This movie makes no sense.

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1. How could Peter not know he was once Peter Pan? He really doesn't remember flying? Neverland? Captain Hook? Pirates? The lost boys? It was never brought up in conversation?"
It is not unusual for a child to block out memories. He decided he wanted to come back into the world. So he blocked out the memories of his childhood. His foster parents likely encouraged him to forget. Wendy likely didn't tell them he was Peter Pan. So any stories he told would seem like fantasies. As he grew he forgot.

"2. How did Captain Hook know that Peter was going to be in England for Christmas?"

If Hook has been planning his revenge for long he undoubtedly had spies in place. The people of Neverland, especially the higher ranked ones, would know about our world.

"3. How did Tinkerbell know that Peter was in England?"

Most likely, she got wind of Hook's plans and followed him. She didn't need to know the details to decide to do that.

"4. When the kids are kidnapped by Captain Hook and the pirates, how did they manage to get there? They travelled by ship. When they docked, did they hail a cab? How did they even know the address of where they were staying?"

I'm not sure what you are trying to ask here. How did who manage to get where? Hook? He had a ship. It could fly between the worlds. The children? Hook put them on the ship. Hailed a cab where? Hook kept them imprisoned on his ship.

"5. There is no way for someone to consistently think of happy thoughts while simultaneously doing something else. In this case it was flying."

You don't know that. And it is established in the mythology that is one of the keys to flying.

"6. How does Peter Pan (the book) exist in this world? Also, it never jogged Peter's memory."

Because Wendy told her story to J. M. Barrie. Everyone assumes it was fiction. It's likely Peter is only vaguely aware of the book because his foster parents did not encourage it and he wanted to forget.

See next post for 7.

You are a complete nitpicker. Stick with dramas and not anything else, TC. You can't handle anything that isn't like real life obviously.

1. This is explained well in Stephen King's It; the mini series, anyway. As kids grow into adults, they grow out of believing. And the thing is, it didn't just happen to Peter. It also happened to Moira, his wife. Both Peter and Moira moved away, have no recollection of their past and so would have never brought it up. It also seems like they've been away from England for a while and become wrapped up in their ordinary lives, so it's probably not something Wendy would bring up in the occasional phone call.

2. I assumed that Captain Hook has been keeping tabs on the Darling house, just going by the fact that, when Peter returns from Neverland at the end, Smee is pretending to be an ordinary person outside the house and it doesn't really get called into question by anyone.

3. Same as 2.

4. I personally enjoy the vagueness of this. It's intentionally dreamlike so as to keep magic and Hook separate and to tie-in at the end with the kids' and Peter's return, where it almost feels like their time away wasn't real. I also think it's intentional because it requires some knowledge of the book beforehand, creating a kind of partnership between the film and adult viewers who've read it (and those that have read Peter Pan to their kids).

5. I think it's more about having a memory attached to a positive emotion so strong it can sustain for great lengths of time, whether or not one's mind drifts from it or not. You see this when Peter thinks about something else that invokes an equally strong emotion that negates the former positive one and sinks to the ground.

6. This is explained in the film. And again, Peter has grown out of thinking those memories are actual real events and not just exaggerated or dreams.

7. To cover their butts with Moira and Peter, until they had the opportunity to speak to Peter privately. They still never told Moira anything, remember? So they were purposefully keeping her out of the loop.

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8. How does Hook disappear at the end?

9. How did Peter age from a baby to a teen, when no one else aged?

Answer: Peter had a car crash on the way back from the gala and he's in a coma for the rest of the movie.

There is always one explanation for what happens in Peter Pan, to all those who don't understand and ask how did they do this? How did they do that? It's simple .......

























MAGIC!

It is established in the original book that Peter forgets things. They even referenced this in the 2014 live action film a few times. So, I don't think it's a stretch that Peter would have forgotten Never Land after 30 years. The book references the same thing with the lost boys when they too decided to stay in London. eventually they forgot how to fly and lived normal lives. To me, it's actually more of an issue that Tootles remembers as opposed to Peter not remembering.

I agree it doesn’t make any sense.

I don’t think it’s an awful film but the script needed a lot more work, there’s some good moments here but a lot of stuff that doesn’t add up like you’ve pointed out.

I actually think it’s a good premise though and with a stronger script this could have been something fantastic.