Hook
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Time Out says
Spielberg's Hook looks like a theme park. The Peter Pan plot has been rejigged to suit Hollywood's dreary preoccupation with redemption; not that it matters much, since the story is largely becalmed so that we can wallow in the production values. The sets are variable but often unpleasant on the eye. To say that the best thing about the film is the miniaturised Roberts as Tinkerbell, wearing motorised Arthur Rackham wings, gives some idea how duff it is. The $60 million-plus enterprise first nosedives in the sprawling sequence where the Lost Boys train the paunchy grown-up Peter Pan (Williams) for combat against arch-enemy Hook (Hoffman), who has kidnapped his children. Hoffman's Old Etonian accent slips a bit; Hoskins as Hook's sidekick has nothing to do, and does it raucously. By the end, Peter has ditched his Wall Street cell phone and rediscovered the child in himself, so that's all right.Author: BC
Release details
UK release:
1991
Duration:
144 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Cast:
Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Caroline Goodall, Charlie Korsmo, Amber Scott, Laurel Cronin, Phil Collins, Gwyneth Paltrow, Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Glenn Close
Producer:
Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Gerald R Molen
Screenwriter:
Nick Castle, Malia Scotch Marmo
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