A woefully uneven retelling of the ''Peter Pan'' story.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 26, 2019

For very much like Peter, it has clearly gotten harder for this director to break free of the lure of material things and believe in simple magic.

| Mar 26, 2019

''Hook'' never sets sail.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 25, 2019

It's a lot of fun to watch - over two hours of thrills, spills, elaborate sets and special effects, all tied together by a pleasingly varied (and lighter than usual) musical score by John Williams.

| Mar 25, 2019

Spielberg's Neverland carries undeniable charm and depth. The problems start when we're asked to accept its two-dimensional residents as anything other than tourists on a forced march through its various nooks and crannies.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 13, 2019

Young kids will love this stuff. You're always aware of the effects, though, because Spielberg hasn't integrated the matte shots, storybook backgrounds, and other technical devices into the story; they're held up for the audience to ooh and aah over.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 7, 2011

Despite the cascade of wondrous special effects, massive battles between the kids and pirates and face-offs between Pan and Hook, the film doesn't truly take flight.

| Mar 26, 2009

A good half hour too long, and badly in need of some scares, Hook is a huge party cake of a movie, with too much frosting. After the first delicious bite, sugar shock sets in.

| Oct 18, 2008

The story is largely becalmed so that we can wallow in the production values. The sets are variable but often unpleasant on the eye.

| Feb 9, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 8, 2004

Hook is overwhelmed by a screenplay heavy with complicated exposition, by what are, in effect, big busy nonsinging, nondancing production numbers and some contemporary cant about rearing children and the high price paid for success.

| May 20, 2003

No matter how much cash Hook earns, it will take more than pixie dust to fly this overstuffed package into our dreams.

Full Review | May 12, 2001

This enormous wheeze comes over like the proverbial movie with a 40 million dollar set and a five cent script, which may hold its interest for under-fives but will leave most others cold.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The exposition is so underlined and re-underlined, you could teach yourself to fly waiting for something to happen.

| Jan 1, 2000

Here we get the uncanny suspicion that Hook was written and directed according to the famous recipe of the country preacher who told the folks what he was going to tell them, told them, and then told them what he had told them.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Hook breaks the cardinal rule of J.M. Barrie's timeless fantasy -- it grows up.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Big, splashy, energetic, one-size-fits-all Hollywood entertainment.

| Jan 1, 2000

Amid all this flexing of moviemaking muscle, there's possible evidence of uncertainty as well.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000