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  Review by Daniel Bigler ★★★★½ 32

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  One of those rare cinematic curiosities where you can tell instantly how old someone was when they first saw the film based upon their reaction to it today.

  It goes like this: almost without exception, those who first saw Hook as an adult will—by virtue of being a horrible grown-up—completely and utterly loathe the film, detesting everything it represents about cinema today. They will deride Hook as bloated and indulgent; treacly Spielbergian sentimentality run amuck; and, worst of all—*gasp*—totally made-up, phooey, ridiculous make-believe kid nonsense. (Don't feel bad for them; that's just typical of grown-ups.)

  Meanwhile, those of us who first saw Hook as kids... well, the truth of it is we can't help but adore the utter crap out…

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  Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★★½

  One of the most endearing and likable bad movies I've seen :)

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★ 16

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  There's a lot to dislike about this movie– so much so that apparently Spielberg doesn't even love it himself– but I think it's magical. Julia Roberts having fun! Incredible production design that feels like a Universal Studios live show! Outstanding cameos! (Glenn Close?? Phil Collins?? David Crosby?? Jimmy Buffet?? George Lucas and Carrie Fisher for some reason????) An all-time iconic performance from Dustin Hoffman! If I had just one (1) more beer in me, the scene where the little boy says "Oh there you are Peter" would've brought a tear to my eye. Spielberg brings a sense of fantasy and whimsy to so many other projects, it's great to just see him take that style right to a straight-up fantasy.…

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  Review by David Sims ★★½ 4

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  poor Rufio has to die spouting Spielberg daddy issues YOU'RE A SKATEBOARDING PIRATE KING MAN REVEL IN IT

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  Review by comrade_yui ★★★ 18

  if you despise hook, you have no heart.

  if you love hook, you have no brain.

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  Review by scream queen 🇵🇸 ★★★★

  tag urself i'm hook being dramatically suicidal

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★ 3

  True story: I saw this film in the theater in 1991. My whole family went. I was beyond excited--the guy who made Indiana Jones doing a Peter Pan movie? What could be better? I was 10 years old.

  Right after the big climactic sword fight between Pan and Captain Hook, the film caught fire in the projector. At least in my memory, you actually saw the film disintegrate on the screen. After a few minutes, the whole crowd (a packed house) started getting restless. Finally, the manager came in and apologized. The projector was broken, and it took the last reel with it. Everyone would get a refund. But we wouldn't see the end.

  And I don't know that I…

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  Review by Jake Cole ★½ 5

  Perhaps cinema's greatest monument to divorce, in which a filmmaker who'd just emerged from one of the most expensive splits of all time makes a movie in which he realizes not long after filming commences that this is a doomed project and can only think to solve the problem by throwing more and more money at it to make it go away. But at long last, the master and pioneer of blockbuster spectacle rolls snake eyes on the production design, making things so big that any possible imagination collapses into incomprehensible bricolages of wooden tracks Escherian docks held together by an edit that absolutely careens between half-developed subplots until two arduous hours later you arrive, deflated and defeated, at a…

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  Review by Quintin ★★★ 1

  Hold on! Is no one going to talk about how Peter smacked cheeks with his wife's grandmother?

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  Review by anna ★

  hey does anyone know if a divorced middle aged man made this movie

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  Review by ☆ sophie ☆ ★★★½ 10

  John Williams' score for this is like a combination of Home Alone (Main Theme), Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones (Across the Stars), and Harry Potter (Harry's Wonderous World).

  I'm so mad at my parents for not showing me this movie when I was younger. What if the boy who never grew up... did? Hook is not perfect, but it takes a unique twist on a classic story and works very well for it. As an older Peter Pan, Robin Williams is perfect and takes this film to places it may not have gone without him. The set design is vibrant and gives you the feeling of wonder that brings you into this realm of fantasy. There are…

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  Review by Chris Evangelista ★★★ 1

  A mess, but it’s a Spielberg mess, which means it has its moments.