Pocahontas

Rating: 10/10 (18 April 2010)

This movie is severely underrated. This was a box-office hit of 1995! It won 2 Oscars for the music and animation. Sure, the story was inaccurate. Most bio films are. Nevertheless, I especially loved the diversity theme and enjoyed showing Native Americans in a positive, humane light that they deserve in a cartoon. It's not just cowboys and "indians" and the cowboys are the heroes, of course. Pocahontas is a young woman who teaches John Smith her values on nature and falls in love. Although that's not true, she married John Rolfe in the so-so sequel. But, this is an extraordinary Disney film about The American princess who needed more appreciation.
Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz were awesome with the music. Menken is my favorite movie composer and was bummed when I learned he was not scoring "The Princess and the Frog" (but Randy Newman's score was very Louisiana good, though!). Schwartz's lyrics were true in "The Colors of the Wind".
The bottom line, GO WATCH THIS MOVIE, PLEASE!