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Hook (1991)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:8
Rotten:29
Average Rating:4.3/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 24 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Director Steven Spielberg brings J.M. Barrie's PETER PAN to the screen with a delightfully modernized twist. Forty-year-old Peter (Robin Williams) has grown up to be a workaholic lawyer with more... Director Steven Spielberg brings J.M. Barrie's PETER PAN to the screen with a delightfully modernized twist. Forty-year-old Peter (Robin Williams) has grown up to be a workaholic lawyer with more affection for his cell phone than his wife and two children. When the family travels to England to visit Granny Wendy (Maggie Smith), Peter's son and daughter are kidnapped by the villainous Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman). Peter's faithful pal, Tinkerbell (Julia Roberts), helps him return to Neverland--"Second star to the right and straight on ‘til morning"--to the world Peter has forgotten. There the Lost Boys welcome Peter back and try to get him in shape for his fight with Captain Hook. Peter must somehow remember his long-forgotten boyhood in Neverland and learn how to fly again before he can rescue his children away from the evil clutches of Captain Hook. Bob Hoskins costars as Hook's right-hand man, Smee, and Gwyneth Paltrow, in her first film role, plays the young Wendy. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Song for John Williams's "When You're Alone." [More]
Starring: Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Bob Hoskins, Julia Roberts
Starring: Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Bob Hoskins, Julia Roberts, Maggie Smith, Charlie Korsmo
Director: Steven Spielberg
Director: Steven Spielberg
Screenwriter: James V. Hart, Nick Castle, Malia Scotch Marmo
Composer: John Williams
Reviews for Hook
Also-ran Spielberg at best, a would-be blockbuster that no one likes at worst.
Who wants to spend over two hours with a Peter Pan who screams, 'Don't mess with me, I'm a lawyer!'
The story's lack of depth and originality comes from the writers. But not to have the visual wonder and inventiveness, which a fantasy like this requires, from a Spielberg movie is harder to understand.
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