Starring: Jude Law, Alexander Molony, Ever Anderson, Yara Shahidi, Alyssa Wapanatâhk, Joshua Pickering, Jacobi Jupe, Molly Parker, Alan Tudyk, Jim Gaffigan
OUR RATING: ★★☆☆☆
Story:
Disney+ live-action fantasy adventure directed and co-written by David Lowery. Re-imagining of the 1953 animated classic, Peter Pan & Wendy (2023) centers on Wendy Darling (Ever Anderson), a young girl afraid to leave her childhood home behind, who meets Peter Pan (Alexander Molony), a boy who refuses to grow up. Alongside her brothers, John and Michael (Joshua Pickering and Jacobi Jupe), and a tiny fairy, Tinker Bell (Yara Shahidi), she travels with Peter to the magical world of Neverland. There, she encounters an evil pirate captain, Captain Hook (Jude Law), and embarks on a thrilling and dangerous adventure that will change her life forever.
Best Quotes
Mrs. Darling: [to Wendy] They need me to be their mother, and your father to be their father. But they need you to be their big sister. You give them something that neither of us can. They will follow your lead, so you must be a good leader.
Mrs. Darling: What is it that you’re afraid of, my love?
Wendy Darling: I want things to stay the way they are.
Wendy Darling: Perhaps, I don’t want to grow up.
Mrs. Darling: You can’t stop time, Wendy. It’ll march on whether you like it or not. Just imagine all the things you would miss out on, if you didn’t see where it took you. And all the things the world would miss, if you weren’t there to do them.
Michael Darling: You were flying!
Wendy Darling: How?
Michael Darling: A little bug did it!
Wendy Darling: I don’t think that’s a bug.
John Darling: Well, it’s a…
Peter Pan: She is a fairy. And if I know one thing about fairies, it’s that they don’t take kindly to being called bugs.
John Darling: Are you…
Michael Darling: Are you Peter Pan?
Peter Pan: Were you expecting someone else?
Wendy Darling: I always envisioned you as being…
Peter Pan: Taller?
Wendy Darling: No. Smaller actually.
Wendy Darling: How are you real? I thought you were just a bedtime story.
Peter Pan: Why can’t I be both?
Peter Pan: You stabbed me in the heart.
John Darling: Your heart is in your foot?
Peter Pan: Isn’t yours?
Peter Pan: It’s high time we go.
Wendy Darling: Go where?
Peter Pan: To one place in the entire universe where you can really be yourself. Where there are no rules. No schools. No bedtimes. No mothers and fathers. And most of all…
Wendy Darling: No growing up.
Peter Pan: That most of all.
'You can't stop time. It'll march on whether you like it or not.' - Mrs. Darling (Peter Pan & Wendy) Share on X
Captain Hook: Yes, what?
Pirate: It’s the boy, Captain. It’s Peter Pa…
Captain Hook: Never say his name!
Pirate: Sorry, Captain!
Captain Hook: Smee, make a note. My cabin needs a new door.
Smee: A new door. Yes! Right. Might I say, Captain, that would be your third door this month.
Captain Hook: And it won’t be the last.
Smee: Telescope at hand, Captain.
Captain Hook: Speak not to me of hands, Smee.
Smee: Oh. I see your point.
Peter Pan: It’s Hook!
John Darling: Captain Hook?
Peter Pan: Who else would try to kill me this early in the morning?
Peter Pan: Remember, all pirates are fair game, but leave Hook to me.
'Just imagine all the things you would miss out on, if you didn't see where it took you. And all the things the world would miss, if you weren't there to do them.' - Mrs. Darling (Peter Pan & Wendy) Share on X
Wendy Darling: You must be…
Tootles: Lost Boys.
Birdie: Every last one of us.
Wendy Darling: But you’re not all boys.
Twin: So?
Smee: Well, I rescued the Captain from the sea when he was scarcely taller than yourselves. Of course he weren’t captain then. And he didn’t have a hook. He was just a little lost child, desperate to make it back to these fine shores before he got too old to enjoy them.
Captain Hook: [referring to Peter] He’s going to rescue you?
John Darling: Well, probably.
Michael Darling: Hopefully.
Captain Hook: Hope. Most days, I hate that word. But on this occasion, I wonder.
Wendy Darling: Why is Captain Hook so hateful?
Tootles: Because he grew up.
