Peter Pan in Return to Never Land (Walt Disney Pictures Presents) [VHS]

Peter Pan in Return to Never Land (Walt Disney Pictures Presents) [VHS]
by Robin Budd, Donovan Cook

Peter Pan in Return to Never Land (Walt Disney Pictures Presents) [VHS]
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Actor: Blayne Weaver, Corey Burton, Harriet Owen, Jeff Bennett, Kath Soucie
Director: Donovan Cook, Robin Budd
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 72 minutes
Release Date: 2002-08-20
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Publisher: Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Studio: Walt Disney Home Entertainment

VHS Movie Reviews of Peter Pan in Return to Never Land (Walt Disney Pictures Presents) [VHS]

Movie Review: Disappointing Second Visit with Peter
Summary: 3 Stars

While things haven't changed in Neverland, it's been years in our world. Wendy has grown up and has a daughter of her own. Jane (Harriet Owen) doesn't share her mother's fantasy world, however. As a young girl in London during World War II, she is all practicality and no fun.

But things change when she becomes the pawn in Captain Hook's (Corey Burton) latest plot to catch Peter Pan (Blayne Weaver). Hook thinks he's kidnapped Wendy, but Peter doesn't seem to care. He is excited to have Jane on the island. But Jane only wants to return home. Will she find a way? Will Hook get his ultimate revenge on Peter Pan?

As much as I love the original movie, I have been reluctant to watch this one. It looked like too much of a retread to me. And I was right. Oh, they tried to change things up some. And Jane's journey from cynic to faith is fun. But the Hook/Peter battles felt all too familiar. And the octopus filled in way too much for the crocodile, right down to the unexplained jerky ticking movements.

The animation was done in the old style, and I liked it. It wasn't flashy most of the time, but it felt like a continuation of the original. Likewise, the voice actors who took on the classic characters were remarkably accurate.

It's not that this is a bad film, but it's not all that great, either. Kids will enjoy it, but adult fans aren't missing anything if they skip it.

Movie Review: Peter Pan Returns to Never Land
Summary: 4 Stars

Quite pleased with this; I purchased it for the grands, and they love it. Would definitely recommend it to those who love Peter Pan.

Movie Review: Return to Never Land (Pixie-Powered Edition)
Summary: 5 Stars

My 3 yr. old Toddler loves this movie !!! We watch it (Too) often !!!!!

Movie Review: Military Fam hated it!
Summary: 1 Stars

I have a sweet 5 year old girl and a 2 1/2 year old boy. Their father is deployed and DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS MOVIE to any military families!!!! As a mother I should have viewed it first but I thought....I love Disney movies and that's all we watch and it's rated G! The main character Jane was a little too much for me. I kept thinking...please don't let my little girl immitate Jane. Not to mention the opening is a family saying goodbye to their father going off to war. Hit too close to home and my daughter doesn't understand 'war'. Did I already mention that I did not like the Jane character or the movie?

Movie Review: Deeply Stale
Summary: 3 Stars

Return to Neverland / B000VE4UBA

I like Disney sequels and prequels, I really do. At least sometimes. The Little Mermaid 2 and Ariel's Beginning were superb, as well as The Lion King 2, and each dealt carefully with issues that arose out of the previous movies. Return to Neverland, on the other hand, seems stale, flat, and dull - a soulless retread of the original.

The premise was a good one. Wendy's daughter, raised in a much more adult world, one defined by war, has no time for fairy tales. Robbed of a childhood, she is frustrated with her younger brother, and fears that the "silly nonsense" in his head may bring him to harm. When she finds herself transported by force into Neverland (in an absolutely eye-rollingly awful scene involving Hook, a flying ship, and a kidnapping scheme gone wrong), she is simply not ready to appreciate the fairy-tale-come-true world she finds herself in. Unfortunately, in order to leave, she must learn how to love Neverland, because only fairy dust (and faith!) will allow her to fly home.

