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Movie Reviews of Hook
Movie Review: A masterpiece - one of Speilberg's best!
Summary: 5 Stars
I just don't understand why all the professional film critics have to put down HOOK. This is my favorite version of Peter Pan and Captain Hook - I find it even better than Disney's animated film, PETER PAN! It definitely is enjoyable with a cleaver script, and it's fast-paste so it doesn't drag on slowly. This film takes place when Peter Pan (Robin Williams) is all grown up. He is now known as Peter Banning and has a wife and two kids. Peter is the kind of guy who loves his work. He tries to spend time with his family but his work keeps getting in the way. Then he and his family goes to London to visit Granny Wendy (Maggie Smith) because Peter is going to make a speech on Granny Wendy's accomplishments, which was to have a hospital for homeless orphan children built. When they get to London, Granny Wendy tells Peter that he is actually Peter Pan, even though he doesn't believe her. When Peter, his wife, and Granny Wendy are at the party, Captain Hook (Dunstin Hoffman) comes back because he learns that Peter Pan is back in London and kidnaps Peter's children, Jack and Maggie! Peter is soon met by Tinkerbell (Julia Roberts) who tells him that Captain Hook has kidnapped his kids and he must go off to Neverland to save them. When Peter gets to Neverland, it's an adventure he'll never forget - especially when he comes across the Lost Boys who've got a new leader and he has to prove to them that he is really Peter Pan so they can help save his children.
HOOK is one of the best fantasy/adventure films of all time. Some parts are very hilarious, too. I never get tired of watching this film. The whole family will enjoy it! With an all-star cast including Robin Williams, Dunstin Hoffman, Maggie Smith, Julia Roberts, and many more...how could you go wrong? Gwyenth Paltrow even makes a cameo role as young Wendy. If you haven't seen this already, then it's not to be missed! The fight sceen between Peter Pan and Captain Hook at the end is awesome, too. So don't listen to those professional film critics and buy this DVD. It's a must. A real winner and a film Disney and Steven Speilberg should be proud of!
Movie Review: Practically Perfect Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Sometimes I think movie critics are the stupidest people in the world! If you don't like Peter Pan or fantasy, then yes, you won't like this film, but you have no authority to criticize it either. I don't pretend to like horror movies so I wouldn't watch them or presume to judge them. Let someone who likes them critique them.
That said, for fans of Peter Pan, especially the original book, this movie is the funniest, most intelligent homage to the myth possible. It captures the irreverent tone of the book without the typical modern sly disrespect of fairy tales. Almost every word of dialogue is perfect in hilarity or poignancy. It makes you laugh and cry alternatively. The movie is packed with more 'moments' than you could believe would fit in a movie (though it is over 2 hours) without feeling forced or over-stuffed; it flows beautifully. The writers were geniuses with the concepts here -- a grown up Pan who is afraid to fly, kids as happy thoughts, the symbol of the sword,the watch, and baseball. Don't miss Tootles' marbles, Hook's hilarious suicide attempt, Jack's picture of the plane crashing, the jogging chant, or the cell phone and lawyer jokes.
Wendy's performance is awe - inspiring, and the music is wonderful.
I missed not having Indians, but realize it would completely not have worked in this movie.
Peter Pan is often used as a symbol of selfishness, so what better theme than to watch him finally 'get it.' Growing up in all the worst ways, and then in all the right ways are the thematic bookends to the movie. Some may find it smarmy, but it is an important lesson to learn and a great bridge from Victorian England, where most where grown up in both the right and wrong ways, to modern America where many don't grow up at all. Most women and kids long for men to pay attention.
If you are the kind of person who thinks Pirates of the Carribean was one of the best movies ever, you would probably love Hook. They are the only ones that could concievably be considered similar. And by the way, all the kids love it!
Movie Review: I believe in you, Peter Pan.
Summary: 5 Stars
Without a doubt 1991's HOOK is my favorite movie of all time.
Granted, if you are a 40-something year old about to view Hook for the very first time you may have trouble truly enjoying, or even understanding it.
