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Peter Rabbit
Theatrical release poster
Directed byWill Gluck
Written by
  • Rob Lieber
  • Will Gluck
Starring
CinematographyPeter Menzies Jr.
Edited byChristian Gazal
Music byDominic Lewis[2]
Production
companies
Distributed bySony Pictures Releasing
Release dates
  • February 2, 2018 (2018-02-02) (The Grove)
  • February 9, 2018 (2018-02-09) (United States)
  • March 22, 2018 (2018-03-22) (Australia)
Running time
95 minutes[4]
CountryUnited States[1]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$50 million[5]
Box office$351.2 million[6]

Peter Rabbit is a 2018 American live-action/computer-animated comedy film directed by Will Gluck and written by Rob Lieber and Gluck, based on the stories of Peter Rabbit created by Beatrix Potter. The film stars the voice of James Corden as the title character, with Rose Byrne, Domhnall Gleeson, Sam Neill, Daisy Ridley, Elizabeth Debicki and Margot Robbie also co-starring. The film was released on February 9, 2018, and eventually grossed $351.2 million worldwide. A direct sequel is also commenced to follow up and has already been announced as of May 4, 2018 and is currently in pre-production which has been set and scheduled to be released at sometime on April 3, 2020. Although, it was initially scheduled and planned to be released on February 7, 2020.

Plot

Based in England's Lake District, Peter Rabbit, the eldest family member and head of his whole rabbit clan, his younger cousin Benjamin Bunny, and his other 3 younger bunny triplet sisters Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-Tail, are spending most of their happy days picking on Mr. Joe McGregor and stealing lots of vegetables from his nice big fertile and beautiful green garden. They are also loyally close friends with a local country woman named Bea, who spends most of her time painting pictures of the cheerful and mischievous yet adorable rabbits as well as painting out the surrounding nature. Bea also takes on a mother-like relationship with the rabbits due to the death of their parents, who were killed by McGregor. One day, Peter is forced to leave his blue jacket in McGregor's garden and goes back to retrieve it. McGregor eventually spots and catches him, but suddenly dies of a heart attack due to several decades of unhealthy eating habits. Enthralled, Peter happily invites all of the local wildlife animals and pleasingly takes over McGregor's manor along with his other joyful animal friends.

Meanwhile in London, McGregor's great grandnephew Thomas McGregor, an uptight, controlling workaholic, works at the toy department of the Harrods department store where he waits for a promotion to associate general manager. He indifferently accepts the breaking news about his great granduncle's death, someone whom he was completely unaware of, but is infuriated over losing the promotion to a lazy grandnephew of the managing director and is eventually fired for losing his temper. His now-former manager encourages him to get a hobby and spend some time in the country.

When Thomas finds and learns that his late great granduncle's manor is greatly valuable and that he's inherited it, he then decides to appraise and prepare it for resale in order to start his own toy store and also to get even with his former employers. He kicks out Peter and his friends and begins to upgrade the security of the garden wall and gates, despite Bea's objections. When Peter and Benjamin sneak back into the garden, Thomas catches the latter and attempts to bring off and drown Benjamin in a distant river. His cousins eventually go out of their way and rescue him. Thomas instead accidentally drops a prized set of binoculars that Bea had given him earlier, forcing him to retrieve it.

Thomas and Peter then clash out as they both start a war with each other by setting up traps and other offensive nuisances. Thomas and Bea do also end up falling in love with each other, which causes Peter to become even more jealous and wanting to separate them even more so. This all culminates when Peter rewires an electric fence set up by Thomas, prompting Thomas to throw dynamite at Peter's burrow. Thomas then attacks Peter in the garden, telling Peter that his antics caused him to become aggressive. When Peter detonates the dynamite to prove to Bea that Thomas was using it, he ends up knocking down the tree on top of the burrow, which crushes Bea's art studio. Bea, ignoring Thomas’s reasonable explanation of his quarrel with the rabbits, breaks up with him, and he goes back to London to work at Harrods again.

Peter feels bad for what he has done, and upon learning that Bea intends to leave the neighborhood, he and Benjamin head to London to find Thomas at Harrods. Tricking Thomas into believing that he was actually imagining the rabbits’ bizarre ability to communicate, Peter sorrowfully apologizes for his part of the conflict and convinces Thomas to follow his heart. They both then together rush back to the country, where Peter shows Bea the detonator and presses it for her to see for herself, confirming Thomas’s previous claims that the rabbits were actually the ones who were responsible for the explosion. Peter and Thomas apologize to each other and convince Bea not to leave her home.

Wishing to remain with Bea, Thomas no longer wants to sell the manor but discovers that an unpleasant wealthy couple had already bought the house and have already finalized the deal of sale. And so, Peter and his all of friends use their sneaky tricks and tactics in order to force the new couple out of the house, thus allowing Thomas and Bea to move back in. Thomas and Bea eventually move back in together on and resume their loving relationship, and Thomas also now and finally permits about and over all of the local wildlife animals here to freely take food from the vast green garden that is previously owned by his former and legendary great granduncle for now on and while as long as it's within any valid grounds and good reason. Peter and his loving and caring family do also happily restore the whole burrow along with Bea and Thomas’s help. Thomas then goes on and prominently sets up his own toy shop in the village, where Bea favorably showcases all of her most valued and treasured illustrations of all of the cute and yet adorable little rabbits.

