2 and a half out of five.

Rating: Null/10 (28 June 1999)

This is middle-level Disney. While the true story of Pocohontas is interesting, this is not. Not even with a stunningly designed and animated title character. (Animator Glenn Keane has come a long way since Ariel of "The Little Mermaid.) Songs are so-so, ditto the supporting cast. Some real visual interest is there in "Colors of the Wind," and the scenes of the shaman's predictions illustrated by shifting designs in the smoke. Grandmother Willow (literally a willow tree) is merely an annoyance, partially animated by computer, and therefore a visual anomaly compared with most of the rest of the movie's look. The language barrier between Smith and our heroine is solved in a completely unconvincing way.
Better than Mulan, I guess.