Pan
Warner Bros. | Release Date: October 9, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
36
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
13
Negative:
15
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Slant MagazineEric HendersonOct 8, 2015
Whatever drugs director Joe Wright may or may not have been on when he wrestled Pan to the ground, pulverizing the material into a quivering mound of monkey-bread dough, you can trust that they were synthetic. Not a single emotional moment in this entire origin story for J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Captain Hook, and Neverland feels organic. Read full review
38
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanOct 6, 2015
Writer Simon Fuchs begins with a reasonable idea – we’re all likely to be curious about the origins of Peter Pan – and does unreasonable things ever after. Read full review
37
Washington PostStephanie MerryOct 8, 2015
Pan doesn’t deliver on its own promise. The movie doesn’t so much enhance our understanding of the flying boy as it demonstrates how little thought went into crafting his back story. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriOct 9, 2015
Careens helplessly between the garish and the generic. Read full review
30
The New York TimesA.O. ScottOct 8, 2015
The dominant emotion in Pan is the desperation of the filmmakers, who frantically try to pander to a young audience they don’t seem to respect, understand or trust. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesOct 7, 2015
Ill-conceived from any number of angles, this Peter Pan origin story, scripted by Jason Fuchs (Ice Age: Continental Drift), plays topsy-turvy with J.M. Barrie’s beloved characters. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthySep 19, 2015
What fun there is falls to Jackman, who gives the grand old man of pirate characters plenty of fresh and unusual wrinkles and emerges better than the others simply by virtue of playing a two-dimensional, rather than one-dimensional, figure. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter TraversOct 9, 2015
Joe Wright's origin story of Peter and the lost boys has to be the dimmest, deadliest take ever on J.M. Barrie's Pan myth. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleOct 8, 2015
A complete washout, a joyless, pointless and fundamentally idiotic enterprise. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsOct 8, 2015
The most joyless revisionism since Disney's "The Lone Ranger. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comSusan WloszczynaOct 8, 2015
To begin with, the very premise feels off. Peter Pan isn’t a superhero and doesn’t really need an origin story, especially one that opens at a London orphanage for boys during the Blitz and borrows heavily from the “Oliver Twist” handbook. Read full review
25
HitfixDrew McWeenyOct 8, 2015
With no clear purpose in telling the story and no real focus in the actual storytelling, Pan never gets off the ground. Read full review
25
The PlaylistNick SchagerSep 24, 2015
Pan is a cacophonous assault on the senses, all computerized cinematographic mayhem and deafening noise, and its hurried pace extinguishes any genuine character development. Read full review
15
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeSep 19, 2015
A thoroughly unpleasant experience. Read full review
0
New York PostLou LumenickOct 8, 2015
This joyless, 10-megaton bomb fails in just about every imaginable way, as well as some you couldn’t possibly imagine. Read full review
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