Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

 The latest movie Noshi and me saw, this little 2016 box office hit is a fun family fantasy movie.

Though according to our Netflix, we have already seen it, yet neither could remember this, odd...

Jake was told stories by his grandfather about how he battled monsters and spending his childhood at Miss Peregrine's House for Peculiar Children, a magical place on the small island of Cairnholm in England.  All possessing paranormal powers, but when one day Jake finds his grandfather dying with his eyes removed, he is told to go to the loop of September 3, 1943.

The traumatic event causes him to start following therapy with Dr Golan, and together with his father Frank he travels to England to find closure.  He discovers the home destroyed from a Luftwaffe raid back in 1943, but when he enters the ruins he finds the children from his grandfather's stories.  They take him through a portal that wisks him back to 1943, with the house still intact.  

Miss Peregrine explains she belongs to a class called Ymbryne, who can transform into birds, and she and the children hide in a timeloop she created to not being prosecuted in the outside world.  This allows them to relive the same day all over, and prevent them from aging as long as they stay inside the loop.  Jake learns he is also a peculiar, being able to see invisible monsters called Hollows.  These hunt peculiars to consume the eyeballs, in order to maintain a human form, albeit with mily white eyes.

A wounded Ymbrine, miss Avocet, arrives, telling she was attacked by the head of the Hollows, Barron, in the 2016 Blackpool loop and he killed all her children.  Barron manages to get inside the loop, and reveals he has been nursing Jake to find and bring him to this loop, posing as his therapist and all.  

As another Hollow attacks, killing miss Avocet, Jake and the children escape and go after Barron and the captured miss Peregrine to Blackpool, restoring a sunken boat to do so as the home is destroyed by the Luftwaffe this time, breaking the loop.  They catch up to Barron and his monsters, and overcome them, Barron getting killed in the process.  

Jake says goodbye and goes to find his grandfather, as due to Barron being killed in an early loop, he never got to go after his grandfather.  He finds them and receives a map with the international time loops, using it to travel through time, serve in WW2 and eventually reuniting with his friends in 1943, where they go and seek a happy timeloop to live their lives in.

So this was one of those really amusing films to watch in the couch, and of course Eva Green adds that extra touch to everything, but I might be biased on that account.  But if you haven't seen it yet, surely go take a look at it, it's worth the time.