Cast

Live-Action Screen Actors

Voice Cast

The Singing Sparrows were voiced by Jessica Freedman, Shana Halligan, Katharine Hoye, Chris Mann, Chad Reisser and Fletcher Sheridan.

Production

The film was first revealed in April 2015 through email leaks as a result of the Sony Pictures hack.[7] The official announcement of the film then came on and about that December of the same year.[8]

In August 2016, Will Gluck was also reported to direct the film from a script that is also written by both him and Rob Lieber. James Corden was eventually cast to voice Peter Rabbit, and Rose Byrne was also selected to play one of the live-action screen roles as well as providing the voice for one of the talking animals.[9] Gluck produced the film along with Zareh Nalbandian of Animal Logic, which will be providing the visual effects and animation for the film.[9]

Daisy Ridley and Elizabeth Debicki also joined up with the cast in September 2016, and the live-action production of the film was eventually scheduled to commence in Sydney, Australia, in January 2017.[10][11][12] The next month, Domhnall Gleeson was then cast as Thomas McGregor, the only surviving relative and true descendent of the original Mr. Joe McGregor, and Margot Robbie had also joined the cast, expected to voice another one of the prominent bunnies.[13][14] In November of that same year, Sia was also cast as Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle.[15]

Filming

On December 18, 2016, a first image of the title character, along with the film's logo, was revealed.[16] Production began in December 2016.[17][18] Live action scenes were filmed at Centennial Park in Sydney.[19] In March 2017, filming took place at Mortuary railway station, Sydney, which was depicted as London Paddington station.[20]

Release

Peter Rabbit was originally scheduled to be released on February 16, 2018, alongside Black Panther[8], but it was instead moved up to February 9, 2018, just one week ahead of its then other newly-direct box office rival and number one principal challenger and rather more fiercely chief cinematic competitor.[21]

Trailer Criticism

The first trailer of the film received negative feedback from many critics and fans of the character, many of whom had initially labelled the film as being too modern and rather somewhat insulting to Beatrix Potter's original works. Collider called the trailer "garbage" and a "low brow 'comedy' cringe fest".[22]

Stuart Heritage from The Guardian stated that "the Peter Rabbit film looks like the result of some blisteringly inept manhandling [...] there's something genuinely harrowing about the sight of Peter Rabbit – gentle, Edwardian Peter Rabbit – thoughtlessly injuring some birds, or grabbing a pile of lettuce leaves and making it rain like a banker in a strip club or rather literally twerking" and also argued that "there is no such way on Earth that Beatrix Potter would have ever given the green light to a slow motion car crash like this."[23]

Metro writer James Baldock found that the trailer was "so gut wrenchingly bad" and that "if the movie lives up to its short 2-minute preview, it is also set to be the greatest abomination to grace the big screen ever since The Emoji Movie which was then released as of last 2017." He eventually ended his official statement and finished by writing "Listen carefully, and you can just about hear the sound of Beatrix Potter, turning furiously mad in her grave."[24] On November 7, 2017, another new trailer for the United Kingdom was then officially released.[25]

Home Media

The film was released on digital platforms on April 20, 2018. A Blu-ray and DVD and 4K followed on May 1, 2018.[26]

Reception

Box Office

Peter Rabbit totally grossed over $115.3 million in the United States and Canada, and $235.9 million in other territories including $20.5 million in Australia, for a worldwide total intake of $351.2 million, against its production budget of $50 million.[6]

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 about and over $25 million.[27] The film fortunately ended up making on and about $25 million over the first weekend, which was already 50% or just about half of its production budget of $50 million, while eventually finishing second at the box office behind Fifty Shades Freed ($38.8 million).[28] The film then dropped off by about 30% in its second weekend to $17.5 million ($23.4 million over the 4-day Martin Luther King Jr. weekend), this time finishing second behind newcomer and chief box office rival Black Panther.[29]

In the UK, Peter Rabbit was a moderately big successful hit and even thus became the biggest family film of 2018, overtaking Pixar's Coco with $56.3 million and eventually toppled Black Panther, while also holding off several other previously released films by a few other rival studios and some other Sony Pictures productions as well.[30] Total international grosses from other foreign markets as well also include China ($26.5 million), Australia ($20.5 million), France ($12.3 million) and Germany ($12.1 million).[31]

Critical Response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 64% based on 133 reviews and an average rating of 5.8/10. 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."[32] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 51 out of 100 based on 26 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[33] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.[34]

Allergy Controversy

In the first week after the film's release, groups in multiple countries criticized it for "allergy bullying" and called for an apology from Sony. The accusations focused on a scene where Thomas McGregor — whose character has a known severe allergy to blackberries — is pelted with the berries until one enters into his mouth, thus causing him to enter into great and deep anaphylactic shock and grab for his Epipen.[35][36][37] In response to this allergy controversy, Sony had eventually published an official statement saying "We sincerely regret not being more aware and sensitive to this issue, and we truly apologize".[38]

Sequel

Sony Pictures is also currently working on with developing a direct follow-up sequel to this film which has been set and scheduled to be released at sometime on April 3, 2020, although initially scheduled and originally planned for a February 7, 2020 release date but then later on pushed back towards April 3, 2020, by around spring time in order to allow more younger children audiences some more time off from most schools on easter and also at the same time during most of their spring breaks. Will Gluck, the original producer, writer and director of this first film, has also confirmed to return to co-produce, co-write and direct this next film sequel.[39]

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