Pocahontas: Critic Reviews

Why make a Disney cartoon and take all the fun out of it?

Any damage such revisionist history may impose on young minds is offset by the honestly inspiring thoughts Pocahontas offers.

Imagine a cult Disney cartoon, for this may be it.

All Disney has really done in its disappointing 33rd animated feature is revive the stereotype of the Noble Savage.

As for the songs, they're guaranteed to keep your shoes glued to the floor

Pocahontas is the best-looking of the modern Disney animated features, and one of the more thoughtful: It is about real issues, even if it treats them with naive idealism.

Overall this seems like a reasonable stab at an impossible agenda.

The Disney artists have created a vivid palette for the picture.

Taking advantage of the studio's breathtakingly intricate animation, directors Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg have breathed vitality into this, the fifth 'new wave' Disney animated picture.

[A] handsome, deeply felt, even more deeply reverent animated musical.

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.

Adult viewers, spoiled by what has come before, may feel that this film, which relates the legendary romance between a chief's daughter and English adventurer John Smith in the New World, is more by-the-numbers than inspired.

Fine for kids; just don't expect a history lesson.

The film of the Disney Renaissance likeliest to elicit a shudder of dismay from all but the most maniacal Disney buffs.

Overall, Pocahontas is a triumph as a visual experience (though the music is unusually bland), but a disappointment as a film.

Not only historically dubious, but the dullest Disney animation for years.

Just about everything in this lavish, animated feature is for the pigtail set.

Forgettable.

Pocahontas can't get stirred dramatically for political correctness, the finale will please nobody, and the songs are duff. That said, there are enough incidental felicities to pass the time pleasantly.

One of the most scattered of the studio's famed animated features.

As long as Republicans are in power, the line "You think the only people who are people are the people who look and think like you" will remain relevant.

A good one to explain tolerance and diversity to the young ones in your family.

...being away from its high-powered predecessors, it has marched on well on its own.