With such a promising premise, it's hard to say how this movie went so wrong. The personalities seem to be sucked out of the characters. The Lost Boys are indistinguishable from one another (even more so than in the first movie), which is really just inexcusable when more recent efforts have shown that it doesn't need to be this way. Peter himself has no charm at all, none of the boyish delight that causes people to love him in spite of his faults. Tinkerbell has become a simpering sweet caricature of herself, apparently in preparation for her own movie in which Disney has decided to whitewash her into a sweet little fairy instead of the vibrant miniature woman Barrie imagined her to be. Hook has lost a great deal of character, too - where he was smooth, cruel, and calculating, he is now a bumbling fool and seems more comic relief than genuine menace. Apparently, this was an attempt to "tone down" the movie for younger audiences, but I do not believe it was a wise decision. Nor was the "swap" from crocodile to octopus, which is just painfully bad to watch.

You won't see much of Neverland here. The "Indian camp" has been razed to the ground, with nary a soul in sight, presumably because Disney couldn't figure out how to respectfully treat the natives and decided to bypass the issue. Again, more recent Peter Pan movies have managed to do this just fine, so it's a shame that Disney couldn't be bothered. Most of the sets - the mermaid lagoon, the tree house, the beach - fly by in quick succession as the paper-thin story plods along: Jane must be made to learn to relax and "have fun" before she can appreciate Neverland, believe in fairies (and save Tinkerbell's life), and go home. ("Faith!! Trust!! And pixie dust!!" is shouted so often that my teeth began to stand on edge.)

I had hoped this would be a pro-female movie, but without the "perfect princess" platform that Disney usually relies on. Jane seems a good candidate for a "just as good as a boy" type of story where Peter and Jane both realize that they have a lot to learn from each other (even if Peter cannot learn to be serious, he could at least confront his own internal issues with females). No attempt is made at mutual self-discovery, however - Jane is "taught" that she needs to lighten up and stop being so serious and that's the end of it. The superficial "lesson" leaves the viewer unsatisfied and it would have been better if a little more depth had been expended to highlight the fact that there is a time and a place for both silliness AND seriousness, and that one must be wise to know which is which.

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Summary of Peter Pan in Return to Never Land (Walt Disney Pictures Presents) [VHS]

The magical enchantment of Peter Pan is back in RETURN TO NEVER LAND, "a charming successor to the classic" (Julie Washington, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland). Moviegoers of all ages were dazzled by this all-new adventure full of as much fun, fantasy, and flight as the original! Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, Captain Hook, and Smee return -- and you'll meet Jane, Wendy's skeptical daughter, who has outgrown her mother's childhood tales of Peter Pan. Jane no longer believes in magic or fairy tales. But when Captain Hook's pirate ship swoops down upon London and carries Jane off to Never Land, her imagination is set free by Peter Pan himself! The crafty pirate sets a trap for Peter Pan and Tink and only Jane can help. It is up to her to call upon "faith, trust, and pixie dust" to take flight to save Peter and all of Never Land. Featuring marvelous animation, all-new music, and high-flying adventure from start to finish, RETURN TO NEVER LAND is fantastic Disney fun for the young and young at heart. You'll want to return to Never Land again and again!
Unlike Disney's other sequels to their classic films, this follow-up to the 1953 version of Peter Pan debuted in theaters. World War II has turned Wendy's preteen daughter, Jane, into a realist, a girl who insists there's no need for stories and fun while London is crumbling. Hook kidnaps Jane (thinking she's Wendy) and returns to "the second star to the right" to foil Pan. Alas, the film doesn't build on this new story line (the London scenes have the most emotional impact), and what follows is a thin reworking of the original. On the plus side, a clever octopus takes over from that old crocodile, and Jane turns out to be a solid--and modern--role model. Those from ages 4 to 9 who have been brought up on the original should enjoy these adventures, even if the story, like Peter himself, "hasn't grown up." The 72-minute film is shown with the delightful 1948 short "Pluto's Fledgling." --Doug Thomas

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