I just didn’t enjoy ‘Hook’

I just didn’t enjoy ‘Hook’. Why? I thought the plot was really silly; Peter Pan – the hero who never grows old – has grown up! He’s become Peter Banning (Robin Williams) and he has two children and a wife

I thought Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman) had been eaten by a crocodile while Peter was still a boy, well now he’s returned along with Smee (Bob Hoskins) and all the other pirates, he’s even killed the goddam crocodile that ate him!

‘Hook’ had some pretty good costume designing, and art direction too, Never Land looked good and the effects weren’t bad, I even found some jokes funny

But I thought there was some pretty pathetic slapstick and jokes, there was even this one scene where Tinkerbell (Julia Roberts) went from being the size of an ant to becoming human sized, most of the performances in this movie are terrible, Dustin Hoffman tries hard but Robin Williams is actually pretty obnoxious, Bob Hoskins gives a rather bland performance, but at least they’re not as annoying as Julia Roberts! She definitely gave one of the most annoying performances of all time!

We do see Peter realise he is Peter Pan when he sees Wendy, John, Michael and his names carved on a tree, we then realise that Wendy (Maggie Smith) became older and soon forgot how to fly, she had a granddaughter who Peter fell in love with, this is presumably how he became old, but didn’t Peter love Wendy? In case you knew nothing about ‘Peter Pan’, Peter falls in love with Wendy! And they changed it! Why did they do it?


4/10