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Other fairy tales are best left unplumbed.
Mother appears to represent Nature (and youth, and life, and hope, etc.)
and communicates with her Lost Boys and Girls through geysers and volcanic eruptions on a remote island.
But random turns out to be a hell of a lot more fun.
The movies prologue is the only thrilling part.
Its an exhilarating trip until that island looms, whereupon Peter greets its belching volcano with Hey, Mother!
Happy to see you too!
Thats when I started to get confused.
Except theres a mother here already: a mother of a mother, Mother Nature.
And theres a void at the center.Macks Peter is either talking to Mother or on his own rascally wavelength.
He seems much younger than Wendy, who doesnt have much of a relationship with him.
They hate on Mother something fierce.
Look, its Captain Hook only without thearrrrsand the cool pirate costume and the paranoid fixation on a croc.
Anything a kid (or the kid in us) would get excited about has been purged.
Expressive as Frances Wendy is, we dont feel the same sort of connection.
