Film Review – Pan

Director Joe Wright dented an otherwise inspiring filmmaking career with 2012’s “Anna Karenina,” a visually stunning but DOA adaption of Leo Tolstoy’s celebrated novel. Remaining in a literary mood, Wright (along with screenwriter Jason Fuchs) goes after J.M. Barrie’s world of fairies, lost boys, and pirates with “Pan,” which acts as prequel to “Peter Pan,” providing an origin story because there’s really nothing left to say about Neverland. Gifted an enormous budget, Wright suits up for the biggest feature of his career, and “Pan” certainly looks like a production that spent every penny on spectacle. Big, noisy, and luridly campy, the picture offers no boundaries for Wright’s vision, but the wide open space confuses the talented helmer. This isn’t a bad movie, it’s merely a punishingly permissive one. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com