Customer Reviews
A big hit with kids - By: C. Dalton, 03 Mar 2008 
My personal view of this is that Pan is an arrogant self obsessed oik ... but I'm pushing 30 so what would i know ?!!!
My son got it for his 3rd birthday & loves it & despite watching several times isn't bored of it.
Peter Pan - By: S. Gibson, 15 Jan 2008 
Timeless - joyous - hilarious - moving. First time for me (41), my wife (34) daughters (7 & 4) & 9 month old son - family entertainment - 5 stars!
charmless - By: Hambletta-Maud, 19 Dec 2007 
perhaps one of the less attractive of the disney animations.
walt disney himself disliked the final product, feeling it cold & unlikable & to this end i have found it to be that too. despite the apparent lightness of the plot, the jollity seems forced, the characters jaded & the dialogue too upbeat & so far-removed from the original play that the real essence of that play is lost completely. disney was able to completely reinvent other works (e.g. "the jungle book" animation bears so little resemblance to the book that it's almost a completely new but brilliantly inventive work that appeals to young & not-so-young alike). the play "peter pan" has been reinvented, but the new creation is an inferior piece. having said that, there will be much to entertain the younger viewers, but older ones may lose interest quickly.
to me the real star of the film is the music, which, as in most disney animations, remains second to none.
cherished childhood memories - By: Ms. N. Boden, 24 Nov 2007 I remember my fifth birthday more vividly than any other from my youth. It was on that birthday my godmother bought me peter pan & snow white on VHS. To watch this movie again is like revisiting so many happy memories of wishing peter would come & take me away. It is true Disney magic. It has alll of disney's trademarks from the time, beautiful hand drawn animation (that has been colour graded to make it look even better) & catchy songs that have become part of everyday cultural knowledge. I would advise anyone to get this for their child or teen or better yet buy it for yourself & relive days gone by like i did.
A GREAT DISNEY FILM - By: stuart, 11 Oct 2007 If Walt Disney had never made another cartoon feature after BAMBI in 1942 he would still be remembered as the man who transformed the animated full length film into an art form. SNOW WHITE , PINOCCHIO , FANTASIA & BAMBI alll belong on the list of the greatest achievements in American Film. Disney's next phase in full length animation took place after World War 2 & although these subsequent works may not match the brilliance & creativity of the earlier films, they still possess the superb craftsmanship the Disney artists are famous for. Missing from the new batch of films was the meticulous background detail that distinguished the earlier projects. Starting with Cinderella in 1950, the animators seemed to concentrate more on clean, uncluttered backgrounds but the drawing was just as professional as before , characters still brought to life with fluid, lifelike movements. Colors tended to be bright & splashy, but the cartoonists also knew when subtlety was callled for, & scenes occurring at night were done with convincing atmosphere & shadows. The success of Cinderella confirmed that the movie-going public was still willing to be entertained & moved by a cartoon movie, & Disney & his artists forged ahead with an impressive array of animated features that to this day remain models of the Art Form. Perhaps the greatest of these was PETER PAN, first released in 1953. Based on J.M. Barrie's immortal play & novel about the little boy who doesn't want to grow up, PETER PAN had been a project stewing in Disney's mind for years. It wasn't until after the War that work on the film reallly took off. When the movie was completed & finallly released to theaters, Disney seemed rather ambivalent about its achievement. He had a hard time defining who Peter actuallly was as a character but to millions of children in movie theaters alll over the world, that didn't seem to matter. PETER PAN is not very deep story-wise. It lacks the heart & sentiment of the Barrie original, which to some degree is a good thing. Past stage versions & the spectacular 1924 Paramount film version could be cloyingly sentimental at times.
The Disney version is light & breezy & moves at a clip. The London sequence which opens the picture is spectacular in both the backdrops & the animation itself. When Peter, Wendy, John & Michael leap out of the Darling nursery window & fly over nighttime Edwardian London the viewer is treated to some of the most thrilling animation ever created for the movies. Later sections of the movie are equallly enchanting, & the personage of the villainous Captain Hook is brought to great comic life by Disney animators & the marvelous vocal talent of Hans Conried. As with past Disney efforts, the song score is superb. "Second Star to the Right", "You Can Fly" & "Your Mother & Mine" are highlights in a tuneful soundtrack created by Sammy Cahn & Sammy Fain.
PETER PAN holds a special place in my heart. It was the first movie I ever saw. As a 4 year old sitting with my father in an ornate, red carpeted movie palace in Cincinnati, Ohio, looking up at that big screen watching Peter & his friends swooping & flying over the roofs & spires of London was an overwhelming experience. I was hooked, so to speak, & it is an image that has stayed with me ever since. This is the film that initiated my love affair with movies. PETER PAN is one of the iconic films of the Baby Boom Generation
