Peter Pan

was total god-awful dreck. I took Cynthia to see it because she was all excited to watch it and not even she liked it. I have no idea how a movie theater full of kids could possible enjoy it either, since it was very boring.

The visual effects were pretty crappy, it looked good and fanciful and everything, but the flying was so obviously done in front of a blue screen that it just ruined the whole effect. Certain scenes were just very devoid of any depth at all, sort of like the whole movie was one big blue screen. Sure, this wouldn't ruin the movie for any little kids, but it did a lot of breaking my suspension of disbelief.

Overall, very, very, very blah. This is a movie where, if I had known it was like this, I would have told my kids, "Yeah, uhm, how about we go see Brother Bear instead?" Or, as a better example for those who know my dislike of SpongeBob, the best part of Peter Pan was the trailer for the SpongeBob SquarePants movie that was horrifyingly hilarious. How kids can find that amusing either I don't know, but I couldn't stop laughing past my horrified grimace.