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Pocahontas | Classification: Feature Film Family Directed: - Mike Gabriel - Eric Goldberg Actors/Actresses: - Vanessa Williams - Mel Gibson - Christian Bale - Linda Hunt Disney's Pocahontas Gold Collection DVD Pocahontas is a good tale that deserves to have the Disney name. While far from the most entertaining in the Disney library, this one does have some of the most spectacular animation and imagery then any of them! The film is definatley not for the very young, there is much war violence (superficial, yes, but it's still there), including some blood-free shot wounds. The story is much more mature oriented, with Pocahontas trying to end the war between her people and the white-men for the sake of her love for John Smith. The film has many songs, but only a few stand out - -Oscar Award Winner "Colors Of The Wind" is one of them, "Around the River Bend", and "If I Never Knew You" is the other - - the rest are catchy, but unmemorable numbers. The "Gold Classic Collection" DVD edition of the 1995 film, has a mediocre picture. There is constant grain, and it is rarely perfectly clear. On the plus side, the animation is still able to be appreciated and the Dolby Digital 5.1 mix is good. Again, this is NOT the Disney movie to show little kids (it would probably be a complete fly-by for them), but it does have much appeal to an older audience who can appreciate the animation, and the Oscar- winning music. A true modern masterpiece. Not historically accurate...but Ok..so this movie isn't at all historically accurate. As the "outraged" Navajo woman stated, there was a HUGE age difference between the real Pocahontas and John Smith. If you read the biography of Pocahontas, you can find out the truths and untruths behind this Disney movie. The fact is, knowing Disney was going to do this movie should have let people know that it would be sugar coated and somewhat stereotypical. Explaining to a young child why a 40 year old would even be attracted to a 12 year old would be difficult. The basis of the story: John Smith and company arriving in Virginia in 1607 to find gold and then meeting with the Powhatan tribe, is there. Children can learn the disturbing treatment the Native Americans recieved later on in junior high and high school. Disney does however let children know the value of talking out differences and seeing beyond color and outward differences to find what life and love are truly about. Not to be completely cliche, but, if nothing else, this movie does show children that it's what's inside that counts. Politically-correct racism I wish my children had never seen this movie, but since I made the mistake of trusting Disney and since it reappears on TV frequently, I've used it as an opportunity to talk about the blatant (but politically-correct) racism woven through it. My point to my children: racism is wrong, no matter who it's directed at (a point that goes directly against the main theme of the movie). In this movie, there is one and only one exception to the rule that all Native Americans are good and all English are bad. John Smith is the exception that proves the rule - other than him, all British are evil (and crude, dirty, greedy, etc.). The Native Americans aren't all quite perfect but all come around in the end, while the English are clearly rotten to the core, and the world would be a better place if they were all gone. Get this movie for your children IF you want to teach them to use skin color as a way of predicting good versus evil. And don't worry, they won't get the wrong, racist lesson that dark skin is bad - they'll get the politically-correct lesson, that people with white skin are bad. Buy Pocahontas at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Pocahontas Search with the Priority Search Engine on Pocahontas This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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