Pocahontas

Pocahontas — 5

I really wonder what the hell happened to Disney. One movie was fricken awesome, and then they just degraded downhill. Every once in a while they get something right like Lilo & Stitch but for the most part Disney seems to have come to their peak, ran out of ideas and thought that copy and pasting with a little bit of frankensteining pieces together would work for them.
Now this movie was not terrible, but for a Disney film it left much to be desired.

First off the songs seemed like they didn’t belong except for one in the middle of the movie which probably everyone has heard since I believe they used to play it on the radio. But all of the other songs seemed like someone was offbeat, or it just didn’t fit the feel of the scene at hand. For example Pocahontas is rowing down an almost white rapid river singing about love, and it just doesn’t seem to fit the feel of the song, and that’s just one of the many songs.

Now what they did get right, or at least I am assuming they got it right since I don’t know their culture very well, are the Native Americans. They really seemed to get a good feel for them and their culture, I was actually quite surprised. But they did seem to mess up on the English a little bit though. But you know what, white people are assholes and for some reason, they are damned proud of it. So I guess that’s the angle they were going for and it worked with what the movie had to offer.

Talking trees freak me the fuck out. They freaked me out in Lord of the Rings and they freak me out in this. Talking tress will always freak me out. I don’t like it and I have no idea why they need to keep on putting these things in movies.

One thing I found was a love/hate relationship with this movie was Pocahontas’s furry and feathered friends. Half of the time they were actually funny, the other times they were way more of an annoyance to the movie itself. Yes I am aware that Disney likes to show the animals to kids while you Adults listen to the plot in the background, I can accept that. But its seems like this was taken too far.

All in all it’s not terrible, but it’s pretty bad for a Disney movie. You can easily avoid this movie if you are looking for Disney gold because you won’t find it here. Go watch a Pixar movie instead.

Base Score = 6
-1 for songs that seemed out of place
+1 getting cultures right
-1 for Treants (Talking Trees)
= 5/10

Last updated: 2010-01-02 11:15:05 by user03