{"id":1091,"date":"2004-04-20T23:41:28","date_gmt":"2004-04-20T23:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1091.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:17","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:17","slug":"peter-pan-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2004\/04\/20\/peter-pan-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Peter Pan (2003)<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a glorious rendition of J.M. Barrie&#8217;s classic.  It&#8217;s a visual feast of colours and scenery, with character portrayals that are believable and engrossing.  On the one hand, it plays out as a classic make-belief adventure story, and on the other hand it exploits every metaphorical subtext the Peter Pan story provides:  the hardships of growing up, the struggle between age and innocence, the blossoming of first love, jealousy and friendship.  The strongest theme, though, is that of the complex relationship between a teenage girl and her father.  This is treated beautifully by letting Jason Isaacs play both the uptight, nervous Mr. Darling (Wendy&#8217;s father) <em>and<\/em> a splendidly debauched Captain Hook.<\/p>\n<p>(If you&#8217;re into in-jokes, look out for the nod to Jurassic Park late on in the film, with the parrot taking the role of one of the raptors.  Hilarious.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a glorious rendition of J.M. Barrie&#8217;s classic. It&#8217;s a visual feast of colours and scenery, with character portrayals that are believable and engrossing. On the one hand, it plays out as a classic make-belief adventure story, and on the other hand it exploits every metaphorical subtext the Peter Pan story provides: the hardships [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_45_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}