Hook is one of those films that must have looked pretty good on paper, but just hasn't worked very well as a film, for some reason. A continuation of Peter Pan, Hook finds the boy who refused to grow up now a middle-aged, married accountant type who is too preoccupied with work to tend to his kids. However, when the kids are somehow kidnapped by Captain Hook and taken back to Never Never Land, Peter Pan is forced to return to the land he had long forgot. Both Robin Williams, as Peter Pan, and Dustin Hoffman, as Captain Hook play their parts very well, with Hoffman clearly relishing the chance to play a despicable baddie. The sets are also beautiful and the plot has a good number of twists and turns. For some reason though, this film did not captivate me. Maybe it's the fact that it's about an hour too long or that the story is so unbelievable and at times too slushy and sickly sweet, I don't know. Maybe it's just one of those films that doen't appeal to adults, but is loved by children. All in all, a good idea gone horribly wrong. They could have done so much better!
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