I usually don't like Indy films, I usually don't like updated fairy tales. I'm not a film critic and unlike a lot of people on IMDb I don't pretend to be one. I'm just average American public and I loved this film! I discovered it last night and watched it and was enthralled. It's amazing to think that maybe this was what Peter Pan was about when you were a little kid and you just didn't understand it then.I watched it again tonight, it was just as good. I've decided I need to have this in my collection! I really want to catch a good buzz and watch it again and see what I get out of it. There's just certain movies that are better with a buzz and I think this may be one of them. If so my rating will go from a 9 to a 10!

i now forget why I'm have been searching every store/rental place for this on DVD since spring of 2005 but i glad i finally found it. the storyline is very creative how it took original peter pan story into a dark tale about growing up. the acting was OK. Rick sparks who played peter pan was the only good actor in this movie. then the girl who played tink was next down. The rest except the girl who played Wendy were not as good. i hope rick start getting more movie roles because he is hot. i think think the people who will see this are people who are into the stories peter pan and people who will any movie just because it different. officially i rate this a 9.5 because .5 of it was the bad acting of the lost boys. i think everybody should watch this movie at least once, i bet whoever watches this wont think of the novel/Disney movie/newest movie of peter pan the same why as they did before because i know i wont

As many others have commented,this movie lacks as much as it has to offer. The cinematography is poor and the editing is worse. Long transitional scenes seem to have been added just get get characters from one place to another while padding the screen time.Many have mentioned that t he acting was poor, but Wil Wheaton is a fairly good actor and he simply doesn't shine, here. So I think I would blame it on the direction. The story is the strongest reason to see this. It holds pretty close to the original Peter Pan, up to a point. It has a certain "What if Peter Pan Took Place in the Real World" point of view but still seems so bizarre, since the lost boys act so immature even though they've grown up physically. These guys are in their 20's and still act like little boys (Can Wendy be our mother?. And most of them look a bit too much like male models, which I found distracting. However, the bizzarreness is what attracted me to this film. That and the fact that I got to see Wil Wheaton acting out a role far from Wesley Crusher or the mentally ill homeless guy on CSI. This one's wort a look-see.. if you appreciate low-budget, badly acted, badly photographed movies with a twist.

It takes a lot to surprise me, but I was shocked by this. This has to be one of the most subversive things I've ever seen... and not like a porn version of "Alice in Wonderland" or something like that. This low-budget movie very subtly and gradually melted away the Peter Pan mythology and rebuilt it in the most disturbing way. It was as if the filmmakers took the story of Peter Pan and forced it to grow up, without changing its core. A masterful concept that was handled extraordinarily well despite some obvious budget limitations. My wife cried at the end of this film and couldn't stop. While I found it challenging on an intellectual level, I didn't have the emotional response that she did. When I asked her why she found it so sad she told me that when she was young she would always dream that Peter would show up and fly her away to Neverland, and as she got older she of course had the "prince charming" fantasy. She told me that watching this movie was like the symbolic nail in the coffin of that dream. So not only did this movie freak me out, it made my marriage more depressing. In any case, it was powerful, entertaining, and thought provoking... and very captivating. So when someone says they hate this movie and they want to throw the DVD against the wall, I can understand where they are coming from.Neverland delivers a strong, sometimes harshly realistic message, but we can't hate the messenger now, can we? Neverland gets an 8.