Pocahontas (1995)
Critic Reviews
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100
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San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack
Disney's 33rd animated feature, and its first with characters based on real people, is a stunning movie with clever twists, vivid characterizations, insightful songs and a surprising harvest of revisionist history that manages to ring smartly as pure entertainment.
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88
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
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.
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75
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The film looks great, the songs are wonderfully visualized, and the characters are appealing.
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75
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San Francisco Examiner Barbara Shulgasser
With an original score by Alan Menken and Gilbert and Sullivan-ish songs by Menken and lyricist Stephen Schwartz, the movie is the cartoon equivalent of a full-scale, high-quality Broadway musical.
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75
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TV Guide
Overall, Pocahontas is a triumph as a visual experience (though the music is unusually bland), but a disappointment as a film.
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70
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Film Threat
The animation in Pocahontas is a testament to the constantly evolving skills of the various animators involved, drawing characters that manage to make an impact, even if only a small one.
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60
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Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Directed by Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg, Pocahontas is on the formulaic side, a copy that duplicates what its predecessors have done, only a little less adroitly and with a little less style. [16Jun1995 Pg. F.01]
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50
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
As a fairy-tale confection, a kind of West Side Story in Jamestown, Pocahontas is pleasant to look at, and it will probably satisfy very small kiddies, but it's the first of the new-era Disney cartoons that feels less than animated.
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50
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
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.
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50
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USA Today Mike Clark
Despite haunting moments in this fabricated fling between a headstrong Native American and an English sea captain, the film isn't as chirpy or majestic as recent Disney fare. [16Jun1995 Pg. 01.D]
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40
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Empire
It's a war story with all the action removed and moral conflict inserted in its stead. That you're no longer allowed to boo is bad enough, but asking anyone to root for this bunch of drips is adding insult to injury.
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38
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Unwilling to offend, the scribes have committed the greatest offence of all - they've neglected to tell a story, airbrushing out anything remotely dramatic.
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