Twins: And grew up wrong.
'Feel the ground beneath your feet, so that your eyes can find the stars. Hold the past in your heart, but know that where you go from here, it's up to you.' - Tiger Lily (Peter Pan & Wendy) Share on X
Captain Hook: Tide’s rising. Poor little cast aways. Tell me. What will you hold on to? Your hope? Or your breath?
Captain Hook: I’ve found you guilty of being a child. And we can’t have children in Neverland.
Peter Pan: I’ve got to say, it’s not half bad being a pirate.
Captain Hook: Pan!
Peter Pan: It’s far better being me.
Peter Pan: Captain Hook. You’re looking a little worse for wear, old man.
Wendy Darling: I thought that maybe you had…
Peter Pan: Died? Perished? Been blown to bits?
Wendy Darling: Yes!
Peter Pan: Not a chance. I’m quite good at not getting kill…
Captain Hook: [Peter falls as Hook strikes at Peter’s shadow] Got you!
'You find me a child who truly knows the difference between right and wrong. And I'll show you a man who can't remember why it mattered in the first place.' - Captain Hook (Peter Pan & Wendy) Share on X
Captain Hook: All my bad form, I learned from you.
Peter Pan: Don’t flatter yourself. You’ve always been rotten. A stinking, rotten codfish.
Captain Hook: You’ve stabbed me in my heart with your words. For the last time. Now, I will repay in kind with my sword.
Peter Pan: Strike then, if you’ve got the courage. And strike true. For to die, would be an awfully big adventure.
Curly: She’s a Wendy!
Captain Hook: A Wendy. What’s a Wendy?
Wendy Darling: I’m a Wendy. Wendy Moira Angela Darling. And I am from London, England, where gentlemen do not harm children!
Captain Hook: This child is no child. Nor I a gentle man. So, say your goodbyes, Wendy. For you shan’t be seeing him in this world again.
Peter Pan: It was an adventure. Isn’t that what you wanted?
Wendy Darling: Yes, but I didn’t think that meant being shot out of the sky by pirates.
John Darling: Or drowned.
Michael Darling: Or dismembered.
'I think that to grow up, why, it might just be the biggest adventure of all.' - Wendy Darling (Peter Pan & Wendy) Share on X
Peter Pan: I’m Peter Pan. I don’t ever need help.
Wendy Darling: You have a magical fairy that makes you fly. A gaggle of children to do your bidding, with a princess who cleans up after you while you’re off gallivanting with pirates. Do you really think that you could beat Captain Hook on your own?
Peter Pan: This is Neverland. Where nothing ever changes. Least of all, me.
Tootles: It’s not true what Peter says, you know? Some things do change.
Curly: Hook wasn’t always Hook.
Wendy Darling: I don’t know where my home is exactly. Or where I want it to be.
Tiger Lily: You will. The first time I rode out on my own, nitâniskocâpân, my great-great-grandmother, she came to me, and said, “Feel the ground beneath your feet, so that your eyes can find the stars. Hold the past in your heart, but know that where you go from here, it’s up to you.” Sleep tight, Wendy Moira Angela Darling. Then get home safe.
Wendy Darling: [referring to Hook] Why did you start fighting in the first place?
Peter Pan: Because he’s a pirate. And I’m Peter Pan.
Wendy Darling: But surely, it can’t be as simple as that.
Peter Pan: Why not?
Wendy Darling: Because nothing ever is.
Tootles: I wouldn’t mind seeing my mother again.
Peter Pan: Yes, you would. If you went back home, it would be the end of all our fun. All our adventures. All you’d have left is growing up.
Wendy Darling: Hook was a friend of yours, wasn’t he?
Peter Pan: He was my best friend. And the very first Lost Boy.
Peter Pan: [referring to Hook] He sailed away one morning without a word, and left me all alone. When he returned, he’d changed. He was cruel. Evil.
Wendy Darling: Was he though? Or had he just grown up?
Peter Pan: What’s the difference?
Peter Pan: That’s why you mustn’t ever leave. Who knows what you’ll become if you go.
Wendy Darling: What will I become if I stay?
Peter Pan: Nothing. Just be you. Like me.
Peter Pan: I really thought you’d be happy here.
Wendy Darling: Yes, I did too. But Neverland is not exactly what I was expecting. Peter, it’s so much more real.
