TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

ouivalerie This movie is so REAL, and so ACCURATE. I met a situation in life that parallels it EXACTLY. If the writers only knew it's as if spirits take over their bodies and make them duplicate, right down to the dude who is Peter who smokes Clove cigarettes and dropped out of everything and worked for the Carnival before he went to jail and I even know Hook and all about his secret life, Hook (came from a divorce, the dad died, he was adopted by a wealthy man) is so pompous because he likes to play rich and lost a lot being wrong, and he works hard at good things and gets nowhere because he's bad in some areas, and doesn't know it, and Peter... he only likes weird chicks, and drugs and there's a few more women than tinkerbelle but this is only a movie! And well it's more than that, it's one hell of a message....ouivalerie@yahoo.com

mrlizard-3 As many others have commented,this movie lacks as much as it has to offer. The cinematography is poor and the editing is worse. Long transitional scenes seem to have been added just get get characters from one place to another while padding the screen time.Many have mentioned that t he acting was poor, but Wil Wheaton is a fairly good actor and he simply doesn't shine, here. So I think I would blame it on the direction. The story is the strongest reason to see this. It holds pretty close to the original Peter Pan, up to a point. It has a certain "What if Peter Pan Took Place in the Real World" point of view but still seems so bizarre, since the lost boys act so immature even though they've grown up physically. These guys are in their 20's and still act like little boys (Can Wendy be our mother?. And most of them look a bit too much like male models, which I found distracting. However, the bizzarreness is what attracted me to this film. That and the fact that I got to see Wil Wheaton acting out a role far from Wesley Crusher or the mentally ill homeless guy on CSI. This one's wort a look-see.. if you appreciate low-budget, badly acted, badly photographed movies with a twist.

rottenrhyma First off - save yourself the time and don't watch this movie - it's painful. If you are on the fence, and need to know why it's awful, and aren't afraid of a few spoilers, then read on.That being said, This film attempts to create a modern-day version of the original Peter Pan, with some very bizarre substitutions:a theme park called Neverland instead of an imaginary NeverlandJanitors in exchange for PiratesA Janitor obsessed with S&M in exchange for Hookdrug-obsessed run-away kids living in a secret room in the theme park instead of, well, normal kids living in a fairy landcocaine instead of pixie dust ... you get the idea ...The film attempts to draw strange, inexplicable parallels between the story of Peter Pan, and the lives of a number of multi-cultural children who were adopted by horrible parents, and who eventually meet another group of horribly misguided kids who also hate their parents, but have an escape. This escape is what they refer to as "Neverland", which is actually a theme park, where they do all sorts of drugs and just have fun. I wish there was more to it, but that's pretty much it.I think the deeper meaning that was *attempted* by this film was to ultimately produce a grandiose "Ah-HA!" for teenagers and people who have major issues with their parents – the message being that 'they're not as bad as you think, and neither is being grown up'. It tried to accomplish this goal by showing how screwed up the lives of these delusional run-away kids really are. Unfortunately, as the ancient proverb goes, the path to failure is filled with good intentions. Such is the case with Neverland - a movie that is about as incoherent as it is shallow, slow-moving, and just plain boring.If you liked Lost in Translation, you'll love this movie. Then again, if you liked lost in Translation, there's something seriously wrong with you. On the strength of the IMDb and Ebert and Roeper ratings and reviews, I watched both Lost in Translation, and Neverland, and in both cases I found myself 20 minutes in saying "man, I cannot wait until these bizarre plot lines and totally random scenes start making sense" and in both cases, they simply never did, continuing on their merry path to obscurity.Humorously, I actually thought this movie until just recently, was actually called "Finding Neverland" and didn't realize that it was in fact, a year-old movie called "Neverland". Only just now did I realize that Johnny Depp was supposed to be in "Finding Neverland" and that of course he was not in what I just watched, so I searched for the term "Neverland" and found this. I read the plot outline, and sure enough, here it is.I think one scene in the movie really sums everything up nicely - it was about a 3-minute series of shaky, blurry, bizarre camera angles watching a car drive around - at which point, I nearly turned it off, but I just couldn't do it - I had to find out if it would ever begin to make sense, and it just..never..did...

brendaradogna I am not a fan of a lot of low budget independent films, but I really liked this one. I think it could have been better if the budget was bigger, but I think the filmmakers did a great job regardless. It had a very involving mood and engaging performances. My friend who watched it with me complained that it was slow, but after a while she was really into it just like I was. THe cast is beautiful, the writing is fantastic (especially the way the original story is tied in to the new setting), and the music is great. I thought the movie was very modern and cutting edge and I would like to see more movies that offer a new and original point of view like this one did. (I ended up buying the movie on Amazon, so I rate this one pretty high - 9 out of 10.)