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Finding Neverland:

4.254.143.86

Posted by tinear on April 6, 2005 at 06:01:06

Since Johnny Depp virtually is in every scene, the movie absolutely rises or falls on his performance.
It falls like a stoned bar-maid at 5 a.m.
To make the character sympathetic and free of ANY doubt as to his true interests in the boys, Depp chose a lifeless, bloodless, androgynous, and fey portrayal.
It doesn't, it cannot, work. Enjoyably watching such a caricature for several hours just is not possible.
One scene was especially weak: four boys, one of whom (of course) is a bit antagonistic and cynical toward him, are treated to Depp dancing with a large hound. The boys are to picture a dancing bear in a carnival. Right.
This scene rings as false as several of those Robin William's class scenes in "Dead Poet's Society," wherein adolescent boys suddenly become awestruck as a 50 yr.-old made an ass of himself.
With the backdrop of the Michael Jackson case (movies don't exist in a vacuum), Neverland almost seems like an apologia for pederasty.

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