I never expected the ending.
I think this is a great story to how peter pan came to neverland.
Magnificent.

I was wondering where TwickABros got to...I'l watch it tomarrow..

"actuallly this involves spiderman too, not batman. but im also taking a new approach, more comedy, less action. i dont see to many movies like that with more comedy than action" --SteveStarfyTV on an Indiana Jones meets Star Wars idea.

This film's tone and story is so touching to me since Peter lost his family, had a brother he never got to meet and got replaced by him, fled humanity and passed into neverland, and became the fun-loving boy who will never grow up; he got what he wanted. Traditional Brickfilms was a great narrator in this film rather than Professor Voet in Darkman's The Quest for the Blood Diamond trilogy, and one thing in the first of the trilogy he was credited as Joe Hanson if that's his name or not if Darkman made a mistake.

The first six minutes were incredibly well-done, but are unfortunately muddled down by a very mediocre ending. The majority of the film exhibited great storytelling and character development (as well as some fine voice acting), if only such care were given to the final act rather than having it narrated to me. It almost felt like a cop-out, like they ran out of time, resources, or motivation to tell the rest of the story and threw together a small montage of events in Peter's later life. The fact that upon Peter's return, his parents have forgotten him could have been an excellent moment of drama, but instead is only touched upon briefly. The ending is really the only major detrimental part of the film, which holds it back from being a truly excellent brickfilm.

Like I said earlier, much of the voice acting is quite good, especially Impey as Peter (I do wonder where Impey went, he showed a lot of great potential as a brickfilmer). The animation was pretty good for the most part, as was the lighting. The set design was great, the cinematography was about average (I didn't care for how the characters were framed during dialogue sequences). I didn't notice the shift in colors until Smeagol pointed them out, but now that he has, I definitely see what he means, and it's a nice little touch. The chroma keying effects were rather shaky, probably the biggest technical problem with the film. I agree with Smeagol about the sound design, it was effective and worked well with the film while being subtle. The vocal levels were the only inconsistent thing with it. The score was also quite good, helping to add an emotional highlight to each scene.

Overall, I'd say TwickABros did a good job with this material for the most part. The storytelling and development is done better than many other brickfilms recently, but the only thing keeping this from being a really great film is the ending.

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I know what you mean, Lech. Having to work around the wide range of voice and sound effect levels without totally ruining the flow of the music was tricky.

I agree with Lech. For two straight years of work, and an even longer peorid of hyping, I thought the ending was way too quick.

Good:
-EXELLENT score. Schlock, if I ever make an 'Epic', I want you to do the music for it! It captured to whole feeling of the movie perfectly, and without it, I feel the movie would have been mediocre.
-Good sets. Although its pointless to praise and critise the movie here, I'm not creating an account on BF just to reveiw this movie (also, me and Twick have a little history)
-Nice rain effects Lech.
-Nice Tinkerbell effect Smeagol, and I love the opening shot.

Bad:
-Though the greenscreen worked out pretty well (I think Twick ended up doing it himself) for some of the time it was not needed. The shot of Peter on the tree could have used a backdrop to the same effect, and the street corner could have just featured more set. I suppose this is just because I'm not really a fan of CG unless there is no other way of doing it. I'm sure real set would have looked much better.
-The Ending. As Mindgame said, the movie is horribly paced. A script is like a poem, its got to keep consistent and sounding good. After two years of work, I would have expected scripting to be top notch and to perfection.

WTF:
-The flying. WHAT THE HELL? Why did Peter suddenly jump out of the window and fly? Did he just think "Bad ending AWAY!" and knew he was going to fly? I thought you needed Pixie dust or some other magical power, yet Peter seemed to have neither. Its like Twick just cut out the part where Peter learnt how to fly, and just decided to show him flying. And the scene was too dark to see Peter flying anyway.
-Why did Peter suddenly decide to run away? I didnt even know he had run away untill he returned, and the movie didnt show how long he had run away for. Surely he must have grown full size legs by the time his family managed to get a daughter and forget all about Peter? Though the thought of going to school makes me want to run away, I think it was way to quick.
-WHERE THE HELL DID THE FAIRY COME FROM? Half the movie is missing here. Whilst the other characters are developed exellently, Tinkerbell comes right out of no-where and the voice over acts like she's been in the whole movie. No wonder the editing took so long - half the movie appears to have been cut. I cant beleive that whilst scripting, such errors could have been made.

Overall: 3/5. Whilst containing the best beggining to a Brickfilm ever, be prepared to be dissapointed by such a poor, corner cutting ending.

Moral: Dont ever hype a Brickfilm. EVER.

-MRB

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The Voice acting could have been improved, the sudden narration was a little jarring and the ending could have been improved, otherwise I thought it was great.

I really liked it. The ending was a bit abrupt, but I like the way he left it open so the viewer can judge what happens next. Animation was excellent and the score was superb. I just loved it!

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Thanks for all the comments, both on the film and the score. I notice a lot of you are talking about the sound levels, and actually I was the one that incorporated the score into the preexisting sounds and voices, but Twick did the voices themselves. The thing was that the voice levels were already messed up quite a bit when I received the rough cut version, and some were extremely quiet while others were really loud. I actually had the music playing at a slightly more "normal" level the first time, but then Twick asked me to redo it, so I may have inadvertently caused some more "inequality" among the sound levels because of this. I tried normalizing some of the voice levels but my software could only do so much because they were already incorporated into the movie file itself, along with putting the score on top of it. But that is the story behind that if you were wondering.