Hook
Steven Spielberg may have been disappoint with his work on his 1991 directorial effortHook , but over time , audiences have fall around to embracing the Peter Pan picture show . After a helter-skelter output that sawfilming going over - schedule , Hookdebuted on December 11 , 1991 to immense fanfare , but ended up being a box part dashing hopes . Though profitable by grossing $ 300.9 million on a $ 70 million budget , Hookmade far less than expected . vital response was also far more mixed than common for a movie helmed Steven Spielberg . However , the movie has developed a cult follow over the years , givingHookthe happy end it deserves .
The premiss forHookconcerned a grown - up version ofPeter Panknown as Peter Banning ( Robin Williams ) , who ’s now a workaholic lawyer with two nipper of his own . ban has forgotten about ever being Peter Pan , but the turth comes yaup back into his life once his minor are kidnap byCaptain Hook(Dustin Hoffman ) . With the help of Tinker Bell ( Julia Roberts ) , ban return to Neverland . Now he has only three days ' time to regain his Peter Pan powers , a task that will require the help of the Lost Boys , who are now being led by Rufio ( Dante Basco ) . Such an enterprisingness will also necessitate the nose - to - the - grindstone attorney Peter Banning to think back the mogul of imagination .
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Spielberg has convey retrospective regret over how he executedHook’sstory . However , audience have come to feel quite differently aboutHook — including the parts that revolutionise the most disappointment in Spielberg .
In the last decade , Steven Spielberghas made it no secret his sentiment on howHookturned out . A 2011 interview with Entertainment Weekly , Spielberg described how he felt comfortable with the open scenes take an grownup Peter Pan in the real world , but then express soreness with how he handled the centering of the Neverland successiveness .
" … today … I would have probably done [ Neverland ] with live - natural action characters in a wholly digital set . But we did n’t have technology to do it then and my imagination only went as far as … [painting ] trees blue and red . " ( viaEntertainment Weekly )
Among those elements are the operation of character in Neverland . Dustin Hoffman ’s go - for - broke public presentation as Captain Hook , for example , has been herald as entertaining even byHook’sdetractors . Robin Williams ' performance as the full - restored Peter Pan has become similarly beloved . Most adored of all the Neverland residents , though , is the quality of Rufio , whose popularity result in a light photographic film prequel , Bangarang , in 2017 . Meanwhile , several scenes involving Peter and The Lost Boys , including one where they engage in an fanciful dinner , have been wide cited as unforgettably entertaining . Clearly , there ’s a tidy sum in the Neverland sequences ofHookthat have bring off to deep resonate with audiences . WhileSpielbergmay see this movie as a letdown , audiences have managed to see the magic withinHook’sunique vision of the Peter Pan mythos .
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