Hook

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A classic. Kids loved it! Best remake of peter pan.

Bangarang!!! If you can fight, fly and crow -- this movie is just for you!

Oh man what a great blast from the past from my childhood. I haven't seen this movie in years, but when I saw it on prime video, I decided to revisit it. I'm glad I did, because rewatching it brought back so many fond memories and so much joy. RIP Robin WIlliams. This film shows how funny and talented he was and reminds us of what a treasure of a human being we lost when he passed.It really wasn't much more to purchase this film than it was to rent it through prime video. So, I opted to just buy it instead of renting. I'm glad I did, because I have already watched it several times and likely will many more times as well. Do yourself a favor and just buy this one!

After a play, a cartoon, and a tv series about one of the greatest stories ever created in history, we are finally rewarded with a "live-action" film that brings the world of Peter Pan to life and gives us the greatest emotional experience of all time!Okay, I will admit, I was laughing at the idea that this movie even existed. I mean, "Peter Pan, all grown up, married, and has kids", that wasn't the original Peter Pan that I knew at all. I at first thought it was a bad idea that this movie was even made and I made fun of it. But then... I found out that Steven Spielberg himself directed the movie and everything changed. I watched it and I my mouth hang open from shock after the movie was over. "Hook" is one of the greatest adaptions ever created in the history of Peter Pan!The story is very simple. Peter Pan has grown up, having fallen in love with a girl named Moira, who happens to be the granddaughter of the now elderly Wendy Darling. Having married Moira and had two kids, our hero has forgotten his time in Neverland and has become a regular person. But when Hook returns and kidnaps his children, Peter must return to Neverland, regain his memories, and team back up with the Lost Boys in order to save his children, while finally face his deadliest nemesis for the final time.With the work of the greatest director of all time, Steven Spielberg, Hook turned out to be one of the greatest movies of all time. Steven Spielberg delivers his version of Peter Pan and shows us what happens when the "boy who wouldn't grow up" actually grows up. Dustin Hoffman plays a great villain inside Hook, bringing his evil side to life and also showing us what he would be like in real life if he was real. Robin Williams delivers his best performance as a older Peter Pan, showing us his life without Neverland. Maggie Smith and Gwyneth Paltrow create such awesome versions of Wendy Darling, who has lived a full life and has us tearing up at how things used to be in the old days.The emotion inside this story is so heartfelt and beautiful, you will literally cry. Rufio, the Lost Boys (including elderly Tootles), Wendy, Tinkerbell, and even Peter himself make the best moments of this movie so worth watching. Old characters like Wendy and Tootles will have you missing the old times when they were all young and going on adventures with Peter. Rufio and the Lost Boys provide the greatest fun and adventures for us to watch and be entertained by. And Peter will give you the most greatest story about learning to deal with your past and moving on. Just his old saying "to die would be awfully big adventure", he now understands that "to live would be an awfully big adventure". You will be loving the emotion from all around the movie.This film was done so beautifully and amazingly, that we are able to call this "the greatest Peter Pan movie of all time"!This movie is very highly recommendable for Peter Pan fans. You will not be disappointed! Even kids will love it too! :)

I was totally enthralled by the dazzling remake of J.M. Barrie's classic story of the boy who did not grow up that came out last year from director P.J. Hogan. So I decided to go back and reconsider Steven Spielberg's 1991 film "Hook." In this version it turns out that Peter Pan did grow up. He fell in love with Wendy's granddaughter, Moira, decided to stay in our world, and does not remember anything that happened before the age of 12. With heavy-handed irony, Peter turns out to be a corporate raider (in other words, a pirate), who not only does not remember what it is like to be a child, he also ignores his own children. However, that all changes when Captain Hook makes his way to Granny Wendy's London home and kidnaps Peter's two children, Jack and Maggie. Tinkerbell shows up to help Peter remember who he is and take him to Never-Land to save the day.A lot of Spielberg's films deal with the theme of the absent father and clearly a key part of "Hook" is that Peter, the father, remembers not only his true self but his own children. But the film does not provide the sense of magic we expect from Spielberg and I want to make the argument that the problem is not so much the story as it is the casting. You simply cannot have Robin Williams in a movie like this and not expect him to be Robin Williams, which means that several key scenes get spun in a way that is not necessarily in the best interest of the story. Throw into the mix Dustin Hoffman having fun playing Captain Hook, Bob Hoskins having almost as much fun playing Smee, and Julia Roberts as a very talkative Tinkerbell, and you have a lot of star power running around on screen.The problem for me is what happens to Rufio, King of the Lost Boys, because that event changes the whole equation at play here. Because of what happens Peter cannot let Captain Hook off the hook, yet that is exactly what he does. I suppose it was too much for either Peter Pan or Robin Williams to do what had to be done in those circumstances, but this forces the film to come up with a way to have the right thing happen, albeit it in a comic way, without Peter having to get his hands dirty. Still I came back to what happened to Rufio and as the end game plays out in Never-Land I know in my heart that this is just not right.The idea that the casting of the principles is off is confirmed for me when we get back to London town. The reaction of Caroline Goodall's Moira when her children come back and Maggie Smith's performance from start to finish as Granny Wendy seem to me to be grounded in the film that this one should have been. If Dame Maggie had been the only recognizable name in this film and the others had been even relative unknowns, then the message in "Hook" might have worked. In other words, this needed to be a Steven Spielberg film and not a Robin Williams movie. There is a lot of power to be mined from Barrie's original story, which is exactly what Hogan proved in creating the best "Peter Pan" movie of them all.

Great movie - wonderful price and happy kid!!

Robin Williams rocks this movie (may he rest in peace)!