Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Question: Why couldn't Miss Peregrine create a loop sooner? Surely there were safer days before the bomb hit her house.

Question: How did Abe know at the end that the peculiar children were still in Blackpool and hadn't left on their ship yet?

Question: Why doesn't Millard just sneak past the wights in the Blackpool Tower and free the Ymbrynes from the cellar himself? Also, why doesn't he do more during the final battle?

Question: How does Emma manage to get out of the ocean with her lead shoes on? She couldn't have swum all the way to the shore.

Question: What is the deal with Emma's underwear? We see her wearing shorts when she goes swimming, but other times her underwear goes over her knees.

Question: How does entering numerous loops at the end help Jake get back to 1943? How long does it take him? And what did he spend two months in London doing?

Question: Why doesn't Barron just sneak into Abe's house, scour his map for the location of Miss Peregrine's loop, and travel to Wales disguised as Jake to find it? It probably would have saved him a lot of time and trouble, instead of posing as a psychiatrist and an ornithologist, and manipulating Jake into leading him to Miss Peregrine?

Question: We see the five Wights, Malthus, the Hollow that killed Victor, and four more Hollows. That makes eleven members of Barron's group, just like we see in the experiment flashback. But Jake mentions Barron's other friends. What other friends?

Question: How can Barron be in present time so long without aging?

Question: Where did the horse and cart come from? And what did the children do with them afterwards?

Question: How is Emma sitting on the horse and cart when she is lighter than air? I have watched the movie a few times and cannot see anything like a belt around her waist, but any other time she is sitting, she has been seen buckled down.

oncerella

Chosen answer: At several points throughout the film, there are instances where her powers of air are used only as a plot device, so the extent of her powers is somewhat unknown. Therefore, it is possible she is able to make herself sit on the cart without floating, but other times isn't.

Amina Thommesen-Kähler

Answer: This is a movie mistake because when she's at dinner, she has to wear a buckle to hold her down. And I don't see why she wouldn't be wearing one on the carriage too.

Question: Why do Miss Peregrine and the children wear the same outfits every day? Don't they have other clothes?

Answer: Most likely it's the movie's choice to avoid confusion and provide continuity. The premise is they are reliving the same day over and over. The characters changing clothes might cause to the audience to assume the time frame has changed.

raywest

Question: In a flashback, when Abe tells six-year-old Jake that there were monsters in Poland, Jake asks what kind, as if he's hearing about them for the first time, even though Abe mentioned them moments earlier.

Answer: While this could be a continuity mistake, it can also be explained that he's a six-year-old kid. He doesn't have a well-developed memory or other complex cognitive functions yet. Kids often ask the same questions over and over, forgetting details or failing to fully understand.

raywest

Question: Jake tells Emma there is only one reason he would stay with her. What reason was that?

Answer: Presumably, he means that he loves her.

raywest

Continuity mistake: While Jake is inside the destroyed house, he watches Olive and Claire hiding from him. However, after he knocks himself out and wakes up, Claire isn't between the Peculiars near him.

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Emma Bloom: If I show you the rest you have to promise not to run away.

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Trivia: Tim Burton makes a cameo in the fun park scene. He is the man with black frizzy hair and sunglasses on a ride that the hollow smashes into in a close-up.

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