Runtime: 77 minutes
Directed by: Four different guys
Starring: A decent voice cast, even if one of them was American
From: Disney
“This may contain outdated cultural depictions”, indeed.
As soon as I joined Disney + I realized that some of their programming contains a warning in their description informing everyone it may contain material which could offend in 2020. This has been viewed when I was real little; barely anything stuck with me all this time... the prejudiced depiction of the Native Americans I had no memory of.
After this was screened, no wonder there was discourse seen bemoaning how they were portrayed.; those minor characters were whooping “red men” dancing around a teepee. Others will find offense at how most of the women characters were jealous harpies-that was especially true of Tinkerbell. Sure, she was modeled after Marilyn Monroe and thus was thicc (as the kids of today like to say) but what an annoying character. That said, to paraphrase a mutual here, the titular character was a huge A-hole. Come to think of it, all of the protagonists can be nitpicked to death. The source material has never been read by me; hopefully they weren't as irritating there.
Thank goodness then that Captain Hook, his toady Smee and the crocodile that ate the Captain's hand and wishes to complete the job... all of them were fun. The pirates were buffoons yet ones that were entertaining. In addition, the father of the family was amusingly a curmudgeon. The animation looked real good and the score was fine, with some catchy tunes. All that and the action beats-especially the final confrontation-meant that I can rate this as fine. What benefits it is that this was at least not Hook (which I remember as not being so good from all those years ago, even if it had RU-FI-O!) nor the cast singing Nirvana and The Ramones as in the bizarre-sounding disaster known as Pan.
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