The New World is pretty.

Rating: 5/10 (2 January 2006)

The New World is beautifully filmed. It will probably become a great date movie, a chick flick in the genre of "Settlers and Indians".
If this film had been made 15 years ago, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan might have starred in it. However, aside from the scenery, my opinion is that the Disney version is much more interesting.
I think that it would be more credible, not politically correct, if someday filmmakers chose Native American actors to portray Native Americans. In this film, Q'Orianka Kilcher, whose father (according to IMDb) is a Quechua Indian from South America, portrays Pocahontas. Her mother is a native Swede from Alaska.
I predict that many people are going to like this movie, but I would rather see one about the Lewis and Clark Expedition. There is much more of a story there. That would make a good mini-series too.
On the other hand, why not re-work the Pocahontas story so that it takes place in outer space. I do not have a problem with miscast space aliens.