Peter Pan: Of course it’s real. It’s just a different real. A better real.
Peter Pan: Captain Hook?
Captain Hook: Yes.
Peter Pan: I don’t think I like this adventure.
Captain Hook: I’ve done it. I’ve killed Peter Pan.
Captain Hook: He left out the most important part. I didn’t just leave Neverland.
Wendy Darling: Peter made you go.
Captain Hook: There it is. There’s the sticking point. My once and best friend banished me, all because I missed my…
Wendy Darling: Your mother?
Captain Hook: Yes, my mother.
Captain Hook: Is it so terrible a thing, to miss a mother?
Wendy Darling: No, of course, it’s not.
Captain Hook: Tell that to your dearly departed friend, for he surely thought otherwise. And do you know, after all that, I never did find her. I never made it home.
Wendy Darling: Why come back at all, if Peter hurt you so?
Captain Hook: Because he was my friend. I’d been happy here.
Wendy Darling: You could be happy again.
Captain Hook: No. My time for joy is lost. Everything I could have been has been reduced to this.
Captain Hook: This is what growing up looks like.
Wendy Darling: No. This is what it looks like when you grow up wrong.
Captain Hook: You find me a child who truly knows the difference between right and wrong. And I’ll show you a man who can’t remember why it mattered in the first place.
Captain Hook: My men would lay down their lives for their captain.
Wendy Darling: Yes. But what’s a captain without his ship?
Peter Pan: Miss me?
Captain Hook: More than you’ll ever know.
Captain Hook: Proud and insolent youth, raise your sword.
Peter Pan: Sad and sinister man, one last time.
Captain Hook: Just like old times.
Peter Pan: All your times are old, Captain.
Captain Hook: Do you know, what really hurts about getting old? It’s not the creaking bones, or the dashed dreams, or even the sense of death drawing ever the nearer. It’s knowing your best friend can stare you in the eyes and not recognize you.
Captain Hook: Imagine a Neverland without the two of us. Without our battles. Our brawls. I know without you the fire that fuels me will go out. Without me, you’d have no choice but to…
Peter Pan: Be a real boy?
Captain Hook: No. No. A real boy would have to grow.
Captain Hook: A real boy…
Peter Pan: Would apologize.
Captain Hook: Apologize? For what?
Peter Pan: For hurting you. For being a rotten friend.
Peter Pan: I’m sorry I did what I did, Captain Hook. I’m sorry I hurt you, James.
Captain Hook: You don’t get to do that. No, that’s not how this works. I want you to fight. I need you to fight.
Peter Pan: This isn’t fun anymore.
Captain Hook: It’s not supposed to be fun!
Wendy Darling: Oh, Captain. Grow up.
Peter Pan: Just think happy thoughts.
Captain Hook: Peter. I haven’t got any.
[unable to fly, Hook falls into the sea]
Michael Darling: What’s wrong, Peter?
Peter Pan: [referring to Hook] He was my friend.
Curly: We’re your friends too, Peter.
Slightly: We’re always on your side, Peter.
Wendy Darling: And I think I’m ready.
Mrs. Darling: Ready for what?
Wendy Darling: I’m ready to grow…
Wendy Darling: This was your home?
Peter Pan: It was, once. My mother scolded me one night and told me to grow up. Instead, I climbed out of the window, leapt over the garden wall, and never looked back.
Wendy Darling: Except you did.
Peter Pan: [after admitting he came back because he missed his home and mother] I’m just a story. A story told to any child who’d listen. It never had an ending, until now. Maybe I could still come back to listen to it sometimes.
Wendy Darling: Or you could stay.
Peter Pan: Here?
Wendy Darling: Yes.
Wendy Darling: You know, Peter. After all this, I think that to grow up, why, it might just be the biggest adventure of all. Just think of all the things that could be right around the corner that you’re missing out on. Think of what the world is missing out on with you not being there to do them.
Peter Pan: I don’t think I’m ready.
Wendy Darling: You take care of Peter, and please don’t forget about me.
Tinker Bell: I could never. Wendy, thank you for hearing me.
Captain Hook: [as they’re stranded in the sea] Did you hear that?
Smee: The gulls?
Captain Hook: No!
Smee: Crocodile?
Captain Hook: No!
Smee: What then?
[he looks up to see Peter with Tinker on his flying ship, and they smile at each other]
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