A movie for children. Unfortunately I saw this movie as an adult and there were too many plot holes or unexplained stuff for me to enjoy. Pity because I did like the visual effects and some ideas of the story.
The children were all basically more than 60 years old, since they kept their memories each day but just had their bodies reset (which doesn't really make sense in my mind) but all of them seemed to still acted like children, which I found strange.
It's almost as insane to think someone would go "I must keep my children safe" and keep them stuck in a certain age in the same place forever, getting them to repeat the same 'chores' every single day, over and over again. If any mom did that to their own child, they'd be in a mental hospital straight away. I guess the children did have the choice to leave the place? But it seemed like they were some what stuck as 'children' that needed looking after, which meant that they couldn't easily just leave. That whole thing made Miss Peregrine look insane. She seemed like she had the insane eyes as well every now and again and my partner noticed her hands shook as she held the pipe which didn't help the case. The introduction to her felt real badly done. Her time thing saying "You're 49 seconds late" or something just felt really weird and off, like an overbearing mother who scolds her children for the most minor mistakes.
Then there were the Hollows. The threat that the children needed protecting from. Like... you knew about the Hollows, time flies on outside and you can get all the information you want, even bring in outside material (since Peculiars can go in and out) but your main weapon stash is... crossbows?? seriously?? No guns, no training, nothing. Like the children seemed like they've never been prepared for this kind of threat ever in their life until Jack came by and instructed them what to do.
Another thing is... the time loop thing... just didn't make sense to me. So when Jack goes into the time loop, grandpa was alive, because that was in the past. We all saw when they killed Baron and the Hollows or whatever, it was in modern time. There were electric trams and stuff... So when they go back to 1940 or whatever, Baron and all that should be alive again right? Plus since Jack decided to stay in the past and live for a year there to get to the right time, he should arrive there just at the beginning of when they start the time loop? So basically, none of that whole killing the Baron stuff would've happened?
Because this was a kids movie, the Baron didn't kill any of the children on the spot when he could have... that was an eye roller. Like any logically psychopath would've murdered them as soon as they had the chance when they were obviously in the way. He could change his arm into a weapon for god sakes. But no, he instead turned into Jack?? I didn't understand that...
I also found it mildly amusing that Jack's only special power was to be able to see the Hollows. Well, since Baron and his Hollows are dead, is his powers completely meaningless? haha I guess one of the other girl just had a mouth at the back as her peculiarity, but that just made me wonder about all kind of minor defects. Like kids with 12 toes, kids with tetrachromacy, hermaphrodites, photographic memory etc... And where were all these children from? Where they all just abandoned by their parents? or did Miss Peregrine convince them to give them away? She didn't just... Take them right?!?
Sigh... anyway, like I said, I probably would've enjoyed this movie if I was a kid. Like a 10 year old who didn't know enough to say, "hey that's cool." It sucks having a brain sometimes.
