Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 38
Fresh: 11 | 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.
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
PG, 2 hr. 16 min.
Action & Adventure, Kids & Family, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Dec 11, 1991 Wide
Mar 21, 2000
TriStar Pictures
All Critics (41) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (13) | 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.
No matter how much cash Hook earns, it will take more than pixie dust to fly this overstuffed package into our dreams.
Big, splashy, energetic, one-size-fits-all Hollywood entertainment.
The exposition is so underlined and re-underlined, you could teach yourself to fly waiting for something to happen.
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.
A clumsy mishmash of a comedy.
"Peter Pan" redo has its moments with Hoffman and Williams.
muddled but fascinating
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, 2011Super Reviewer
I hated this movie, ruined Peter Pan for me, if you haven't seen it, I beg you to not ever see it, Spielbergs worst of al time in my opinion.
August 15, 2011
Super Reviewer
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