jesus juice‘. That might not be correct.
2. Still has to be better than Hook (1991). Right?
3. Director Joe Wright has largely failed to sustain the promise of his early career. That one-take Steadycam shot in Atonement (2007) is still da bomb, though.
4. Looks like Hugh Jackman is “pulling a Depp.” At least there’s no singing.
5. Rooney Mara’s casting as the Native American Tiger Lily has caused a bit of a stink. She’s still waiting on a call from David Fincher about The Girl who Played with Fire. Daniel Craig isn’t.
6. Broadsheet Prognosis: The Cliffs Notes version of Peter Pan.
Release Date: July 17, 2015.
(DelBoy says hi. Mark blogs about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)
Hannah was great, you mook.
Better than Hook my eye!
Needs more RUFIO!
Bangarang!
Hook is great! Bad form Peetaa
This movie’s been panned !
* sprinkles fairy dust over head, jumps out window *
I can’t believe you just panned Hook. Only watched it last weekend again and yes sometimes I wonder what it would be like to have a life and do stuff other than re-watching childhood films at the weekends. Turner and Hooch again this weekend, I won’t lie I’m pretty excited.
Nothing is better than Hook!!!!
Jesus. Here we go. Hook is a piece of sh1te mess of a film. Even Spielberg hates it.
Only because Michael Jackson got a voodoo curse put on him for not casting him as Pan and going with Williams instead…
… this is actually true. Look it up!
Better than Hook!? Not a chance.
Hanna and anna karenina are both really good. this looks like a turd though.
Joe Wrights movies are pretty much all pants, even though i did enjoy “the soloist”. He needs big period costumes to hide his failures as a filmmaker. This film had a lot of potential especially when i seen the videos of Hugh Jackman lifting weights to be in shape for the role. I think he would have been far better doing a high seas adventure with Jackman as blackbeard then doing some reimagining of Peter Pan which no one wants to see. Finally what the f**k Mark. Hook is a kids classic, you as an adult may not enjoy it but kids love it.
Okay okay. Everyone but me loves Hook. Mea culpa.