Pocahontas (1995)
Country: US
Technical: col 81m
Director: Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg
Cast: Voicecast: Mel Gibson, Irene Bedard, Linda Hunt
Synopsis:
An energetic young sailor on a voyage to the New World meets the local chief's beautiful, free-spirited daughter, and their love prevents internecine conflict between the natives and their European despoilers.
Review:
Disney's contribution to the post-Dances with Wolves collective guilty consciousness boasts a familiar square-jawed hero and conveniently British villainy courtesy of a rebooted Hook and Smee; meanwhile the animal kingdom in the shape of racoon, humming bird and pug dog caper and delight the tots in the audience. Fortunately for this bowdlerised version of history (Pocahontas actually came to England and died very young in Gravesend), the animators adopt a faux-naïf portrayal of the primeval forests of Virginia, and the Native American iconography recalls primitive cave paintings; a pity Pocahontas herself has an easy Californian beauty, with her black mane of hair and tanned legs. The songs, with one exception, are anodyne in the extreme.
Country: US
Technical: col 81m
Director: Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg
Cast: Voicecast: Mel Gibson, Irene Bedard, Linda Hunt
Synopsis:
An energetic young sailor on a voyage to the New World meets the local chief's beautiful, free-spirited daughter, and their love prevents internecine conflict between the natives and their European despoilers.
Review:
Disney's contribution to the post-Dances with Wolves collective guilty consciousness boasts a familiar square-jawed hero and conveniently British villainy courtesy of a rebooted Hook and Smee; meanwhile the animal kingdom in the shape of racoon, humming bird and pug dog caper and delight the tots in the audience. Fortunately for this bowdlerised version of history (Pocahontas actually came to England and died very young in Gravesend), the animators adopt a faux-naïf portrayal of the primeval forests of Virginia, and the Native American iconography recalls primitive cave paintings; a pity Pocahontas herself has an easy Californian beauty, with her black mane of hair and tanned legs. The songs, with one exception, are anodyne in the extreme.
Country: US
Technical: col 81m
Director: Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg
Cast: Voicecast: Mel Gibson, Irene Bedard, Linda Hunt
Synopsis:
An energetic young sailor on a voyage to the New World meets the local chief's beautiful, free-spirited daughter, and their love prevents internecine conflict between the natives and their European despoilers.
Review:
Disney's contribution to the post-Dances with Wolves collective guilty consciousness boasts a familiar square-jawed hero and conveniently British villainy courtesy of a rebooted Hook and Smee; meanwhile the animal kingdom in the shape of racoon, humming bird and pug dog caper and delight the tots in the audience. Fortunately for this bowdlerised version of history (Pocahontas actually came to England and died very young in Gravesend), the animators adopt a faux-naïf portrayal of the primeval forests of Virginia, and the Native American iconography recalls primitive cave paintings; a pity Pocahontas herself has an easy Californian beauty, with her black mane of hair and tanned legs. The songs, with one exception, are anodyne in the extreme.