A little girl with a mouth full of fangs on the back of her neck, she needs to lift her hair and stuff it from her neck to eat chicken legs. A little boy who has to wear a veil when eating, or flies will fly out of his mouth. The beautiful girl wearing a pair of super invincible metal shoes will fly once she takes off the metal shoes. And a pair of grimace twins.
Miss Pei is the big boss of this place, dignified and elegant, and can manipulate time. In order to protect these peculiar children, she set up a "loop", and every twenty-four hours, everything would return to the way it was before.
The hero returns to the day on September 3, 1943, the "cycle" created by Miss Pei. At the same time, there are many such "cycles" in the world, and there are other managers like Miss Pei. There are also vicious villains. Jack's adventure on the island officially begins, no more spoilers.
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Virgo director Tim Burton, who has made many well-known movies. Such as "Batman", "Edward Scissorhands", "Alice in Wonderland", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".
The movie "Miss Pei's Fantasy Castle" could not be seen as Tim Burton's work before the protagonist Jack entered the island. It was not until the plot unfolded on the island that it was discovered that there were actually many elements that belonged to Tim Burton.
For example, Emma walks Jack through the garden, next to the trees trimmed into various sculptural shapes, reminding you of Edward Scissorhands in minutes.
The way in which Miss Pei controls the time scene is exactly the same as when the White Queen takes Alice back to the past in "Alice in Wonderland 2".
Tim Burton has never forgotten his obsession with innocence. To borrow an old Chinese saying, believe it or not, and this is what he often does in his films.
Eating a child's eyeballs in "Miss Pei" turns the monster back into a human form. Jack, who believes in "bedtime fairy tales", becomes the only one who can see invisible monsters. He showed no doubt about his favoritism towards children.
The previous cooperation between Tim Burton and Johnny Depp has always won countless praises. I think the bottom line is that Depp has an "old urchin" naive temperament, which does not match the theme that Tim Burton wants to present in the film. combine.
The imaginative imagination is only possessed by teenagers. To present this kind of imaginative grotesque, it requires more level. Tim Burton is an immortal kid and a movie geek.
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In addition to the plot and the director, please allow me to hold my inner nympho, Amway and Eva Green, who plays Miss Pei.
With unique temperament and elegant demeanor, the screen virgin "Dream of Paris" was nominated for Best Actress at the European Film Awards. He also collaborated with Depp on Sombra. I didn't think she was amazing before.
It's just that in "Miss Pei's Fantasy Castle", her makeup, styling, character design, and acting skills are all too in line with her own temperament, magnifying her beauty several times.
Especially the look in her eyes when she watched Jack leave, it was full of charm and profound meaning, which made people unable to bear the aftertaste.
There are praises and criticisms. I want to disparage the expression on the male lead Jack, no matter what happens, it's calm. There is not much difference between joy and sorrow.
The Twilight Girls, who were once world-famous for their facial paralysis-style performances, have made a comeback and shined brightly in Ang Lee's new film "Billy Lynn". And Jack's actor Asa is not in the usual way, and his expression is not even as rich as when he debuted at the age of seven.
Jack and his CP Emma, you have absolutely no idea why they fell in love with each other. Even if they are in a relationship without knowing where to go, they need to communicate a little bit. The feelings came for no reason, so it seemed a little unreasonable for Jack to rush back to find Emma in the end, obviously their feelings were not up to that.
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Although there are problems, in the final analysis, it is still a top-notch work by Tim Burton. I don't know if this movie will make him lose the bad reviews of "Soul Shadow" and "Alice" in front of him.
Some people say that this movie is the fantasy version of "X-Men", I refuse. The superpowers of the X-Men are used for fighting, and the superpowers of the characters in "Miss Pei" are just to boil water for all kinds of radishes and make toys to pass the time. One is for force and the other is for farming.
The fantasy in Tim Burton's films has always had a warm core. His focus is not on the contest between good and evil, but on how the protagonist returns to his original self, how to grow, and how to reconcile with the world. Therefore, the weakness of the love scene in "Miss Pei" does not affect me giving it a high score, because the clues throughout are Jack and his grandfather.
In the end, Jack killed the monster in 1943, and when he returned home, he found his grandfather alive, and the feeling that had always cared about him was finally settled. to pursue other things.
Believe me, this movie with fantasy as the shell, warmth as the core, and childlike innocence as the theme is still worth your movie tickets to go to the theater on December 2.
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