Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children · reception & legacy

How Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children has been received, argued over, and remembered.

The arc

Landed in 2016 to shrugging, mixed reviews as another entry in the 'late Burton slump' narrative, and it hasn't been dramatically reclaimed — though some defenders now rank it as the most watchable thing he made in that whole 2010s stretch, mostly on the strength of Eva Green.

What's debated

It's a standing exhibit in the eternal 'when exactly did Tim Burton lose it — and did he ever get it back?' debate, with a side dispute over whether the film wastes a perfectly cast Eva Green.

Its footprint

It arrived at the fag end of the post-Potter/Hunger Games YA-adaptation gold rush and is often filed as one of that boom's last gasps; among cinephiles its main afterlife is fueling 'Eva Green is the queen of genre cinema and deserves better material' posts.

Where it stands

A minor late-Burton entry — not hated, not loved, mostly remembered by Eva Green devotees and people cataloguing the YA-adaptation era.

Named by the director

Influences Tim Burton has publicly named — the director's own word, distinct from the inferred lines of influence.

• Jason and the Argonauts (1963) — Burton said the film's stop-motion-flavored skeleton battle was a deliberate tribute to this Harryhausen classic.
• Ray Harryhausen — Burton, a lifelong Harryhausen devotee, cited him as the inspiration behind the film's animated-skeleton sequence.