The eponymous "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" is based on the writings of Ransom Riggs where it chases the peculiar journey of Jake. The young boy played by Asa Butterfield is a Florida lad who gets limp in the dreary sunlight. His only companion is his grandfather Abe, played by Terence Stamp and is closer to him than to his own father Frank, played by Chris O'Dowd. He loves to hear his grandpa's stories about monsters that he encountered during the war, especially the home where children seem to be odd. I said so because where in the world will you see bees buzzing and hovering all over a boy's head as if they are talking or a girl that can drift like a feather in the wind?
The real story began when Jake went down a rabbit hole and landed on Miss Peregrine's (Eva Green) time loop welcoming him to the year 1943. The beautiful lady has a black-and-blue hair with crazy eyes and a pipe resembling that of Sherlock Holmes grasped between her teeth.
Looking into Ms. Peregrine's asylum, including its dwellers, there really are a lot of weird things going on around it. You might wonder why there are collections of odd things like scientific tools and body parts that will make you shiver and create tingling in the spine. By the way, the movie's director Tim Burton is an artist and a weird one too. It is evident on the props and other out-of-this-world stuff that you will see in the movie.
Jake soon got used to some of the peculiar things around him; including a girl who's back of the head has a gluttony mouth and a boy who can make himself invisible. He still cannot forget the way his grandfather died which according to many died of natural cause. No one believed him when he said that he saw a monster nearby from where his grandfather lay at the time of his death.
Now that he has entered Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, he just proves himself a lamebrain, come to think that he is a hero of the story. He serves as the mediator between the world of reality and the world of peculiarity.
As the story becomes busy, the villainous character of Samuel Jackson as Barron will surface abruptly with visions that come after another. It's like you're looking into a page while turning it so fast and you don't know anymore what's happening. There are women who turned into birds and a boy with a rope tied around a girl's waist that floats in the air like a balloon. The film is rated PG-13 and hopefully it will have a TV series soon.
There are so many things in this movie that makes you think do not exist but true, well, at least in this film. I might say that the movie is exciting and funny in some way. After watching the movie, I'm still in awe and wonder. I recommend it since it's a good movie.
Other characters include Emma (Ella Pumell) as the floating girl, Bronwyn (Pixie Davies) the little girl with great strength, Millard (Cameron) as the invisible boy, Olive (Lauren McCrostie) who can cast fire, and the Odwell brothers who are the Peculiar Twins.
