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Reviews
Pan (2015)
Would have been better if it WASN'T a Peter Pan Story
By the end of the film I was absolutely convinced that what was produced was NOT the original story or screenplay. Most likely the writer had a fun adventure planned out for a poor orphaned boy from WWII England. It was suggested that he was dyslexic, which I thought had some potential - being myself married to a brilliant dyslexic. In any case, I imagine that the writer took his screenplay to various producers who said something along the lines of "That's a nice story, but no one has ever heard of it. We can't SELL it. Can't you turn it into, oh, say Peter Pan? We can sell Peter Pan."
So the poor writer hacks and slashes his work to conform it to Mr. Barrie's tale and it becomes an abomination of both his original story and that of Peter Pan.
Visually impressive. A good performance by its young lead, but he is wasted on such a mishmash of a story. Hook? Grating on the senses. Tiger Lily? Perhaps in a different universe she would work, with an entirely different name. Blackbeard? Mr. Jackson should read the script before signing on to do his next film, although he does make a good villain. Nirvana??? Utterly inexplicable.
The Magic Sword (1962)
"He showed me visions of you to torture me!"
And that about sums it up. Actually I enjoyed watching this film for the sheer silliness of it. Laid up from work for the day due to tremendous back pain, I was looking for something on Netflix to inspire me while writing my own silly fantasy novel for NaNoWriMo (Google it). This fit the bill perfectly!
Everything is over the top here except the budget. The dialogue is as cheesy and corny as you could wish for. You can just feel the screenwriter grasping at straws as he had to rack his brain for "curses" and solutions. (Turns out the power of "Patrick's faith" is stronger than all the magic in the movie.)
It's simple, colorful and has enough action to keep kids interested, I suppose, but I recommend it as your own MST3K fodder when you just want something to make fun of.