Growing Up is for Grown-Ups: A Trip Back to Neverland
“Tootles lost his marbl—Doh!”
Tootles lost his marbles. Ugh, six-year-old TJ was partially retarded himself, apparently, for not picking up on that joke. (Although I might be setting the bar a little high for the kid. He was six.) Hell, I didn’t even figure out how to snap my fingers until I was 19, so I’m not sure how handy I was with double entendres back in Boyz II Men’s heyday.
Is that a brothel?
Yeah, I’m pretty sure those are working girls.
Eesh. Slim pickings in Neverland, I guess. (Heyo!)
Peter Banning’s speech is pretty great
In context, this speech was surprisingly moving to me, and I’ve sort of been into this sort of thing lately. Six-year-old Teej wasn’t burdened with too many pesky emotions, I guess.
Those pirates are a bit more incompetent than I remember
The jubilation of one clumsy pirate almost cut this movie’s running time in half. For wanting a war with Peter Pan so bad, you’d think Hook and his crew would do a better job of keeping him alive long enough to pick up a sword.
“Whoopsie! I hope this doesn’t affect that war against Corey Feldman everyone’s yelling about…”
How did Hook steal the kids?
I never thought to ask the question before, and Hook’s methods are clearly supernatural, but they never really tell us how Hook managed to travel outside of Neverland, or how Wendy sensed his presence at her dedication ceremony. I’m probably looking too far into it, but that’s a back-story I’d be interested to hear. And if you’re ready for the most jarring analogy ever, I sort of feel the same way about this info as I do about The Plague’s missing back-story in Hobo with a Shotgun.
There are negative reviews?
Rotton Tomatoes gives Hook a 29% score in positive reviews. I know I’m waist-deep in euphoric nostalgia right now, but this seems a bit low, yeah? Ah, well. If you got this far, then you appreciate Hook enough to indulge me in this trip down memory lane. See you on the other side.
Ahhhh… this is one of my most favorite movies ever.
Also, you’d be surprised at how many cameo appearances are in this movie. I mean, check out Glen Close http://www.themakeupgallery.info/images/gender/male/hookgc2.jpg
This has always been one of my favorite movies. Screw the dissenters!
Yeah I loved this movie growing up…still do. Timeless.
Yeah about half a year ago I found out my girlfriend had never seen hook. We so happened to be in target so I took it upon myself to change this and booked it to the cheap movies section, where Hook is always sitting there for five bucks. That was a good night, such a great movie.
I freaking LOVE this movie. I know, I was shocked to find out that it did horribly and apparently nobody liked it. What’s not to like? The music is phenomenal, Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams rocked. Just the IDEA itself was awesome. When VHS became so outdated that I finally decided that I needed to toss the old unit, Hook was a movie I immediately replaced in DVD format.
After all, what would the world be like without Captain Hook??
“Hook” being certified “Rotten” just goes to show that film critics are nothing but useless leeches on society. Honestly, how dare they?
Also: I didn’t get the “marbles” pun either. Gosh, do I feel dumb.
Well, I’m happy for you and everybody else who likes this one, but I’m afraid I’m on the critics’ side on this one: an uncomfortable, largely incoherent mess of a movie. (And I’m a big Robin Williams fan!)
Name TJ…6 years old when Hook came out…nostalgic about this whole damn movie…
holy crap, are you me?