{"id":111259,"date":"2020-11-13T23:49:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T20:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-come-away-review-peter-pan-and-alice-share-the-screen\/"},"modified":"2020-11-13T23:49:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T20:49:09","slug":"watch-come-away-review-peter-pan-and-alice-share-the-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-come-away-review-peter-pan-and-alice-share-the-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Come Away&#8217; Review: Peter Pan and Alice Share the Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3717dcc00de\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3717dcc00de\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-come-away-review-peter-pan-and-alice-share-the-screen\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Come_Away_Review_Peter_Pan_and_Alice_Share_the_Screen%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Come Away&#8217; Review: Peter Pan and Alice Share the Screen&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-come-away-review-peter-pan-and-alice-share-the-screen\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Come_Away_Review_Peter_Pan_and_Alice_Share_the_Screen%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Come Away&#8217; Review: Peter Pan and Alice Share the Screen&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Come_Away_Review_Peter_Pan_and_Alice_Share_the_Screen%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Come Away&#8217; Review: Peter Pan and Alice Share the Screen&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Come_Away_Review_Peter_Pan_and_Alice_Share_the_Screen%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Come Away&#8217; Review: Peter Pan and Alice Share the Screen&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        For some, the prospect of former Pixar director Brenda Chapman (\u201cBrave\u201d) making her live-action debut will make \u201cCome Away\u201d seem exciting. For others, it\u2019s the film\u2019s literary conceit that <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eals: What if Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan had been siblings? And then there\u2019s the casting of Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo as the parents, which suggests certain possibilities in terms of how the story might deal with certain seldom-examined <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> dynamics within its period setting \u2014 possibilities that internet trolls have targeted with racist comments.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, \u201cCome Away\u201d squanders all of these opportunities on a ponderous family drama that even Netflix (where concept is everything and quality is often beside the point) wasn\u2019t interested in acquiring when it premiered at Sundance back in January. At the festival, the film was overshadowed by \u201cWendy,\u201d but even in the straight-to-streaming doldrums of the coronavirus pandemic, it\u2019s hard to muster much excitement for a movie as stiff and serious as this.<\/p>\n<p>The story concerns a trio of children raised by forward-thinking parents Jack (Oyelowo) and Rose Littleton (Jolie), who encourage their kids\u2019 creativity \u2014 unlike their snobbish aunt Eleanor (Anna Chancellor). Peter (Jordan A. Nash) discovers a miniature pirate ship by the creek in their backyard and fantasizes that he\u2019s leader of a gang of \u201clost boys,\u201d at war with Indians only he can see. Alice (Keira Chansa) hosts elaborate tea parties for her stuffed animals. It should be noted that this is an alternate origin story for both characters, and neither has yet embarked on the adventures for which they are beloved \u2014 a sure disappointment for anyone hoping to spend quality time in the alternate realms of either Neverland or Wonderland.<\/p>\n<p>Before audiences can start to enjoy spending time with these two, their older brother, David (Reece Yates), dies in a freak accident. Of the three child actors, Yates seemed the most promising, but now we\u2019re left with two kids whom Chapman is uncertain how to direct, focusing more on their diction than their performances. Nash and Chansa don\u2019t seem to believe in their roles \u2014 ironic, considering how central imagination is to both J. M. Barrie\u2019s and Lewis Carroll\u2019s work. If young audiences can\u2019t see themselves in these characters, the movie\u2019s all but sure to be a slog.<\/p>\n<p>And then there is Jolie, who goes from playing World\u2019s Greatest Mom to a frail zombie, drinking her pain away in private. John Debney\u2019s fairy-dust score (one of the film\u2019s few strengths) grows very melancholy for a time, and Alice insists on believing that David isn\u2019t really dead, but merely hiding. Dad has the toughest time of it, falling back into a self-destructive gambling habit (which has the slight bright spot of putting him in contact with an underworld character played by Michael Caine). If this sounds like an awful lot of exposition for a film in which the Peter-and-Alice-as-siblings idea should have done the trick, that\u2019s sadly the case.<\/p>\n<p>For nearly 80 of the film\u2019s 94-minute running time, screenwriter Marissa Kate Goodhill is too busy establishing the dreary \u201creal world\u201d environment in which these two kids were raised, until audiences inevitably realize the film has no intention of taking us elsewhere. That appears to be a flaw of concept, rather than resources, as the independent production is lavish with its sets, especially the Victorian London locations, where the siblings meet a mad hatter (Clarke Peters) and have a run-in with the soon-to-be-handless Capt. James (David Gyasi). The visual effects prove considerably less impressive (\u201cshoddy\u201d would be a better word), but it\u2019s not as if there\u2019s some great need for them, since the fantasy sequences are few and far between.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the filmmakers have overthought how to seed an unnecessarily complicated <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of \u201cinspirations\u201d for Alice and Peter\u2019s later adventures, reverse-engineering mundane details to explain how the children came up with the ideas for Tinkerbell, the Red Queen, a crocodile, a broken clock and so forth. The payoff is meant to occur in audiences\u2019 heads, as viewers make the connection between insider literary references and the stories that will follow (off screen), but it all feels like too much make-believe \u2014 two characters pretending to be Alice and Peter, rather than the real deal.<\/p>\n<p>The script attempts a modest amount of social commentary, judging the kids\u2019 judgmental aunt, who reprimands Alice: \u201cIt\u2019s a disgusting habit of the lower class, and just because your father is from that class, it does not mean that you have to be too. We will make a lady of you yet.\u201d But Chapman\u2019s choice of casting Black actors might have afforded the chance to explore race relations in Victorian England, or even to address the lingering bigotry of today (reinforced by the \u201creview bombing\u201d on sites like IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes). Instead, she treats it as a nonissue \u2014 a win for representation, perhaps, though only nominally so, since it scrubs the characters of what their Black identity might mean.<\/p>\n<p>If that seems like asking too much, then perhaps Chapman could have toned down some of the film\u2019s other more adult-centric themes \u2014 Rose\u2019s alcoholism, Jack\u2019s gambling addiction, etc. Her approach is simultaneously far too heavy and not at all substantial, a long, slow buildup to something wondrous that never comes. Frankly, the movie feels like being trapped in a never-ending pitch meeting for itself: so many rough ideas in search of execution. In the end, \u201cCome Away\u201d posits that one of the siblings chose to run away and remain a child forever, while the other grew up to tell the tale, though the story we\u2019re given leaves off too soon. What should have been a perfect excuse for escapism instead feels like a recipe for a lifetime of therapy, which is hardly what audiences want from these characters.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-movies-tv-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch Movies &#038; TV Series <\/a><\/span>category<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2020\/film\/reviews\/come-away-review-1234831324\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Come Away&#8217; Review: Peter Pan and Alice Share the Screen&#8221; &#8220;&#8216;Come Away&#8217; Review: Peter Pan and Alice Share the Screen&#8221; For some, the prospect of former Pixar director Brenda Chapman (\u201cBrave\u201d) making her live-action debut will make \u201cCome Away\u201d seem exciting. 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