Don't get me wrong, I love the song. But what is it doing in a movie about Peter Pan? It seems like such a bizarre, random choice, not to imply that ANY musical number with thousands of slaves and Captain Hook singing together would make sense. I couldn't watch much more after that, so, assuming it's explained later in the film, would anyone care to fill me in?
shareFood for thought... As a radical, many would say too radical departure from the classic stories, they went all out, it is actually explained. Blackbeard talks about his miners coming from all times along with making a distopian egalitarian statement about the miners. In this one could posit Neverland is a place that exists outside of our space time continuum and thus why not have "Smells Like Teen Spirit." If the people there where plucked from all different times in our history... It's rather brilliant, and one of the first things that actually struck me as intriguing... The problem is without that snippet of words it's easy to not get it and integrating theoretical physics into the working of a plot assuming people would get it may have been not the smartest move on behalf of the writers without hanging a brighter lantern on it... But just think of Neverland as not of this dimension and disconnected from a fixed point in space time thus the music choices are awesome! It adds another layer to the movie...
shareWhat drugs are you on? You're rambling doesn't make any sense lol. Maybe to you.
shareActually it makes plenty of sense to an educated mind. Don't accuse people of drugs just because you can't understand what they're saying, who knows they might be the next Einstein.
shareActually I consider myself fairly well educated and the commenter just wanted to look like he was so highly educated as to throw a bunch high minded sentences to say basically "You are so much less educated than me please go away".
They who give up liberty to
obtain a temporary safety deserve
neither liberty or safety
I feel like I can't understand what you're saying WITHOUT drugs, lol.
shareSomeone for some insane reason or another wanted it in the film. It does not work on any level and I truly feel that whoever gave permission for its use has done this song a huge disservice.
shareThey are trying to be like "A Knight's Tale". Didn't work.
The "whoever" that gave them permission for its use is that gold-digger Courtney Love.
I'm seeing for the first time and I was taken back by how ridiculous and inappropriate it was. This movie was a good thought but very poorly delivered
shareSo terrible. I wanted to turn the movie off because of it.
shareNot to mention it was already done -- to much greater affect -- in Moulin Rouge. It just made me nostalgic for Moulin Rouge (or hearing the actual song), and didn't do one thing for this movie. All it did was remind me to ask myself why I was watching this movie in the first place.
shareSo Courtney Love can make more money violating the creative dignity of her dead husband. It's disgraceful.
shareThe song is about teenage angst. Which, what do you think the boys in Neverland are feeling?
shareThe song is about teenage angst. Which, what do you think the boys in Neverland are feeling?
So what? How does that justify the use of the song?Could Korn have worked as well?
shareThey also use a Ramones song "Blitzkrieg Bop"
shareWhy does everyone read too much into the little things. Why not just sit back and enjoy the show. It added a different tone to the movie and an extreme dynamic. It starts off and you think it gonna be one of those really corny movies but the movie actually has good value. And for crying out loud it's a kids movie, most kids these days wouldn't even recognize the song instead thinking it was made for the movie.
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They just thought it would be quirky and fun to have a famous rock song in their whimsical adventure movie instead of something more traditional. That's it.
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