There’s a new world coming.

With a new take on the book, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, or the Peculiar Children movie for those with a distaste for longer names, Tim Burton has highlighted the creepy aspects of this strange new world. Though a warning to those strictly loyal to the books, the movie is fantastic but not at following the plotline.

The Peculiar Children movie follows young Jake (Asa Butterfield) left in the aftermath of his grandfather’s death and to Jake’s horror, the monsters are real. In hopes of closure, this leads him to an island in Wales where he meets Emma (Ella Purnell) and Miss Peregrine (Eva Green).

Like I said before, the movie doesn’t exactly follow the book and it loses its stride after about halfway through, though Burton does a fantastic job interpreting Ransom Rigg’s book into something new. It lacks in some of the suspense the book trilogy is overflowing with and having taken this into account, Burton finds a conclusion for the conflict by the end of the movie, suggesting there might not be a sequel.

What the movie lacks in follow through, it appropriately makes up with eerie aspects, character highlights, and special effects. There were moments where the children’s abilities, their peculiarities were on show and Burton wonderfully pulls off the peculiar part of it. Between the children that could float and the reanimated corpses, the movie was cute and creepy. As a huge fan of the book, I was disappointed to hear some of the changes that were made to the movie script, though now I can definitely appreciate how the changes affected the story-line. There was enough screen time give to showcase their talents and backgrounds, giving a more personal touch to the movie and drawing the audience in.

All in all, the movie was amazing. Maybe a bit much for some young kids who would miss the underlying meanings and lack the ability to admire the creepiness for its value. (In all seriousness, you might wanna think before bringing your young kids, you know, just in case.)

But for everyone else, I definitely recommend this movie.

Rating: A+