NBC's adaptation of Peter Pan live I thought would be something cool. In my assumption before watching it, I thought the whole production was going to be filmed front of a live audience. But unfortunately, this is not the case. The whole thing is filmed on a cheaply made sound- stage that is easily forgetful in the end.
Allison William's Peter Pan is all good fun and she is actually trying the best she can to make this performance work. But Christopher Walken....
Jesus. Christopher Walken is terrible! But it's laughably terrible. It's obvious he was miscast in the role and it could have gone to other better performers. His so called "Singing" is basically him talking normally, with rare occasions of vocals being visible. A weird running gag is that at the end of a song, he holds a note, then the commercials come on, then we get a 5 second snippet of him still holding the note! I don't get how this is suppose to be funny unless they cut to it after the song was over.
The sound-stage is super cheap. It is not what I imagined a Peter Pan musical to be. It feels like I am in more of a Dr. Suess storybook than I am in a Peter Pan musical (but that's just me) now think of the Disney Version. Look at all the sets they could have done. But instead, there are four main sets. The Darling's House, Neverland, The Lost Boy's Hideout and Captain Hook's Ship. You will be seeing so much of these sets throughout the entire production.
But It does not necessarily mean its a bad production. The whole musical is full of good moments that will certainly bring smiles to faces. I like the musical numbers a lot, the characters while uneasily performed are most of the time forgivable and it helps that they are trying to make something good.
Peter Pan Live is a cheap production and it shows because you can obviously see wires holding the actors together and it looks like a elementary school production. But there is obvious faith going on that keeps them holding the musical together. I might be interested in getting the DVD, but not now.
65/100 C+
Allison William's Peter Pan is all good fun and she is actually trying the best she can to make this performance work. But Christopher Walken....
Jesus. Christopher Walken is terrible! But it's laughably terrible. It's obvious he was miscast in the role and it could have gone to other better performers. His so called "Singing" is basically him talking normally, with rare occasions of vocals being visible. A weird running gag is that at the end of a song, he holds a note, then the commercials come on, then we get a 5 second snippet of him still holding the note! I don't get how this is suppose to be funny unless they cut to it after the song was over.
The sound-stage is super cheap. It is not what I imagined a Peter Pan musical to be. It feels like I am in more of a Dr. Suess storybook than I am in a Peter Pan musical (but that's just me) now think of the Disney Version. Look at all the sets they could have done. But instead, there are four main sets. The Darling's House, Neverland, The Lost Boy's Hideout and Captain Hook's Ship. You will be seeing so much of these sets throughout the entire production.
But It does not necessarily mean its a bad production. The whole musical is full of good moments that will certainly bring smiles to faces. I like the musical numbers a lot, the characters while uneasily performed are most of the time forgivable and it helps that they are trying to make something good.
Peter Pan Live is a cheap production and it shows because you can obviously see wires holding the actors together and it looks like a elementary school production. But there is obvious faith going on that keeps them holding the musical together. I might be interested in getting the DVD, but not now.
65/100 C+