The Biggest Problem with This Movie is . ..
The biggest problem with this movie is that they based it on Peter Pan. It was it's own thing and basically had very little to do with the source material other than character names and it takes place in Neverland. So everyone going in had preconceived ideas of what to except while the film maker was just doing his own thing.
Also I think that Joe Wright was VERY VERY ignorant about the issue of Tigerlily when he cast Rooney Mara. IMO she did a good job, she's an Oscar nominated actor so you except her to do a good job, but his reasoning for not hiring a Native American is beyond ridiculous to the point of being idiotic:
“In the book, the natives are described as being redskins, which is a term I don’t really recognize. So I couldn’t work out where they were natives of,”
He's saying because he doesn't recognize the term therefore there is no known definition for it. That's like a two year old saying they don't recognize vegetables as food and their parents going along with it. It's a stupid point on his part.
Basically if he would have done his own thing, away from the Pan story no one would have questioned him about the race of Tigerlily or on anything for that matter.
It wasn't a great movie. It had a truly terrible first act imo, but once it got going it was a good campy kids movie. There were a lot of problems, but most of the problems seemed to stem from basing the movie on Peter Pan to begin with.