SYNOPSIS: When Jacob discovers clues to a mystery that stretches across time, he finds Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. But the danger deepens after he gets to know the residents and learns about their special powers. Rating: 2/5
For anyone who didn't read the book, this was probably a good movie, but as I read the book some parts of this film were excruciating to watch. I LOVE book-Emma. She is fierce and strong and her power of controlling fire suits her personality perfectly. In the movie she is given Olive's power, which is much better fitting a young girl like book-Olive. Emma can now levitate and it makes me so angry. This makes her a different character entirely and she is no longer fierce and fire-y, but soft and float-y. Literally. Olive in turn gets Emma's fire, and she's also made much older than she is in the book, making her pretty much just a new character with the same name. Honestly, when I first saw her on screen I thought that was Fiona, as it's pretty much how she is described in the books. Fiona's age is also changed, as she was a teenager in the books but in the film she is a young child. I hate these changes a lot and I think they kind of ruined the movie for me. The fact that the ending was very different from the book (I was so surprised by the movie ending that I went back to the book to see if I'd completely miss-remembered it) bothered me as well, but changing the story does not hurt me as much as changing the characters does. I love book-Emma as a character, but movie-Emma is much more of just a love interest to Jacob, and Olive also becomes Enoch's love interest (yikes). Overall this movie might have been good if it hadn't been based off a book that was 10x better. I've read the other two books in the series as well, and I seriously wonder how the movie producers are going to fit all their changes into the plots of the other books into movie sequels, as I don't think that's really going to work. If you enjoy the books, you probably shouldn't watch the movie as it might just make you angry like it did with me. IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt1935859/
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