PAN is yet another young person's fantasy adventure flick, made on a massive Hollywood blockbuster but completely missing the magic that belongs in children's films such as these. It's another hulking and overlong CGI adventure, crazily attempting to tell of Peter Pan's back story in which Hook is a random US adventurer and ally and the big bad is a plummy Hugh Jackman as Blackbeard. Sadly, this misfiring oddity is just as shallow and irritating as Spielberg's HOOK, with misguided acting on the part of the child stars and plenty of ham ladled in from the adults. The CGI ships and scenery looks entirely fake and there's no kind of narrative consistency, the story merely bobbling along aimlessly instead.
Review of Pan
