History? Who cares!

Rating: 1/10 (23 November 1999)

Once again, Disney has taken a historical event and turned it into "entertainment." I'm not saying Disney needs to be faithful to reality, but if they want to make another politically correct fable why not just make up their own names and stories instead of using novels and events from the past that were clearly not made to entertain children? I mean, "Hunchback of Notre Dame" by Victor Hugo did not remotely resemble the Disney version...Quasimodo is NOT a happy-go-lucky guy with a hump and a great singing voice.
This movie is no different. The real Pocahontas was only thirteen when "John Smith" started molesting her, which her father allowed to keep the peace. Soon, Disney will run out of historical chapters and novels to base their movies on.
What will we get from them in 2015? "A Disney Holocaust" with singing gas chamber shower heads and animated wolves in SS uniforms goose-stepping in sync to Wagner's music? Jewish mice tortured by Nazi cats before they're rescued by heroic dogs in American GI uniforms? I'm sure "A Disney Exxon Valdez Spill" and "A Disney Y2K Plague" will follow shortly.
Disney used to make up their own characters and made some wonderful movies. Now they just turn things that have already happened into mindless entertainment. An interesting aside: a person I know thinks Disney is partially to blame for people getting mauled by semi-wild animals in zoos and circuses, because they've always portrayed animals as CUTE. I don't totally agree, but if it's true then our kids are believing the pseudo-history that Disney is producing these days.
Maybe hiding in a bell-tower and throwing things down upon the masses isn't such a bad idea after all...