This new “Peter Pan & Wendy” features yet another scene-stealing Hook played by Jude Law, who has blossomed nicely in middle age.ĭirected and co-written by critic’s darling David Lowery, auteur of over-praised 2021 effort “The Green Knight” and the frankly ridiculous 2017 art house hit “A Ghost Story,” this new Disney Peter Pan film is just plain dull. I wish I had seen Boris Karloff’s singing Captain Hook in the 1950 Broadway musical. This is why Dustin Hoffman was able to steal the abysmal “Hook” (1991) from Robin Williams (petty theft). Barrie’s character Peter Pan first appeared in his 1902 novel “The Little White Bird” and then became the lead in Barrie’s 1904 hit stage play “Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up.” Hook is often the meatier part in the many adaptations because the actor playing him gets to wave his sword and his hook around and do his best pirate impression. Some of us are still recovering from Joe Wright’s career-crashing 2015 flop “Pan.” Then there was Benh Zeitlin’s 2020 mystery-wrapped-in-an-enigma “Wendy.” I could go on. We’ve seen so many Peter Pan movies that we’ve lost count of them and their Peters, Wendys, Tinker Bells and Captain Hooks.
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