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Pocahontas
G (AUSTRALIA)
1995
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Positive Reviews
21
Negative reviews
9
Average Rating
3.1
/5
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3.8
Pocahontas is the best looking of the modern Disney animated features, and one of the more thoughtful: It is about real issues, even if it treats them ..
Rogerebert
3.0
This is a movie less concerned with booing the bad guys as it is with cheering on the heroes.
Common Sense Media
1.5
The British settlers only want gold, but whether theyre all as villainous (Connolly voices one) as mustachioed Gov Ratcliffe and his decadent pug isnt ..
Time Out
1.9
Compare Simon van de Passes 1616 portrait of Pocahontas, the only one made during the Algonquian Native Americans lifetime, with the beatific interpre ..
3.5
The rousing action sequences are brief but compelling counterpoints to the beautiful simplicity of the piece.The animation is wonderful.
2.0
Disneys well meaning solemnity seeps over the characters like spilled ink.
E Film Critic
3.8
With an original score by Alan Menken and Gilbert and Sullivan ish songs by Menken and lyricist Stephen Schwartz, the movie is the cartoon equivalent ..
San Francisco Chronicle
5.0
The film, laced with inspired humor, is aimed as much at adults as it is at kids.
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
The story is clearly told, the effort is undeniable, but it doesnt stick with you like the classics.
5.0
The filmmakers have created a heroine whose soul and spirit are worth emulating.
Spirituality And Practice
4.4
Children everywhere will flock to see it, accompanied by adults who rightfully recognize Disney animated films as solid entertainment for the over ten ..
ReelViews
3.0
Despite the mish mash of styles and ideas, Pocahontas is still entertaining enough to make it worth a look.
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.0
The story is a very powerful.The music is top notch and the animation is beautiful.
Lariat
4.4
Its true that the plotting and characters are simplistic, the animal gags are silly and the sensibility is very New Age hey, this is a cartoon.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
3.0
The story is clearly told, the effort is undeniable, but it doesnt stick with you like the classics.
Empire
3.5
...being away from its high powered predecessors, it has marched on well on its own.
Flim Threet
1.0
Ah, innocence! these days, can a movie be made on that subject, or any other, without stepping into a puddle of trouble
Time
5.0
The quasi historical basis of the film sets it apart from the fantasy and whimsy that usually dominates Disney animated features, and the animators fu ..
Mr Brown Movies
2.5
Adult viewers, spoiled by what has come before, may feel that this film, which relates the legendary romance between a chiefs daughter and English adv ..
Calendar Live
3.1
The 1995 animated musical is the Lies My Teacher Told Me version of American history, but at least its mostly concerned with the benign end of promoti ..
Groucho Reviews
3.8
Overall, POCAHONTAS is a triumph as a visual experience (though the music is unusually bland), but a disappointment as a film.
Movies Tv Guide
2.5
The film of the Disney Renaissance likeliest to elicit a shudder of dismay from all but the most maniacal Disney buffs.
Antagony & Ecstasy
1.5
Overall this seems like a reasonable stab at an impossible agenda.
Chicago Reader
3.5
Add a love story that has a genuinely bittersweet ending, and you get uncommonly mature entertainment.
Articles Chicago Tribune
3.5
Pocahontas is a touching tribute to the power of loyalty, courage, cooperation, and, more than anything else, sympathetic understanding.
Movie Metropolis
2.0
Production Its kind of a mystery why Pocahontas doesnt work with all the resources that were thrown into it.
rachelsreviews.net
4.5
This is a real womans life. And now, the cultural event that is a Disney blockbuster has coopted that life.
Los Angeles Free Press
3.5
Pocahontas isnt an A movie in the Disney catalog, but its a solid second tier film that, despite its romanticizing of the noble savage, nonetheless fe ..
Movie Metropolis
1.5
Its comic characters are paltry; its villain is a bloated, harmless Captain Hook; and its story line is negligible as well as palpably silly.
Hartford Courant
1.5
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Film Scouts
1.5
Just about everything in this lavish, animated feature is for the pigtail set.
Msnbc
3.5
Disney is always great about re releasing their classics, but each time, something new is in store.This fully restored and remastered animated story i ..
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