![]() I’ve grown to appreciate it more and more as the years go by, and now consider it to be one of Spielberg’s unsung classics. The film is a raucous, anarchic, technicolor delight it has swashbuckling action sequences, chaotic playful scenes involving Peter and the Lost Boys, and a rich vein of emotional depth exploring themes relating to families and fatherhood. He is ably supported by Dustin Hoffman as the moustache-twirling flamboyant villain James Hook, as well as Julia Roberts as Tinker Bell, Bob Hoskins as Hook’s first mate Smee, and Caroline Goodall as Moira, plus Charlie Korsmo and Amber Scott as the children. The film is anchored by a wonderful, childlike performance by Robin Williams as Peter, who gradually sheds his adult neuroses and embraces his inner hero as the film unfolds. However, everything changes when Peter’s old nemesis Captain Hook kidnaps his children, and Peter is forced to return to Neverland, reunite with Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys, and remember his birthright, in order to save them. In a last ditch attempt to save his marriage he agrees to a family vacation in London with Moira’s grandmother Wendy – the same Wendy who loved Peter when she was a girl, and who is now an old woman. Peter Pan has grown up and forgotten all about his adventurous childhood he is now Peter Banning, and a successful lawyer in San Francisco, but he neglects his wife Moira and his children Jack and Maggie. Hook was written by Jim Hart, Nick Castle, and Malia Scotch Marmo, and is set many years after the original story. Barrie’s classic fairy tale Peter Pan in the years since it was first published in the early 1900s, but it wasn’t until Steven Spielberg came along that there was a sequel. There have been dozens of theatrical and cinematic adaptations of J.
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