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Peter Pan

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 33 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Adventure | Family/Kids | Fantasy
Written by:
P.J. Hogan
Michael Goldenberg
J.M. Barrie (play)
Directed by: P.J. Hogan
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 25, 2003
DVD: May 4, 2004
Running Time: 105 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG for adventure action sequences and peril
Starring Jason Isaacs, Jeremy Sumpter, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Lynn Redgrave, Richard Briers, Olivia Williams, Harry Newell, Freddie Popplewell, and Ludivine Sagnier
A live-action version of Peter Pan with all of the wonder, danger and excitement of J.M. Barrie's original vision. (Universal Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
Like the schoolkids in this adventure, from the opening images to the closing credits, I do, I do, I do believe in fairy tales.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
tT never grow up is unspeakably sad, and this is the first Peter Pan where Peter's final flight seems not like a victory but an escape.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
Hogan whips up a high-energy family entertainment that fairly erases memory of the other filmed versions of Barrie's tale.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Imbued with a greater degree of psychological darkness than before.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
Mr. Hogan understands both themes, and his filmmaking style is a perfect mixture of wide-eyed wonder and slightly melancholy sophistication.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly John Patterson
The movie belongs quite rightly to Wendy, the most enchanting little girl in English fiction, and to the untrained actress, Rachel Hurd-Wood, who plays her.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Uniquely jacked into a ripe sense of antique-nursery Victoriana and buzzing with a pre-adolescent metaphoric charge, J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan is a primary text of modern culture, and P.J. Hogan's live-action rendition is the only one, screen or stage, to completely uncage this changeling and give it flight.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
A bright, whirling pinwheel of a movie that tosses around special effects like confetti, but the techno magic is graced with a touch of sensuality.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Unlike last year's disastrous "Pinocchio" with Roberto Benigni, this movie proves worth the time, effort, and money to get the whole family to a theater.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Mark Caro
It's as if the movie itself has been sprinkled with fairy dust, and good thing, too: The world of Peter Pan is, at heart, so troublesome that it might as well also be enchanting.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
It's gay in the old-fashioned sense, a giddy whirl for the senses, from chilly English drawing rooms to lush Neverland jungle. It's innocent in believing love banishes all ills, even physical ones, and inspires unthinkable heroism.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Both enchantingly old-fashioned and daringly modern.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer
A dazzling retelling of the J.M. Barrie tale, offers accomplished acting, splendid visuals, and in the role of the boy who won't grow up ... an actual boy.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Even at its most hyperactive, Peter Pan has a core of good and bad feeling that will hit home to kids and to adults with honest memories.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer David Hiltbrand
Though the story dawdles at times, the visuals are splendid.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
All Peter Pan lacks is a Peter Pan with any discernible personality, no matter that Jeremy Sumpter is the first actual, genetic boy to play the role on film.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Hogan's version brings out the story's somber side, showing how the mischief of unworldly characters like Peter and Tinkerbell can do real damage, and how refusing to grow up is an awful idea if you actually try it.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
It's tacky and beautiful, sometimes both at the same time. Occasionally flatfooted even as it sparkles, the film suffers when Hogan lets the scenery do the directing for him, but he's chosen a cast capable of shouldering the film's weight.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Hank Sartin
It's a bad sign when you can't name or differentiate any of the Lost Boys.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Though being magical is very much its intention, it never manages to cross the threshold that makes that happen in our hearts.
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
Peter is as adequate as the Harry Potter movies are, though you never sense in either case that kids are being bitten with the permanent movie-loving bug.
Read Full Review >Empire Chris Hewitt
Tonally the film is never more than the sum of its parts, while Sumpter, although physically perfect, just isn’t charismatic enough as Peter.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Simultaneously groundbreaking and remarkably faithful to the classic play.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
Lavishly produced -- overproduced, actually -- and persistently unexciting.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Lush, loud and sparkling, and not nearly as innocent as you might imagine.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
As far as production values go, this Peter Pan is a work of art. So why, then, does the movie feel so crushingly dull?
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
If you can get past the ick factor inherent in these suddenly adulterized relationships –- and there’s really no way this film should have received a kid-friendly PG rating –- and latch on to the film’s wealth of metaphor, you’ll surely have something to discuss over coffee post-screening.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Despite a hint that Peter (Jeremy Sumpter) and Wendy (Rachel Hurd-Wood) might get it on, there's nothing to crow about.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Jean Oppenheimer
The film provides solid entertainment for kids but lacks any real sense of wonder and magic.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
The film suffers from uneven acting, an over-reliance on production values and an uncertainty over how dangerous the children's adventures should be.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
Handsome, respectable and well cast, elaborate production lacks the excitement and magic that would elevate the film to beloved status, and sheer abundance of CGI work weighs on it too heavily.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
Needs more than happy thoughts to get off the ground.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.7 (out of 10) based on 92 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Kellsie P. gave it a10:
I think you should give it a 10 ,it was one of the best kids movies ever and Jeremy Sumpter is one of the sexyest people i have ever seen heshould be in heaps of movies, i think people would like to see more of him like i would.
Kennedy H. gave it a10:
Peter Pan I think was awesome Jeremy Sumpter is so cute!!
Sam gave it a2:
Horrible, horrible movie. Jeremy Sumpter is truly one of the worst child actors of our time (I don't care about what anybod else says). With the exception of Hook, schmee, and the parents, all of the performances are flat out terrible, even worse than the dreadful effects, which look like crappified sci-fi channel effects. One of the biggest dissapointments I've seen in a long, long time.
Tiffany D. gave it a10:
I think this movie is amazing. I watch it about every nite. I think Jeremy sumpter is dreamy. I think he has done a wonderful job. I hope the come out with a second 1. The only think that made me rip my hair out{Hypitheticly} Was seeing wendy kiss him because i love him soo much. That made me extreamly mad and jealous.
Louis's brother gave it a0:
Even when I was a 5 year old, I thought Peter Pan was an off-focused geek and an embarassment to Disney's vast empire, this movie definently proved it. Don't watch, you'll have a better childhood.
B. gave it a10:
For kids it might have a little too much romance - but I'm not a child and I absolutely loved it!!!
Allison M. gave it a9:
I loved the movie it wsa so captivating, but iI just think that it had a little more romance than I thought it would be. Its sposed to be a kids movie isn't !
