Tim Burton Is Back With Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children

When I was a kid Tim Burton was one of my favorite directors. When I saw Pee Wee's Big Adventure, his first feature film, I was hooked. He then created a series of flawless movies like Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands. But then came the dark times. I remember it well. It was the horrific Planet of the Apes remake with Marky Mark Wahlberg that signaled the death knell of Tim Burton's talent. He's done a couple of decent ones since then like Big Fish, but most of them are unwatchable. He's become a parody of himself. So, I'm very wary of his latest movie Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. It is based on the bestselling YA book by Ransom Riggs of the same name. It's basically a mix of the X-Men and Harry Potter but even more British. It tells the tale of wide-eyed waif boy Asa Butterfield as an ordinary seeming child who meets a woman running an orphanage for kids with weird abilities. 

I was kind of bored by the trailer. It looks like one of a million YA book adaptations that come out every year. At least if it had Burton's signature style, that would be something special. I'll watch it and judge then but I am very concerned.