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Summary: A more adult Disney
Review: I don't understand why people expect this film to be historically accurate. It was said again and again in all of the offical releases about it that it was based on the LEGEND of Pocahontas. Besides, it could never be historically accurate because historians disagree on the actual events. Does all this mean that we should be deprived of experiencing a marvolous film based on those events? I think not. This film is Disney's first serious attempt at growing up and presenting deeper, more realistic emotions into it's films. It was a courageous step taken in the most beautiful way. The songs are wonderful, moving and you're sure to be singing them long after the film has ended. My girpes with the film are it should have been longer, even more adult and If I Never Knew You should never have been cut. But these quibbles are just that, taken as what it is Pocahontas is an astonishing achievement, topped (posssibly) only by The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Disney needs to grow to survive and this was an excellent frist step. Do not let the naysayyers stop you from enjoying the greatest love story ever animated. Enjoy!
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Summary: It's Only A Cartoon!
Review: I know a lot of people who didn't like this movie because it completely twisted the facts of history. And we know that's true. However, speaking as a history buff, I have to say that those changes didn't hurt my enjoyment of this delightful piece of family entertainment. The music is solid and quite lovely, written by two professionals from Broadway, Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz. The story, while somewhat sappy for adults, will bring knowledge against prejudice to the young minds who watch it. The things young children view has a profound effect on the rest of their lives, so why not give them something with a message? I hardly consider this a great film, or a film that is in any way historical fiction. However, this film has many good and cute sides, and can't be judged to harshly for what it lacks.
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Summary: Great movie
Review: This is Disney's best movie ever. John and Pocahontas love is so sweet and true. And very forbidden because of some peoples prejustice. And I think that many people don't like this movie because they have the same prejustices as Governor Racliff (The bad guy). This movie is beautiful made, has great music and a fabulous plot. John Smith are make so beautiful that one can not help but fall in love with him at first sight. As Grandmother Willow says: " He has a clean spirit. And he is handsome, too." People will remember this movie and it will make a ever lasting impression on everyone when the love ones are forced to part because of the hate in other peoples hearts who can not see that ALL people are created equal and have the same rights NO matter their colour. If you don't cry for John and Pocahontas in the end of the movie then you must have a heart of stone.
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Summary: Balanced
Review: Though the movie was sooooo far off (historicaly) it was balanced out with the music. The plot was a little sappy, but the roles were well cast. So you see my opinion was that the movie was balanced.
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Summary: Listen to the Music
Review: There are many cultural problems with this story, but set those aside. This is one of Menken's triumphs..nearly seamless music from one end to the other, all inventive and inventively scored. These are not just set pieces, but a web of sound woven to the story. The animation is first rate. Mulan may have animation, but the total pales in comparison - the music is awful. Pocohontas is a triumph, much maligned by myopic critics who see, watch box offices, and do not hear.
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Summary: Not realistic
Review: This film couldn't have been any less realistic. Not only does it take an event in history and insult the hell out of it, but it makes it into a film with horrible songs. Not that I don't like musicals, cause I do, but the fact is the songs are weak in every possible area. Pocahontas, a young beautiful indian princess (who, in reality was about 12, and really ugly at that) falls in love with Captain John Smith. From that point on, it's a total WEST SIDE STORY cheap imitation. Of course, there's the climactic scene in which Pocahontas "saves" Smith's life, although historians now believe that may have been part of a Native American ritual. This film is Diseny's apology for all those Native American stereotypes, in which all indians dance around like schmucks and say things like "How, White Man!" The film is based on all those myths that grade-schoolers are taught to believe. Nice try, Dis, but you should really know better.
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Summary: Nice Music, Bad Plot
Review: I have nothing against Disney trying to inject some culture/information into kids, really I don't but I Do think they should try a little harder then this! I liked the music and apparently so did most of the adults in America, judging from the charts. But the movie was very unsatisfactory, hey I love happy endings and yeah I didn't enjoy when Pocahontas stayed while John Smith left, but the point is that Disney should have to warp history so much to teach it.
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Summary: BRING BACK TIGER LILLY!
Review: Disney's foray into political correctness is a boring BOMB! Both Pocahontas and John Smith look like characters straight out of a Stalinist painting! There's a thick line between "dignified" and "ridiculous-beyond-belief" that none of Uncle Walt's animators seem to know how to draw. They think it's O.K. to make fun of Europeans (you know, the usual cartoony loons) while "respecting" Indians by portraying them (all of them!) like professional wrestlers incapable of eliciting a laugh! Don't get me wrong, it's just that I think this "sublimation" demeans them just as well, if not more! Indians (Native Americans, if you prefer) are merely people, just like you and me. They're no better nor worse. They don't need your patronizing help, all they want is to be treated like equals! And when you set a double standard, whether well intentioned or not, you end up dehumanizing them all over again. Stop that! So, if you're lampooning the British, lampoon the Native Americans too! Don't you think they'll know it's a cartoon? And please, get rid of the cute sidekicks, i.e. hummingbirds, bulldogs, racoons et al. It's been done and it's getting quite tiresome!
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Summary: It's the score and songs that make it enjoyable
Review: I like the movie. It is not very true to history, but that is not the point of the movie. It has a very sappy love story that was just too sappy to fit in this more "serious" feature. Overall, I really liked it. It had a good message about natural conservation etc. It is the musical score and the songs that really shine in the film. They were very hearfelt, I believed. I listen to the soundtrack a lot!
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Summary: The most beautiful Disney movie
Review: Pocahontas is the best Disney film since Bambi. The wonderful songs and the perfect animation are the principal attraction of the movie. Pocahontas can speak english because she listens with her heart (it's a childish act to repel the movie for this cause). The best scene of the film: Pocahontas and John Smith first meeting in the waterfall. Definitively: 5 stars.
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