The tale of Peter Pan(Robin Williams), the boy who ran away to Neverland; always wanted to have fun and never wanted to grow-up! But what happens when indeed he has grown and he's been away from Neverland for years. Now he must return to Neverland to save his two children from the hands of villainous Captain Hook!(Dustin Hoffman), only things are complicated; He's old, he's fat and Peter has forgotten how to fly(not to mention the fact that he ever was Peter Pan at all!)
"Don't mess with me, man, I'm a lawyer. "
Since as far back as I can remember this film has held a special place in my heart, and it is still true today. Night after night my father and I would pull out our light-up swords and fight in the dark, quoting classic lines from the film. It is one of my most treasured memories and I have Hook to thank for it.
Watching Peter Banning slowly uncover all the facts and hardships he's encountered to find his happy place and fly are touching.
Hoffman and Williams are both brilliant adding different facets to these characters then could have been imagined, and they really have the ability to pull it off! Every character cast is fantastic.
Hook is solely for those who are in-touch with their inner child, what is truly important in life and tying to find a balance between staying true to yourself and realizing we all must grow up. If this isn't you, I don't assume you can even begin to appreciate it. Then again I supposed it's because you're far too enlightened already....
"You... You man! you stupid, stupid man! "
It absolutely never gets old.
Movie Review: LONG LIVE THE HOOK!!
Summary: 5 Stars
The very concept of family entertainment just doesn't get better than this film!! I have to admit, I've never actually seen the original Disney version of Peter Pan but after watching this "remake" I would have to believe that the audience would probably get a stronger feel for the underlining power of the messages the original story is trying to bring out. And in my opinion, there's not a single filmmaker in history that can bring these kinds of messages to the screen better than Steven Spielberg!! Here we have a grown up Peter Banning taken back to his "roots", shall we say, as Peter Pan as well as to rescue his kids from the infamous Captian Hook in never neverland. Along the way he rediscovers the true power of childhood friendship and imagination. IMHO Spielberg is really at his best working with this kind of material. He's always done a great job at balancing out visually and emotionally the "earthly" world from the childlike essence of his "outer" world and even at times, bringing them together(Jurassic Park). I don't think you have to look any farther than Close Encounters of the Third Kind for evidence of that. I think Spielberg is one that really gets a kick out of playing with our emotions. I even remembered during an interview that when talking about a scene from Close Encounters, he really never considered the rationality of the scene as much as how he thought it would look visually or feel emotinally. Kinda brings note to how we experience the world as a child in the first place!! And not to take anything away from his ability to tell stories about the real world because there's absolutely no denying the power of classics such as Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, or The Color Purple. But it is indeed his fascination and understanding of childlike innocence that, along with this beautiful film, brings out the child in all of us!!Movie Review: Heartwarming film!
Summary: 5 Stars
I watched this movie when I was really young and I loved it then. I watched it again today and I love it still! Peter Pan, having been put up for adoption in the "real world" by Wendy and grown up, is now Peter Panny, a lawyer who is too busy to appreciate his wife and two children, Jack and Maggie. Peter goes to his daughter's play, but is on his cellphone the entire time. He compeltely misses Jack's baseball game, and when Jack is bitter about it and acting childish, Peter tells him to 'grow up.'
Then Captain Hook kidnaps Peter's children as revenge, Tink whisks Peter off to Never Never land - where he firmly believes he's hallucinating. He remembers nothing of being Peter Pan, the lost boys, Captain Hook, or anything. In order to save his children, he must find the child within himself. And the only way to accomplish that is by having the Lost Boys and Tink help him. He must learn to stop being the selfish lawyer who is too busy for everybody and start being a person who appreciates life and sees everything as an adventure. Meanwhile, Jack is taking the opposite route and giving up his childhood while being held captive.
The movie is a wonderful tale, and it brings a new life to the Peter Pan story. The visuals are outstanding and the movie does an awesome job at creating a real, live Never Never Land where there are mermaids, paint fights, pirates, and the tickety tock of the crock.
The acting is superb, and I don't think they could've picked anybody better to play Peter Pan and Captain Hook than Robin Williams and Hoffman.
It's an all around great film for the whole family. It gives even the most cynical of adults the hope that maybe we can all find the child within us and learn to live that way.