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Peter Pan is the most famous work from J. M. Barrie and it has proved itself worthy as one of the best Disney classics of all time. Even though I used to love this film as a child, I still love it now! It is beautifully crafted together with a lot of beauty, magic, comedy and adventure! It shows its audience of what true adventure is and it gives us a beautiful way of using our imaginations. Despite how light hearted this film is, it is quite intense to watch too like the duels between Pan and Hook and the scenes with the crocodile. I was blown away by Peter Pan when I saw it again when I was 12 years old after 4 years of not seeing it. Peter Pan is a masterpiece just like Finding Neverland.
The classic story is set in London. It is about a troubled family called the Darling family. Mr. Darling is a well-intentioned but short tempered man who gets himself into a right state at one point in this film, Mrs. Darling is one of those typical mothers who just works in the house 24/7 and looks after the kids, Wendy (the eldest child) is the main reason for the family believing in Peter Pan because she tells the entire family especially her younger brothers John and Michael the stories of Peter Pan, Captain Hook and the Lost Boys. John and Michael are typical young boys who just have the most incredible imagination who just love to have fun and always want to enjoy themselves! One night, Peter and his pixie and close friend Tinker Bell arrives at the Darling house in search of his shadow which was taken off him by the house dog/'maid' Nana. He inadvertently wakes all of the three children up and they all decide to embark on an adventure to Never Land but when they arrive there, they have to try and avoid Captain Hook and his pirates at all costs!
Walt Disney had a tough time trying to buy the film's rights to Barrie's play since 1935. The studio started the story development and character designs in the early 1940s and Walt intended Peter Pan as a follow-up to Bambi, but World War II put the project on the shelf for the time being. After the war, they went on to release it on February 5th, 1953. There is a sequel to this called Peter Pan: Return To Never Land which was released in 2002 and a prequel called Tinker Bell released in 2008.
Overall, Peter Pan is a classic of my childhood that I will never forget. I would definitely call it one of the best Disney Classics of all time. It shows what Disney does best: all the wonder, all the magic and all the fun!
9/10
