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It's my review for the movie "Hook" starring Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, and Dustin Hoffman.
Rick's favorite movie was on Yesterday and I decided to give it a watch. I've seen it before and always found it to be a who's gives a shit movie, but since Pig has it as his favorite movie ever I thought I'd take a closer look.
First act starts out interestingly enough. I kind of liked how Peter Pan is an adult and has no memory of Neverland. It's a twist on the story we know using the preexisting characters, although beaten to death these days this is 1991 and is a novel concept so I'll grade on a curve. Peter had left Neverland sometime after the story we know and was found by a now elderly Wendy who recognized him and sent him from London to San Francisco to be adopted...? I guess Robin Williams couldn't do a decent British accent so they wrote that into the script. Wendy is his wife's grandmother and is implied to still love him, kinky. Peter is a big shot corporate lawyer who isn't exactly mister family man and misses his son's baseball game. We're not 15 minutes into the movie and the clichés and lazy plot devices are flying at the audience. Now that I've written this much out I take it back, I don't like anything, the movie sucks. I mean his name is Peter Banning because the movie couldn't be more on the nose.
Anyways, Hook's bitch Smee somehow kidnaps Peter's kids, Wendy tells him he's the Peter from the story and only he can save them, Julia Roberts in a bad haircut shows up and lugs his ass to Neverland, Hook doesn't believe he's Peter Pan and then for little to no reason does believe he's Peter Pan, Robin Williams complains and adult cries for like 30 minutes and is needlessly incompetent. Eventually he ends up with the lost boys and there's about 20 of them. Kids in movies are unbearable and I have no idea why the producers felt he need to put so many in, but in Pat's case I'm beginning to see why he enjoys it so much
There are quite a few negro children in this movie. Did they excite Pat and cause him to beg Niki for the strap on or did they cause his mouth to start watering fantasizing about the deli meats he could create? My belief is that they are a big reason why he likes this goddamn movie so much. They have a food fight and it's there when I turned the TV off. I don't know how it ends and I don't care. Robin Williams is totally devoid of his usual on screen presence and the sets look like they're from a bad TV show.
I give this movie a 0 Slaps out of Child.
My understanding of the Peter Pan story (stories? I think it's a series of books) is that boys need to grow up into men. This movie is basically the opposite of that and that men need to learn to be kids again to find happiness. Peter can't get his powers back to fight Hook until he learns to play, I shit you not. Seeing as Pig is the embodiment of the man-child who refuses to grow up this movie must really resonate with him.
Rick's favorite movie was on Yesterday and I decided to give it a watch. I've seen it before and always found it to be a who's gives a shit movie, but since Pig has it as his favorite movie ever I thought I'd take a closer look.
First act starts out interestingly enough. I kind of liked how Peter Pan is an adult and has no memory of Neverland. It's a twist on the story we know using the preexisting characters, although beaten to death these days this is 1991 and is a novel concept so I'll grade on a curve. Peter had left Neverland sometime after the story we know and was found by a now elderly Wendy who recognized him and sent him from London to San Francisco to be adopted...? I guess Robin Williams couldn't do a decent British accent so they wrote that into the script. Wendy is his wife's grandmother and is implied to still love him, kinky. Peter is a big shot corporate lawyer who isn't exactly mister family man and misses his son's baseball game. We're not 15 minutes into the movie and the clichés and lazy plot devices are flying at the audience. Now that I've written this much out I take it back, I don't like anything, the movie sucks. I mean his name is Peter Banning because the movie couldn't be more on the nose.
Anyways, Hook's bitch Smee somehow kidnaps Peter's kids, Wendy tells him he's the Peter from the story and only he can save them, Julia Roberts in a bad haircut shows up and lugs his ass to Neverland, Hook doesn't believe he's Peter Pan and then for little to no reason does believe he's Peter Pan, Robin Williams complains and adult cries for like 30 minutes and is needlessly incompetent. Eventually he ends up with the lost boys and there's about 20 of them. Kids in movies are unbearable and I have no idea why the producers felt he need to put so many in, but in Pat's case I'm beginning to see why he enjoys it so much
There are quite a few negro children in this movie. Did they excite Pat and cause him to beg Niki for the strap on or did they cause his mouth to start watering fantasizing about the deli meats he could create? My belief is that they are a big reason why he likes this goddamn movie so much. They have a food fight and it's there when I turned the TV off. I don't know how it ends and I don't care. Robin Williams is totally devoid of his usual on screen presence and the sets look like they're from a bad TV show.
I give this movie a 0 Slaps out of Child.
My understanding of the Peter Pan story (stories? I think it's a series of books) is that boys need to grow up into men. This movie is basically the opposite of that and that men need to learn to be kids again to find happiness. Peter can't get his powers back to fight Hook until he learns to play, I shit you not. Seeing as Pig is the embodiment of the man-child who refuses to grow up this movie must really resonate with him.
