Purely Joyful Movie!

From my favorite movies..

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

I grew loving this movie. Maybe I watched it too many times. The production is great/ graphics. The story could be good. This movie isn't really that good. Could be good for kids, but Goonies IS great for ANYONE even today. This is average with HUGE actors.

This 1991 version of Peter Pan is still entertaining even today. That shows the critics where it stands. The film is way better than all the critics. Director Steven Spielberg is always coming with his style in introducing his characters for the first time in his movies. This time, he hints the audience with the hook for few scenes before revealing the antagonist Captain Hook. He even introduce the character of Rufio with an action rather than using dialogue concept.

When l saw this movie in 1994 l found confuse and silly,after DVD advent l decided to re-watch hopeful to see something more which l probable missing in the past...but unfortunately l lost my valuable hours in this foolish movie,the big sets are fake,statics and awful...the whole idea to make this in sound stage struck the picture,Captain's Hook's ship never could be static...all the kids were used in wrong way,too corny sentimentalism spoil the story,who needs a father to see the games anyway...in my childhood l used to play football with my friends only...no father or mother nearby....anyway so boring movie and too long,Hoffman as Hook deserves keep apart this mess!! Resume: First watch: 1994 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 6

From what I remember I really liked this movie when I was a kid however now after viewing it as an adult while I still really like it I have started to notice that some aspects either don't make a whole lot of sense or are just too over the top corny. Let me start by saying what I did and like the casting is pretty spot on, I love Robin Williams as Pan, Dustin Hoffman is amazing as Hook, Maggie Smith was a perfect choice for Wendy (and wow that makeup job was great), and Bob Hoskins was also great as Smee. The buildup for the first appearance of Hook was suspenseful and when we finally see Hook it is a pretty epic moment (Spielberg really loves to build up the first appearance of something in his films). Also when the movie tries to be funny it's pretty funny, the secondary pirates ("save me daddy", "he's stealing second", "woops"), when Peter first meets Tinkerbell, and the food fight were all pretty hilarious. As well when the movie tries to be dramatic it does work for the most part (Ruffio's death, Moria crying with joy when the kids make it back, the final scene, etc.). Finally John Williams score as always is amazing. The child acting is hit and miss, I thought the two actors who played Peter's kids were good as was Rufio but some of the other Lost Boys bordered on annoyance. However towards the end of the movie it goes a little overboard with it's whimsical tone, a perfect example is Hook and Peter's final sword fight, on several occasions it is interrupted for either some non-needed comic relief or some incredibly cheesy dialogue ("I believe in you Peter"). Peter has 3 chances to kill Hook and never does it and I felt that really interrupted the pacing. The sword fight could have been great but instead was meh. I also never really understood Pan's origin subplot, how is a baby afraid of growing up? Why does Peter continue to grow up when he goes to Neverland to not grow up? How does Peter just forget that he was in Neverland and battled Pirates? A lot of this could have been explained, especially when you have a 2.5 hour runtime but the movie just never went into it. And finally I did not like Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell. So overall it is a good family film, it does for the most part respect the source material but there are some parts where it goes too over the top campy. I feel that if they cut maybe 20 minutes out it probably would have fixed many of the films problems. I would definitely recommend Hook however it does have some problems.