Peter Rabbit

I thought this movie was perfectly fine. I didn't read the books growing up, so I guess I can't really speak for accuracy or if it has the same spirit, but I enjoyed it. There is also some good use of CGI and voice acting. It's sweet, pretty short, and absurd, and I personally like some absurdity. I also liked the song at the end. It's really just safe, harmless family-friendly fun. It could have been much worse.

Disclaimer: Soft spot for bunnies, could watch them run around all day, so biased. Honestly, this had a few really great laughs that I rank among the best so far this year; jokes that made me genuinely laugh out loud. It succumbs to some tired kids movies clichés, but it didn't seem to matter to me because I was having so much fun and when it was over I was disappointed. A little dark, clever, beautifully mixes live action and animation. Also has emotional depth. I realize I'm an adult.

My 5-year-old loved it. My main issues were that Peter was pretty obnoxious, and at one point in the movie it's not clear who you're supposed to be rooting for. Not that I wouldn't normally mind that, except for the fact that this seems to be more aimed at children who don't over-analyze things the way I do.

I don't know that I've ever experienced a movie that I would describe as "meta to the point of exhausting", but that's how I would describe this. It's good for a movie to know what it is, but this winked at you every 5 seconds. It just took me a bit by surprise. The movie was middling but mostly enjoyable, occasionally shockingly dark, and I bump it up a little bit because of the reaction it engendered from its core audience: every child in the theatre laughed and had fun. Mission accomplished.

It was an enjoyable movie. Nothing amazing but nothing horrible.

Peter Rabbit could have been a disaster, but I wound up having a decent time with it. It's too thinly plotted and its characters are too shallow to do much beyond be a semi-pleasant distraction, but there are certainly worse things than that. And when there are some laughs, a couple of decent slapstick action sequences, and good vocal performances--you know what? I'll take it.

Great fun for the whole family... I don't think they balanced what adults would laugh at and what the kids would as well as (say) the brilliant Shrek or this year's competition Paddington 2, but - judging by the laughter from whole families in the cinema where I was - there is something for everyone to enjoy, especially the young ones... Oh, and unlike some, I thought Corden was reaqlly good as the voice of Peter. Overall, certainly worth a watch for kids of all ages :)

"Peter Rabbit" starts off cute, but slowly descends into cheesy annoyance. I know the target group is children and it couldn't appeal neither to me, nor to the kid in me. In my opinion, it irritates more than it entertains.

Funny but not quite good

"Paddington 3", except Paddington had a "species change operation". Playful children's story modified a little too much for modern viewers to capture the pure charm of these animals. Kids will still love it.

There is seriously a good joke every fifth minute (most of then aimed at adults). Sometimes too busy being anarchistic but still a winner. Gleeson is perfect.

OK family film. Peter was a lot more annoying than in the books. For some reason the soundtrack consisted of numerous Vampire Weekend songs.

Rose Byrne looked fine as always. Peter was hard to root for. Neat twist to have the birds cover popular songs. Some gags got old. Amazing CG bunnies. Fav scene: guy getting electrocuted over and over again.

Obnoxious, puerile and crass Potter adaptation is a complete misfire on all levels and is as good an advertisement for rabbit pie as I've ever seen; the sanctimonious, nauseating sentimentalising of Peter and his friends gets things off to a bad start and it never improves; Byrne in particular gives an uncharacteristically heavy-handed and mannered performance. At least the character animation is relatively well done.

It had a few funny scenes but was too stupid to enjoy.

ngl, this would have landed a lot better if the movie went ham on the cartoony slapstick shenanigan's and just gone full Looney Tunes on the characterization, source material be damned. But instead the movie wants us to sympathize with some boring ass chud who's forced into this lame, trite romance with a bunch of leads who are forced into this lame moralizing. Like man, if you're gonna deviate from these books at least do so in a way that's fun and hilarious and not this lame shit.

Peter Rabbit is a fun children's film for the Easter period but it's more enduring for adults. It's harmless and watchable but it is not what I expected. Whereas the source material is light hearted, quaint and somewhat melancholy, this film adaption is much more mischievous, slapstick and tonally this is a huge shift from the Beatrix Potter books. James Corden also feels jarringly out of place as Peter Rabbit and the humour is hit and miss. But children will certainly be entertained and amused.

B

Intensely irritating, with Tom & Jerry-esque cartoon violence which felt quite over the top for a kids movie. I'm tired of hack children's entertainment that assumes child = idiot so why bother having a plot. Rubbish in pretty much every respect.

I grew up with the books and the animated series, and while I normally try to look past my biases, I simply cannot here. The only commonality between this film and the source material is the names. The film suffers from a lack of consistent internal logic masquerading behind fourth-wall-breaking narration. The CGI is good, though too reminiscent of Kangaroo Jack for my taste. Everything in the movie, including the soundtrack, is a mixture of hammy and obnoxious.

I don’t know how this movie didn’t get more love. It was funny and had so much charm! A must watch for families or if you just need a pick me up. Reminds me a lot of Paddington (and not just because it takes place in England)

This movie is a bit all over. It's cute and funny in places, but then it's kind of odd and the jokes fall flat in other places. It is a movie that just has a strange feeling about it, the romantic elements don't really work (I mean did Bea not see the gigantic electric fence to realize Thomas was still trying to kill the rabbits and not be friendly to them), and then the question of whether people can understand the animals too, it's just a bit odd really.

Corden is a horrid piece of casting, but then when isn’t he? It’s a charmless, empty children’s film, that sadly has barely even the faintest echo of its source material resounding within it.

I was surprised by this. I'm on the fence about Gleeson's performance, but I liked many of the jokes.

Kids would probably find this movie amusing. This film drags at times and most of the human characters are not interesting. Some of the animals are cute but also some are annoying. Overall this film is disappointing.

There's a decent screenplay nestled away in here but it's buried beneath the worst tropes of bad modern kids films and some truly awful slapstick. Some of the self aware gags are funny but many of them are too winky for their own good.

I thought this was actually pretty funny

Like all of Will Gluck's movies, this one's biggest issue lies with blending humor and sincerity. Its humor mainly comes from entitled murderous asshole rabbits inflicting violence resulting in cartoonish slapstick. Which is fine. I like slapstick. And cartoonishness. But then all of a sudden, I'm supposed to take all the behavior seriously, like in a somewhat realistic context of consequences and accountability? I imagine that sort of thing might be confusing for kids as well...

Watched on 14/2/2018 (In-Cinema).

Harmless, simple, silly. Domhnall Gleeson delivers as he usually does, but there's not much more to it. Oh and, please, stop casting James Corden in movies... please.

I mean, Peter and co. are just kind of obnoxious (the incessant peppy pop-song soundtrack underneath all their escapades doesn't help). I was legitimately a little concerned for a while there that Peter's escalating actions would go unchecked and even praised by the film. It didn't happen, fortunately, but I still would've preferred a film focused on the ultimately tragic McGregor and his interesting relationship with Bea instead of the mostly annoying lead rabbit (only a few of his jokes land).