A fairy tale itself

Rating: 9/10 (18 March 2005)

This movie totally touched me. It's not the Titanic-type drama touching you on a tragic level. It's a fairy tale in itself, with it's theme, plot and images touching me like hardly any movie has before. The only other movies that have touched me in a similar way were Amélie and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Similar to both of the afore mentioned, the composition of images in Finding Neverland is helping a great deal to create the atmosphere of the movie. The movie is so fairy tale like to me mostly because it just feels like it's all playing in your imagination, with bright and colorful pictures, in front of the advancing and serious plot, but with childish interludes, catching the spirit of J.M.Barrie's Peter Pan play.
For the actors, they don't really shine but do a good job at playing what was demanded of them. Notable exceptions are the Barrie kids, who stroke me as absolutely perfect for their roles. Johnny Depp's go at the very English accent is a good one too. The score, the cinematography, the jokes, the dialogue... Everything is perfect or not even average enough to spoil this great movie for me.