Entetaining

Rating: 7/10 (24 March 2006)

I would never have watched this film if it hadn't had Kate Winslet in it. It was a lot better than I thought it would be. Kate Winslet has to be the top tragedienne in the business today. She was perfect, understating her beauty, and playing the Edwardian mother role wonderfully. Johnny Depp is a phenomenal actor, playing the widest variety of roles. He hit the accent as well as Meryl Streep, never missing a single line in it, yet never overdoing it. The whole thing is kind of creepy nowadays though, in these Michael Jackson times. It is really unseemly for a man to pay too much attention to someone else's sons. The idea, I suppose is that Barrie was a child-man, someone who never wanted to grow up. Well, that's how they used to describe Jackson, too, and of course he named his molestation-hideout, uh, I mean, ranch, Neverland. Kinda weird. Anyway Radha Mitchell looked wonderful, and played her part beautifully as well. It ended up being a really entertaining movie, well worth a place in a Netflix queue. But it's not among the top 150 movies of all time. C'mon.