Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Kamilah is right. This is lazy Burton paint by numbers. Was I entertained, yes. Was I amazed, no. The movie does play to its strong suit, the discovery of the oddities takes up a good portion of the film, but it struggles when conflict ensues. I had really wished they didn't have a primary villain and instead focused on emotional conflict of love and loss. Samuel Jackson's performance in particular was rather uneven, he starts out seemingly scary only to fall into camp, in a strange variant of both overacting and phoning it in.
I like Burton's style but I feel he's been coasting on goth and fluffy macabre images for too long with no real substance.
As someone on another forum pointed out, there's both a creepyness and interesting story in a 70+ year old woman in a teenager's body falling for the grandson of her former love interest that would have been worthwhile to explore, instead she shrugs off her previous romance and falls for the main character like this was her first time.
The fact the main villain was seeking only immortality was a bit short sighted, given loops provide both time travel and a groundhog day scenario. It took me all of 5 minutes to think that someone wanting to abuse them could get a peculiar from the future to visit them with tons of future tech/knowledge, allow everyone to master it, then close the loop in 1943 leading all the peculiars to become billionaires and at that point any oddities they have would be overlooked.