![]() Once in London, Peter and Moira take Granny Wendy out for her very special evening, only to return home to find their children gone. Peter’s colleagues wish him a safe flight to London ending with a very hammy “Don’t let your arms get tired!”, and Peter’s wife Moira comments that she will get him back to London “by hook or by crook”. There are nice little jokes thrown in for good measure to make it very clear that this unlikely man is Peter Pan. Before that, however, everything is a blur. Peter can only remember his later childhood with Wendy, where she rescued him as a 12-year-old orphan and found an American couple to adopt him. Granny Wendy (Maggie Smith) is having a wing at Great Ormond Street Hospital dedicated to her, and Peter must be there to give a speech – which he actually gets a colleague of his to write. It all begins with Peter Banning (an ever-wonderful performance by Robin Williams) rushing frantically around his office with his phone stuck permanently to his ear, missing his son’s baseball games as he prepares for a trip to London. ![]() The film tackles the simple question: what if Peter Pan grew up? The answer: he became an overweight, over-worked American businessman with zero time for his family and no recollection of his adventurous past. Audiences were left underwhelmed and disappointed by Spielberg’s take on the classic story of Peter Pan, with it even managing to have a woeful 30% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.Īs the 142-minute run-time suggests, Hook may be classed as a family film but it is without a doubt aimed at the grownups. Roger Ebert described it as “a lugubrious retread of a once-magical idea”. Instead, it somehow managed to completely flop. With Steven Spielberg at the helm and a ridiculously strong cast of Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Bob Hoskins, and Julia Roberts, Hook should have been the standout Hollywood success story of 1991.
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