Maria Beasley

I really wanted to like this. I grew up on the books and love Seaweed Brain to pieces! But there are way too many changes to the story and characters for me to be okay with it. I can live with them race swapping the characters, don't love it, but I was reserving judgment till I saw the show. Well, their physical traits are not the only thing they changed. Percy flops between being a whiny coward or a serious worrier. They made him look like a wimp in the bus scene with the furies. I'm sorry, my Percy does not run away from a fight. He stands up to bullies and protects Ananbeth even when she doesn't want or need protecting. Annabeth is a straight up arrogant brat that makes me miss Draco Malfoy. This is not the actors fault. Walker is quite capable of pulling off a sarcastic, witty pre-teen as we saw in Adam Project. Furthermore, a pivotal scene (among others) were completely cut. The hellhound attack was the inciting incident that forced them to go on the quest. That is not something you delete. I was going to give this one star but then there was that little nugget with Medusa at the end of Episode 3 and I saw the real Percy shine through for the first time!! I'll give this one more chance, but I'm really not liking it. I hate saying this cause it's so bad, but in a way the movie is more enjoyable than this.

As a good friend of mine says, “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.” If I could give a zero star I would. There is nothing redeeming about this Peter Pan retelling, not even the backstory between Hook and Pan. The two of them having history is not a new breakthrough. We saw it in BBC Neverland and Peter and the Starcatchers. Furthermore the characters are all wrong and they cut out integral scenes, such as Tinkerbelle’s sacrifice. It felt as if they put Peter Pan in a blender and chose the dullest remains to tell their story. Don’t get me started on Wendy. I understood the feminist angle they’re going for, guess they thought the best way was to sideline Pan. Wendy had the same arc in the 2003 Peter Pan movie with more fight scenes and shocker Peters character didn’t have to be lesser to make Wendy seem stronger. I was actually looking forward to this. As you can probably tell I’m a hardcore Peter Pan fan. This movie was garbage.