a 'mature' Disney film

Rating: Null/10 (6 September 2000)

This isn't the most 'colorful' of Disney movies, but the soundtrack is one of the best. Pocahontas will be an inspiration to a female children's audience, as she was to me when this movie first came out.
Mel Gibson's (yummy) voice was great to make a sympathetic yet ignorant John Smith. Yes, I know the facts as they are compared to actual history are COMPLETELY wrong. ------------------ SLIGHT SPOILER SLIGHT SPOILER--------------- I feel that, with the way they ended this version (which I won't spoil), they might as well have gone with the factual ending, because THIS ending wasn't too happy anyway. Oh, well.
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A beautiful young lady figure as 'Pocahontas' and a happy ending helps to give young American kids a positive and memorable introduction of Native American culture, however glamourized it may be.
---------- I don't know how many of you Disney fans enjoy romance on the screen, but let me tell 'ya, for animated characters, the two leads have more chemistry together together than most romances period.
P.S.- To all you subliminal-message-obsessed mothers, this flick doesn't contain any...just to save you time.