Mixed Reviews for Disney's 'Peter Pan & Wendy' Remake

David Lowery's version of "Peter Pan & Wendy" is a humanizing interpretation of J.M. Barrie's classic tale that speaks more to the inner child of jaded adults than to actual kids. The film grounds the fundamental wistfulness of the original story with empathetic backstories and takes care to remedy the original's overt racism and latent sexism. Lowery and his co-writer Toby Halbrooks have created a fairytale of the present and for the future, diversifying the mythic leader's ragtag group and developing the indigenous people of Neverland into more realized characters.