As the tale drags on, Peter and his pals are attacked through the skylight by marauding pirates in flying ships piloted by the evil Blackbeard, played by an unrecognizable Hugh Jackman. To make things worse, it’s World War II and London is in the middle of the blitz (an excuse for German bombs to fall toward their targets in 3-D). Twelve years later, Peter (a pretty little ham actor named Levi Miller) and his fellow orphans are still being starved and beaten by a flock of cruel nuns in an orphanage so bleak it would make Charles Dickens laugh. In Pan, the boy who “won’t grow up” is left on the doorstep of a foundling home in the London fog by a human mother and a fairy father from a place called Neverland. The result is both relentlessly overwrought and instantly forgettable. Piling on the CGI and special effects, he has teamed up with Jason Fuchs (the animated Ice Age) to imagine where J. Joe Wright is a good director who decided, after such respected artistic successes as Pride and Prejudice and Atonement, to trade art for commerce and make some money. ![]() Starring: Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman and Garrett Hedlund
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