10 Recent Critical Duds We All Saw Coming

This one always seemed doomed. All of Disney's live-action remakes are unnecessary, yet a Peter Pan one was even more pointless than all the others. There's already an excellent live-action version of the story in the form of 2003's Peter Pan, so why bother? And then, the trailers arrived and the film looked like a visually drab, soulless retelling that turned Neverland into what seemed like an abandoned Scottish island, instead of a magical land where anything was possible. 

Even if Peter Pan & Wendy is arguably the best movie on this list, it still isn't particularly great. It got a ton of backlash from the anti-woke bridge both before and after release, and as usual, those people missed the point in their critiques. The film fails not because it was 'too woke', but because it always seemed to be at war with itself. 

It would appear that director David Lowery wanted to do more of an adult, experimental adaptation, and some of that vision does definitely come through - for one, this is perhaps the only Peter Pan film that actually acknowledges just what an awful person Pan really is. 

At the same time, the picture is also trying (or maybe forced) to be a remake that copies the plot beats of a much-loved Disney classic in a thoroughly lazy manner, so the whole thing just feels confused. Furthermore, the pacing is rushed, the visuals are wildly inconsistent, and Jude Law is chronically miscast as Captain Hook. 

Watch the 2003 film instead.