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Hook (1991)

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Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 39
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 27

The look of Hook is lively indeed but Steven Spielberg directs on autopilot here, giving in too quickly to his sentimental, syrupy qualities.

43

Average Rating: 4.8/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 4

The look of Hook is lively indeed but Steven Spielberg directs on autopilot here, giving in too quickly to his sentimental, syrupy qualities.

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Steven Spielberg filters J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan through a distinctly 1990s sensibility in Hook. Peter Pan has become Peter Banning (Robin Williams), a 40-year-old mergers and acquisitions lawyer with a permanent scowl on his face and a cellular phone in his belt. Banning has lost any memory of being Peter Pan, and he is also in danger of losing his wife Moira (Caroline Goodall) and two children, Jack (Charlie Korsmo) and Maggie (Amber Scott). Peter and his family travel to London to visit

Mar 21, 2000

TriStar Pictures

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All Critics (42) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (27) | DVD (19)

Hook is overwhelmed by a screenplay heavy with complicated exposition, by what are, in effect, big busy nonsinging, nondancing production numbers and some contemporary cant about rearing children and the high price paid for success.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times
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No matter how much cash Hook earns, it will take more than pixie dust to fly this overstuffed package into our dreams.

May 12, 2001 | Comments (15)
Rolling Stone
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Big, splashy, energetic, one-size-fits-all Hollywood entertainment.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post
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The exposition is so underlined and re-underlined, you could teach yourself to fly waiting for something to happen.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post
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Here we get the uncanny suspicion that Hook was written and directed according to the famous recipe of the country preacher who told the folks what he was going to tell them, told them, and then told them what he had told them.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comments (8)
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You just have to appreciate its creative angle toward Peter Pan and his world.

May 11, 2013 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed
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A clumsy mishmash of a comedy.

January 2, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

"Peter Pan" redo has its moments with Hoffman and Williams.

May 25, 2007
Video-Reviewmaster.com

muddled but fascinating

September 19, 2004
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Audience Reviews for Hook

The only movie about Peter Pan that I liked.
January 28, 2012
Lucas Martins

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Steven Spielberg, what have you done? You've made a fool of everyone.

Okay, maybe it's easy to make a fool of someone as silly as Robin Williams; but Dustin Hoffman? HOOK just isn't worth your time.
June 14, 2011
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    1. Jack Banning: BANG! BANG!
    2. Peter Banning/Peter Pan: Look, everybody just SHUT UP!
    3. Jack Banning: I'm sorry.
    – Submitted by Matthew D (4 months ago)
    1. Jack Banning: Dad, I want to go home.
    2. Captain James Hook: What are you talking about? You are home.
    – Submitted by Matthew D (4 months ago)
    1. Screaming Pirate: Wait! Ain't you-
    2. Peter Banning/Peter Pan: Peter Pan!
    3. Screaming Pirate: AAAAARRGHH! [jumps out of window]
    – Submitted by Alan Torres Dwyer B (11 months ago)
    1. Captain James Hook: MY JACK!
    – Submitted by Alan Torres Dwyer B (11 months ago)
    1. Captain James Hook: No stopping me this time, Smee. This is it. Don't make a move Smee, not a step. My finger's on the trigger. Don't try to stop me, Smee.
    2. Smee: Oh, not again.
    3. Captain James Hook: This is it. Don't try to stop me this time, Smee. Don't try to stop me this time, Smee. Don't you dare try to stop me this time, Smee, try to stop me. Smee, you'd better get up off your ass. Get over here, Smee!
    – Submitted by Sarah M (11 months ago)
    1. Rufio: You are a fart factory.
    – Submitted by Andrew K (14 months ago)

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Foreign Titles

  • Hook ou la revanche du capitaine crochet (FR)
  • Hook. El capitán Garfio (ES)
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