Movie Critic: Isra Ahmed
Movie Genre: Adventure and Fantasy
Opening Date: September 30, 2016
Director: Tim Burton
Movie Title: Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
Ontario Movie Rating: PG
Starring: Asa Butterfield, Eva Green, Samuel L. Jackson
General age of people in the theatre: 20-30s

Tobacco use: Quite a bit especially in the first half of the movie Mostly used pipes/cigars

Summary: The main character is a teenage boy who fit in at school and thus doesn’t have any friends. This movie takes us on a journey where he finds out the reason why he never fit in and becomes part of a family of other kids who have incredible powers just like him.

Review: This film is good and I liked the effects and the scenery is quite stunning. Most of the actors are okay but Eva Green, Ella Purnell and Finlay MacMillan gave the most memorable performances. The first half is quite slow and doesn’t do a good job at going deep into any of the character’s personalities or making them more relatable either so it’s hard to overlook. I didn’t like how it only picks up an hour into
the movie. The ending felt rushed as well and left majority of the audience feeling confused. Overall, I would recommend just staying home to watch this movie.

Tobacco Presence:
Miss Peregrine (Eva Green) does all the smoking and she is the face of the movie as well as the one responsible for taking care of the children. In the scenes with smoking, she is on the grounds of their large home and one of the children were usually nearby which bothered me because that smoke is obviously bad for their health and their caretaker should not be so close to them while smoking. The children don’t show any reaction but at certain times it is literally in their face so that just made me want to get up and wave it away for them.
The brand of cigars is not shown and it’s usually covered by her fingers or the smoke so it was hard to tell what she was smoking. I believe it was very unnecessary and only there to make her seem older, wiser and more authoritative. The movie would have been better without the smoking and would have probably forced Tim Burton to give her character more depth which would have been better for the whole movie.
Unfortunately, the movie does not show any negative health effects or consequences and it makes the smoking look like a normal thing that older and wiser people do. In my opinion, that is very wrong.