Not one of the better ones from Disney.

Rating: 4/10 (4 November 2013)

This is Disney's 33rd full length-animated feature film, a story about Capt. John Smith and a group of English sailors trying to find gold and riches in a Virginia territory, which is inhabited by native Pocahontas and her tribe. The plot goes on as a tug-a-war between the settlers and the natives, with the former trying to claim new territory and the latter trying to reason with them settlers to leave them alone as they are not the "savages" they claim they are.
This movie is another piece of beautiful animation work, with wonderful songs such as "Colors of the Wind" and "Just Around the Riverbend." The story, however, wasn't very captivating and it was told in a way that is too dramatic and dreary for Disney (i.e., too much preaching between the tribe and the settlers about each other's own rights and privileges; people getting shot; unhappy climax). This film definitely doesn't have that special Disney touch. In addition, from what I understand, this film doesn't follow the true history of Pocahontas and John Smith, which gives the wrong message to viewers.
Overall, a less happier and exciting Disney movie that I wouldn't mind not watching again. There are much better Disney films out there from the 1990s than this one.
Grade D