Peter Rabbit

Escape the kids paroled from school this Easter by haring into PETER RABBIT.
Too good for kids, PETER RABBIT is a bold bunny tale bounding with mischief and mayhem.

Based on the Beatrix Potter stories, PETER RABBIT boasts a Screen Story and Screenplay by Rob Lieber and Will Gluck that wags the original tale into an irreverent stew of larrikin lapin.

In the film, Peter’s feud with Mr. Thomas McGregor (Domhnall Gleeson) escalates to greater heights than ever before as their fight to gain control of McGregor’s coveted vegetable garden and the affections of the warm-hearted animal lover who lives next door (Rose Byrne) extends to the Lake District and London.

James Corden voices the character of Peter with playful spirit and wild charm, with Margot Robbie, Elizabeth Debicki, and Daisy Ridley performing the voice roles of the triplets, Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail.

With Byrne, Robbie and Debicki, in the cast you might think the casting patch has been taken over by Australians, and you’d be right.
Further voice work is provided by Fayssal Bazzi, Colin Moody, Ewen Leslie, Rachel Ward, Bryan Brown and Peter Wenham.

Locals who get their dial on the screen include Sacha Horler, Felix Williamson, and Sam Haft.

A good portion of PETER RABBIT was shot here, with Sydney’s Centennial Park a primary physical location. The film’s director of photography is Sydney born and bred cinematographer, Peter Menzies Jnr.

PETER RABBIT’s impeccable production design is by Roger Ford, Oscar nominated for his work on Babe and ironically, the award winning Rabbit Proof Fence.
Academy Award winning costume designer Lizzy Gardiner has whipped up the wonderful wardrobe and the picture has been assembled by local editors, Christian Gazal and Jonathan Tappin.

The animation is by the world leading local outfit, Animal Logic.

PETER RABBIT is the best looking film in the picture patch presently, and the funniest.
It puts the wild into wildlife as woodland creatures encroach on civilised man’s cultivation.
It’s heavy on havoc and mayhem in an hilarious way, and literally leaps across the screen in a fleet footed pace that wins the race against bogging down and boredom.
There’s electric shock and anaphylactic shock and the shock of the new bringing old characters to vivid, vibrant life.

PETER RABBIT is twenty four carrot fun, a live action/animation cross that resurrects nostalgia into a bright, sunshiny present.

PETER RABBIT is the perfect Easter Bunny and will endure, I’m sure, as a classic.