The two lovers of Pocahontas

Rating: 3/10 (16 August 2007)

Why doesn't this movie was just called "The two lovers of Pocahontas" instead of "The new world"? I think it would be fairer to the viewer! This movie wasn't what I expected. To resume my review I could use just one word: DISAPPOINTMENT, but I prefer to explain why I was expecting to watch this movie for a long time, but what I expected was something more related to the exploration of the New world itself, as the title, by the way, suggests (!) and not this "lovely" romance of the princess Pocahontas (as the main topic of the plot)! I really think it's too centered in the Pocahontas story and it reduces much of the movie's interest, at least for me! As it wasn't enough, the film is too slowly paced, too melancholic, too "poetic wannabe", and very boring at parts!
Besides, it has some incredible lacks in production. I can remember one scene, right in the beginning, after the ships have taken off to England, the colony (Jamestown) was infected by disease, the men were dying, and one of them said to Captain Smith that they were just 38 a few scenes later, when they are fighting the natives, WHITOUT ANY REFORCES, they seem to have dozens of men, a number too larger than 38 But that's just an example There're much more
The soundtrack is also awful! Orchestra music, with strings and piano sounds, in a movie which its main topic is the exploration of the New World? Come on! It has no sense! The only music piece which I liked in this movie was a Renascence piece, near the end, when Pocahontas is meeting the King of England. It was the only one appropriated All the rest was nonsensical (to the movie's theme) and pseudo-poetic
Well, what else can I say? Just maybe this movie was one of the biggest disappointments in the last times and it explains it all!