That of course goes for Wendy, John, and Michael all swept out of their London circa 1911 bedrooms and into an adventure they will never forget, but one filled with genuine peril as Hook and his cronies deem all children must die. The basic bones of the story though are intact, and no one will accuse this of jumping the shark, it is just more of an emphasis on the idea of connection with each other and forging our own individual paths. It is an interesting touch and Law plays it with evil dread and even some poignancy before it all ends. All of this gives an explanation to who Hook once was, but that makes this defiantly not your father’s ‘Peter Pan’. It is tough when friends grow apart but that is what happened as James morphed into Captain Hook (Peter had cut of his hand and fed it to an alligator if you recall – and that gator is back here in all its CGI glory). Now it seems Lowery has put more of a Wicked –style rivalry and friendship between Peter and his old schoolmate and bestie James, their bond broken up when James chose a different path than the freewheeling Neverland choice of his friend, who along with those Lost Boys he accumulated, just never wanted to grow up. That said, the real highlight here is watching Jude Law dig into a Captain Hook, or James as we learn he was known in his younger years, and really make him a memorable and unrelenting villain, but one with a new backstory I can’t recall even being hinted at before.
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