Stick to Fiction, Disney

Rating: 2/10 (17 December 2019)

Despite the Disney Renaissance being considered to last from 1989's "The Little Mermaid" to 1999's "Tarzan", there's one huge mistake squatting right, smack-dab in the middle of this era: 1995's "Pocahontas", a shockingly bad movie that might actually be the worst Disney animated film so far.
Honestly, the film is just crappy all around. Musically, some of the songs are decent, but the lyrics are pretty poor, making them kind of a pain to listen to. Animation wise, it's fine, but it's not Disney's best work. And the "story" is an inaccurate joke that goes far beyond "artistic license" territory and off the deep end into borderline character-assassination of actual people. Probably the least accurate depiction is that of Governor Ratcliffe. Look him up: even Wikipedia tells you everything you need to know. It hardly seems fair to set him up as yet another ugly, stupid Disney villain, considering his shockingly gruesome death. Feeling guilty yet, Disney?
At the end of the day, "Pocahontas" is vapid junk. It doesn't even begin to compare with the previous films of the Renaissance era, or with it's successors. It should be forgotten as just another dimwitted, clunky look at colonialism without anything original to say.