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Pocahontas

1995

Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg

Animation, Voice: Irene Bedard, Mel Gibson, Linda Hunt ...

6.0

86,503

Animation. Romance. Musical. Adventure. Kids Pocahontas is the daughter of Algonquin chief Powhatan, who promises her in marriage to Kocoum, a brave whom she doesn't love. Pocahontas would rather be paddling in her canoe or wandering in the forest, communing with nature and her animal pals, Meeko, a raccoon, and the hummingbird Flit. When European settlers arrive, she becomes enamored of handsome John Smith. But the situation between their peoples is tense, and only the love of ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Pocahontas' is the best-looking of the modern Disney animated features, and one of the more thoughtful (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"A film that's as great-looking as its heroine (...) Gloriously colorful, cleverly conceived and set in motion with the usual Disney vigor"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Disney deserves praise for raising the ante on its ambitions in animation. Next time, though, a little less civics lesson and a little more heart."	NEU
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"Their script recycles elements from 'Snow White' to 'The Lion King' (...) [It] feels like a marketing campaign with pictures rather than a movie"	NEG
United States	Jeremy Gerard Variety	"Pocahontas and John Smith are immensely appealing characters, and children should easily identify with them. It’s a terrific movie."	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Virtually everything in the movie — every character, every story twist, every song — is as generic as the two hygienic lovers"	NEG
United Kingdom	Alex von Tunzelmann The Guardian	"Disney's 'Pocahontas' is an immaculately researched visual production, but it loses points for whitewashing colonial history."	NEU
United States	Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune	"A surprisingly mature film (...) Thoughtful and beautifully drawn (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	David Hepworth Empire	"Not only historically dubious, but the dullest Disney animation for years"	NEG
United Kingdom	Brian Case Time Out	"The finale will please nobody, and the songs are duff. That said, there are enough incidental felicities to pass the time pleasantly."	NEU
United States	Peter Stack SFGATE	"In its most poignant and richly drawn work since the tender classic 'Bambi', Walt Disney Studios has fashioned a jewel of romance"	POS
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"The natives do talk, though, and in English no less, the rationale being that the film’s target audience can’t read (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Caroline Siede AV Club	"The film offers up some truly gorgeous sequences (...) and remains probably the most high profile story of a Native American in pop culture."	POS

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