I Watched Peter Pan & Wendy So You Don’t Have To

So Disney’s latest live-action remake that no one asked for came out this week in the form of Peter Pan & Wendy. As of today the film has gaslit, gatekept, and girlbossed its way to a 15% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 4.2/10 on IMDB. Let’s break it down.

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[charlesmartinjr]

I watched it with my daughter today. She turned it off before it was even over. Disney, when a 10-year-old thinks your Peter Pan movie is boring and stupid, you've failed.

[xavier]

Wendy's whole character is based on being a wonderfully nurturing, smart woman. Making women more like men is not empowering. It's erasing women.

[heinzelmadchen]

Wendy is gentle, nurturing, soft spoken and loving, she is one of the most feminine characters, she reminds the boys that they can't stay there forever and wakes them up from their trance like state without being harsh or mean. She embodies the mother and makes them miss home. All the kids see a mother in her. She's pure and kind. That's why I like her so much. Why is that apparently not good enough? That's divine feminine. Why are women only good enough when they act like men?

[VAOdin]

So basically they took a character that cared about strangers and turned her into a character that wants to justify only caring about herself? What a great moral to the story.

[stillaboveground]

Wendy blames her brothers for the mirror she broke.
No accountability... How very modern of her.

[netaniamullings]

You know the movie is bad, when it went straight to Disney Plus, not movie theaters.

[chi]

Actually the lost boys being all boys does matter because lore wise only boys were able to be “lost” because girls had more common sense and were smarter.

This is why Wendy was so important, she represented maturity and a feminine loving perspective that the boys never had.

[RedaDoodles]

In the original, Wendy has no issues with Tinker Bell. She even compliments on her beauty and defends her when Peter decides to banish her forever.

[AmandaS-simh]

The original Wendy was a girl boss. She created so much peace and love without raising a fist, a sword, or her voice. Want a hard job? Be patient and loving to a pack of wild children

[justinm]

If a woman can't be powerful without beating men or degrading men... She is not strong, just an agenda. A strong woman shows you she is strong without having to tell you.

[mrnateford]

Their Wendy is self-centered. They also contradict themselves:
"You're not all boys." "So?" "I guess it doesn't matter."
"This magic belongs to no boy."
But you said it doesn't matter...

[izandevainmyheart]

My kids were screaming at my sister to turn it off. It was a tortuous perversion of an amazing story. We just now watched 2003’s version and we’re so happy. Every detail was so well thought out. Each character is forever irreplaceable. So much emotion.

[rafaelatenorio]

wendy was supposed to be a feminine girl and that’s what made her such an incredible character, it is so sad to see that today girls need to act like boys to be deemed as good characters

[Iisdabest]

It's ironic. In the original story, Wendy serves as a feminine counterbalance yet still upholds a sort of leadership role. This version basically dismisses any power that femininity holds and claims that girls/women can only be "super" if they behave exactly the way that boys do, rather than embracing their own innate capabilities.

[EthalaRide]

They changed Wendy from being a literal mother figure as she is supposed to be, and as is the WHOLE POINT of the story! They fail because they made Wendy INTO Peter Pan.
Peter Pan is the spirit of childhood freedom and adventure, the boy who never grows up, constantly being pursued by Captain Hook, the spirit of bitter adulthood, cruel responsibility, and the _Fear of Death_ *tick tick tick* awareness of one's mortality! Wendy is the only girl _chosen_ to come to Neverland BECAUSE of her mothering nature, because she knows stories to tell the lost boys, Lost Boys who desperately want a mother, and learns that she wants that life of her OWN not just playing pretend and that growing up and having the authentic experience of adulthood *_IS WORTH IT._*
But instead this Wendy has to validate her insistence that the right path for her is to spend her days going on adventures, only to write about them and making no deeper connections as she is _happy_ to die completely alone. (projecting much, writers?) *JUST LIKE PETER PAN.* An admirable yet tragic figure as he can NEVER grow up and will NEVER understand to enjoy the real world on deeper levels like Wendy does, and like the FORMER Lost Boys do at the end, as they get a happy ending by finding their purpose and growing up to LIVE.
When you're a child, you want to be Peter Pan.
When you're growing up, you know you can't.
When you're an _adult, you _*_know you shouldn't be._*

_"To die would be an awfully big adventure."_ -Peter Pan
*_"To LIVE would be an awfully big adventure."_* -J.M. Barrie (as The Narrator at the end of the Play.)

[ebenadams]

I think it's sad that being gentle and loving and kind are now seen as weaknesses. Why can't Wendy retain these qualities and still be depicted as courageous when she needs to be?

[waynemcleod]

It's disgusting that they can't leave the woke agenda out of children's classics. Just let kids be kids. They don't need political pandering.

[Lamber]

That’s crazy because a big character trait of Wendy is that she is motherly. To her brothers and to the lost boys and it makes them want to go home

[charlieneedstherapy]

In this version, Wendy DEFINITELY turned into a "I'm not like other girls" girl 💀

[ekelly]

She hit the nail right on the head! My husband and I were so disappointed. But not surprised. Even my 13 year old girl could see through the bullsh!t. She even got inspired to write her own "alternate scenes" where she took some of the most disappointing parts and rewrote them to be more dynamic and be more in line with the original. 😂