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HOOK. In this bloated fantasy, a middle-aged Peter Pan (Robin Williams) regains his youth battling a drawling Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman). Steven Spielberg's zillionth reworking of his lost-children theme is a Spruce Goose of a movie: so big, so long, so pretty . . . it just...
CINEMA Hook, Steven Spielberg's Peter Pan remake, doesn't have wings...
HOOK Directed by Steven Spielberg...
Whew. No wonder the guy has trouble getting off the ground. He's carrying too much baggage. And so is Steven Spielberg's movie, which starts out deceptively, that is, wonderfully, with a school production of the original Peter Pan -- cardboard scenery and sweetly earnest little players, faces scrunched by the effort of remembering their lines. This is the director at his formidable best, tenderly evoking the spirit of childhood...
Since so many of Spielberg's movies have dealt with abandoned or abducted children (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Empire of the Sun, just to name the top of the line), no one can doubt the director's emotional attachment to his material. It's just that he has chosen the wrong way to demonstrate it. In effect, he has spoiled his brainchild rotten. Hook is not bratty, which might at least have been fun. It's stuffy, like one of those overdressed rich kids, standing forlorn in the corner...