When it was first released, this movie caught me at totally the wrong time. I was 15 and my taste in movies was changing, I was a Robin Williams fan (thanks to movies such as The Fisher King, Good Morning Vietnam and Awakenings) and I knew Dustin Hoffman was great due to the movies of his I had seen (Marathon Man, Rain Man, Tootsie and Midnight Cowboy) and based on the trailer, I was expecting something different to what was delivered. Dull, Bland, boring and (to steal a word from BobbyKlump) saccharine!! Spielberg's Daddy issues are right at the front and centre of this over long movie. Williams is your typical Spielberg Dad, in that he is absent (although he is present) with no time for his kids, as he is always at work. Or ignoring his kids whilst he deals with phone calls to do with work. When he is there he is usually snapping at them to shut up or grow up.It takes to long to get going, there are too many characters, too much bad acting (The Lost Boys are especially bad) and too many props. The whole thing looks like what it is, a movie set, right down to the unconvincing backdrops. Then there are the endings!! Not since LOTR: Return Of The King have I seen a movie with this many endings!! One after another. Farewells. Poignancy. Lessons to be learned. Speeches to be made. Tears to be shed. It is embarrassingly excessive.Of the cast Hoffman seems to think he is in a panto, Maggie Smith is a joy, I think the woman can do no wrong. Charlie Korsmo and Amber Scott (as the Branning children) are probably the best performers in the movie. Blink and you will miss Gwenyth PaltrowJulia Roberts was nicknamed "Tinkerhell" because she was difficult to deal with, a reaction to her working conditions of solitude and green screen. Production had to be temporarily shut down, when she fled California after calling off her wedding to Kiefer Sutherland. A furious Spielberg threatened to fire her if she didn't return immediately.Hook grossed $119 million at the domestic box office, to end 1991 s the 6th highest grossing movie!! Finishing behind T2, Prince Of Thieves, Beauty & The Beast, Silence Of The Lambs and City Slickers.

I have seen interviews where Spielberg looks back on this film not so enthusiastically, feeling the Neverland sequences weren't his best. Yea, not exactly perfect, but I'd have to say "Bullsh*t" if he, or anybody else, says this movie sucks. It doesn't. The positives outweigh the negatives: The fantastical music score by John Williams will pull at your heartstrings, the premise of Peter Pan leaving Neverland and growing up is an interesting one, and I'd say Dustin Hoffman (who is totally unrecognizable) and Robin Williams are outstanding as Captain Hook and Peter Pan.This was a childhood favorite of mine, I grew up with it, and even when I'm about to turn 25 in the next couple months, I STILL LOVE this movie. And it has appeared that I am not alone in this, as I've seen people come up and say how much they love it. Right now I'm watching it after so long and I had shed tears during the "There you are Peter" scene, man does time fly.But still, I say this is one of Spielberg's most underrated films, and if you need a big reason to watch it, watch it for John Williams' music score, it will take you into the film on an emotional level. I need to watch this with my nephew in the future.

Movie Review: "Hook" (1991)Based on James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) books, director Steven Spielberg fulfills himself another childhood picture dream by telling the classic story of a sword-fighting 10-year-old boy called "Peter Pan" in the imaginative land of "Neverland", firstly brought to wide U.S. audiences with the animation classic from Walt Disney Pictures, releasing inn February 1953, before presenting abroad to a European Premiere audience at the Cannes Film Festival, out-of-competition, in its 6th edition in May 1953.Director Steven Spielberg must have been that enchanted to risk the highest budget of his career to that date of holiday season 1991/1992 with fellow producers Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall handling 70 Milion U.S. Dollars, when Spielberg's own production company Amblin Entertainment, founded in 1981, teams up for one-time world-wide motion picture presentation with Columbia affiliate TriStar Pictures, bringing in Holywood stars as Dustin Hoffmann in heavy as splendid costume as "Captain Hook" in his 60s, when leading character Peter Banning, growing to be a successful, non-stop broker in London's financial center, given face by star-power as comic-talent indulging Robin Williams (1951-2014), armed with a cellular phone, whose character finds himself back in "Neverland" as a 40-years-old adult going back in dark-green costume to fight nemesis Captain Hook, meeting lovable characters portrayed by professional as moments of magic-sharing Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell and Bob Hoskins (1942-2014) as match-making "Hook" side-kicking first boatsman "Smee", all presented in extraordinary sound-stage construction work and visual effects orchestrated by Academy-Award-nominated supervisor Eric Brevig and associates alongside with first steps into digital image integration at Lucasfilm Ltd. affiliate "Industrial, Light and Magic" (ILM), when John Williams' fantasy-intriguing score compositions seem to rescue the slightly-dust-spreading movie of being an emotional fall-out especially for Internet-spoiled children, who suffer under out-of-balanced sensualities these days.Nevertheless, this enjoyable no-offense nor emotionally-challenging motion picture prevails after an enduring 135-Minute-Final-Cut by thanks to Spielberg's fellow editor Michael Kahn seems the intended target group of 8 to 12 year-old boys-less-girls, who want to come to the movie houses with their parents, in reminiscence of seemingly one in a life-time Spielberg-Movie-Experience with "E.T.-the Extra-Terrestrial" of presumingly 148,000,000 reprising U.S. moviegoers in one of the greatest attendance in motion picture history against 30,000,000 ten years later to modest attendance with ticket prices up to 43 % raised in average worldwide box office reception against season 1981/1982.Copyright 2018 Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC

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