Peter Rabbit

Peter Rabbit is a 2018 3D live-action/CGI animated adventure comedy film directed by Will Gluck from a screenplay by Gluck and Rob Lieber, based on the storybooks of the character of the same name created by Beatrix Potter. The film features voice roles played by James Corden, Daisy Ridley, Margot Robbie, and Elizabeth Debicki, and live-action roles played by Domhnall Gleeson, Rose Byrne and Sam Neill. The film premiered on February 3, 2018, at the The Grove and was released on February 9, 2018 in the United States, as well as March 16 in the United Kingdom and March 22 in the Australia. A sequel titled "Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway", was released in Australia on March 25, 2021, in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2021, and in the United States on June 11, 2021, with Will Gluck returning to direct and write the film.

The animation was made by Animal Logic.

Plot
Peter Rabbit and his three sisters -- Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-Tail -- enjoy spending their days in Mr. McGregor's vegetable garden. When one of McGregor's relatives suddenly moves in, he's less than thrilled to discover a family of rabbits in his new home. A battle of wills soon breaks out as the new owner hatches scheme after scheme to get rid of Peter -- a resourceful rabbit who proves to be a worthy and wily opponent.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The film is very mean-spirited, as the McGregors get tortured almost throughout the entire film by the animals.
 * 2) *Mr. McGregor suffers a heart attack and dies, which obviously isn't suitable for a family film. Adding insult to injury, the animals react to his death by trashing his house in a wild party, although Mr. McGregor was responsible for the death of Peter's parents.
 * 3) *A gang of bunnies pelt Tom McGregor with blackberries until he has a near-fatal allergic reaction to them. This has led to many people boycotting the movie due to it being insensitive towards people with food allergies.
 * 4) Very poor jokes, some of which are incredibly inappropriate for a family film or are just plain disturbing or sadistic.
 * 5) *Hitting a person in the groin or smacking into a rake are boringly predictable.
 * 6) Peter Rabbit have been flanderized from the books quite badly. He went from being a friendly rabbit to a psychopath who tries to get rid of someone he hates.
 * 7) A tiresome plot and convoluted storyline, which doesn't really seem to follow the story at all.
 * 8) The film only involves the Rabbits trying to destroy a garden, yet most of the movie boils down to a lot of filler, with almost nothing going on during the movie. The plot itself also suffers from being fairly, mainly due to the fact that there is only weak humor compared to any real character development or interesting concepts.
 * 9) The romance between Thomas and Bea is really played out and follows the exact same format as other rom-coms, from falling in love, to going on a few dates, to the breakup, to the reconciliation.
 * 10) Completely disrespects the original source material close to the point where it is practically an adaptation in-name-only; Peter Rabbit, Mr. McGregor, and other characters all act nothing like their original counterparts or designs.
 * 11) The scenes are just filler and sometimes reused such as the animals having a wild party at Mr. McGregor's house after the latter's death.
 * 12) The morals in the film hardly get any screen-time, rendering them pointless.
 * 13) The film abandons the timeless, "slice of life" feel of the books to cram in toilet humor and pop-culture references in an attempt to be hip and current to children.
 * 14) The infamous Allergy Bullying scene offended people with a certain allergy, which is not funny and spawned massive controversy.
 * 15) Factual errors: The Sparrows that appear at the start and throughout the film are two separate species, one being a Tree Sparrow (who do not show sexual dimorphism and we can assume are possibly female from the voice) and the other being a female House Sparrow. This is odd having two separate species together and was most likely a factual error with someone thinking that a Tree Sparrow was in fact a male House Sparrow.
 * 16) The opening scenes with the singing sparrows have as much energy as the rapping pigeons from the beginning of the live action Tom and Jerry movie.
 * 17) Like with all other Sony Pictures Animation movies, it relies too much on including popular songs, and bad covers of most of them at that, sung by none other than the singing sparrows.
 * 18) James Corden was jarringly miscast as the titular Peter Rabbit to the point where it feels phoned in and insincere.

Good Qualities

 * 1) The ending isn’t too bad. Plus, Peter Rabbit and the animals do feel sorry for what they did, and they try to put things right in the rest of the film, which turned out successful.
 * 2) Spectacular 2D animation.
 * 3) There are a couple of good laughs here and there.
 * 4) The CGI on the animals is phenomenal, as while they have a more realistic approach, the animals, especially the rabbits, are really fluid and expressive. It also helps that the animals do actually look like they're interacting with the real world.
 * 5) Bea could be considered a likable character, and she does bring a nice in-joke being named after Beatrix Potter. In fact, the sequel revolves around the Peter Rabbit books that she had written in its own universe.
 * 6) The cast, particularly Domhnall Gleeson, do a fantastic job with the bad script.
 * 7) The soundtrack is mostly okay.

Reception
On mh:rottenwebsites:Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 63% based on 144 reviews, with an average rating of 5.7710. The website's critical consensus reads, "Peter Rabbit updates Beatrix Potter's classic characters with colorfully agreeable results that should entertain younger viewers while admittedly risking the wrath of purists." On mh:rottenwebsites:Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 51 out of 100 based on 26 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale.

Box Office
Peter Rabbit grossed $115.3 million in the United States and Canada, and $235.9 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $351.2 million, against a production budget of $50 million. In the UK, Peter Rabbit has become the biggest family film of 2018, overtaking Pixar's mh:greatestmovies:Coco. Totals from other markets include China ($26.5 million), Australia ($20.2 million), France ($12.3 million) and Germany ($12.1 million).

In the United States and Canada, the film was released alongside Fifty Shades Freed and The 15:17 to Paris and was projected to gross around $16 million from 3,725 theaters in its opening weekend, with some estimates as high as $25 million. It ended up making $25 million over the weekend, finishing second at the box office behind Fifty Shades ($38.8 million).

Trivia

 * Bea was named after Beatrix Potter, who is the author of the Peter Rabbit books. In fact, the sequel actually shows that she is the author of these books.
 * Sony apologized for the movie's "allergy bullying" scene.
 * The Hereditary trailer was accidently played during one showing of this movie in Australia.
 * Sony Pictures Animation is uncredited in the sequel, like how they were uncredited for The Angry Birds Movie, but not its sequel.
 * The film was first revealed in April 2015 through email leaks as a result of the Sony Pictures hack. The official announcement of the film came that December.

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