Return to Never Land

Plot synopsis:
In World War II, Jane Darling is Wendy's daughter who refuses to believe in stories about Peter Pan. She is mistakenly abducted by Captain Hook and his crew, who sail through the sky on their pixie-dust enchanted ship, evade an air raid alert and escape back to Neverland.
There, Hook plans to feed Jane to the octopus (who replaced Tick-Tock the Crocodile) in order to lure Peter into a trap. However, Peter rescues Jane and Hook escapes from the octopus, returning to the ship. After recognizing and asking Jane to follow Wendy's footstep, Peter takes her to his hideout to be the mother of the Lost Boys, but Jane refuses and gets stranded. The next day as the boys fail to teach Jane about flying, she upsets them and does not believe in fairies, making Tinker Bell sick. That night, Hook tricks Jane by lying that he will not harm Peter and she agrees to help him find the treasure. Hook gives Jane a whistle and leaves.
Jane asks Peter and the boys to play a game of "treasure hunt", and they wish Jane to believe in fairies and save Tinker Bell. As Jane finds the treasure and changes her mind into discarding the whistle, the boys make her the "Lost Girl" before Tootles finds and inadvertently blows the whistle. As the pirates arrive to capture the boys, Peter calls Jane a traitor and tells her because she does not believe in fairies, Tinker Bell is dying. Jane rushes back to the Lost Boys' home, but gets to Tinker Bell too late. Jane, realizing she is the reason Tinker Bell is gone, breaks down in tears for her, but she revives. They head to the ship and see Hook forcing Peter to walk the plank. With Tinker Bell's help, Jane learns to fly. As Peter drops the anchor on the ship and sinks into the sea, the pirates, riding on a rowboat, are pursued by the octopus.
After saying goodbye to the boys, Peter escorts Jane back home, where Jane reconciles with Danny. Peter and Tinker Bell meet Wendy again, though she is an adult, they say goodbye. As Edward returns home from the war, Peter and Tinker Bell fly back to Neverland.

Tags: psychedelic, fantasy

Review:
I've enjoyed liberal interpretations before - Hook and Finding Neverland, for example - but this movie completely trashed whatever character Peter Pan is supposed to have.
Whatever beautiful messages Peter Pan has about nostalgia and childhood, "Return to Neverland" turns them upside down at worst, and simply ignores them at best.The animation wasn't bad, though..
Jane thinks she's really mature, and it's up to Peter and the Lost Boys to bring out her childish side again.I think "Return to Never Land" is one of the better Disney sequels, as heaps of others have turned out to rip-offs of the original.
"Peter Pan In Return To Never Land" is Disneys animated sequel to their truly classic 1953 adaptation of J.M. Barries beloved childrens story.
Its now World War Two and an adult Wendy is living in London, still telling tales of Peter Pan, Captain Hook, Tinkerbell and all the other inhabitants of Never Land to her two children; Danny, an awe struck little boy and Jane, a more cynical, pragmatic older girl who has no time for fairytales.
With a budget of a mere $20M the film was produced by Disneys TV animation department (who have previously toiled over straight to video/DVD sequels for other Disney movies including "Cinderella," "The Lady And The Tramp," "The Lion King" and "The Little Mermaid"), but this was apparently always planned as a cinematic release.
Overall though "Peter Pan In Return To Never Land"  only the second sequel to a Disney feature to be released on the big screen  more than deserves a cinematic outing, and will no doubt go down well with the latest generation of Disney fans, who have grown up with a VHS copy of the original at home..
I am a 13 year old kid and I saw the movie and when I saw the war parts I was shocked and sort of felt sorry for wendy because she was in the war area but when the movie got to the where the ship is entering the second star to the right I heard sounds in that scene like: I'll get you for this pan if it's the last thing I do,ticking,and Peter famous line from "Peter Pan": Once you're grown up you can never back.
I liked the lost boys, though in number one they used to fight alot.And pan wasn't mean to Jane he was just upset because tink's light was fading and the ending was almost sad because peter sort of felt that he didn't give a darn about wendy but she cared for him.my favorite lost boy is Slightly he rocks.
Plus the songs were great I liked "So to be one of us" and "now that you're one of us" but My favorite song is the new version of "Do you believe in magic" it's a new version of the song then the oringal.the reason why disney wanted to do a sequal to peter pan is because they thought that we kids and adults might to see peter pan again and take us back to neverland and have us forget what's going in the world like the Terrorism war.The movie was a huge hit at my Regal cinemas in lincoln city,oregon everyone clapped and I yelled "GIVE US MORE PAN".
Rumor has it that disney is thinking about doing a thrid Peter pan movie called: Peter Pan 3, the plot: it is going to be about peter's past,how tink came in his life,how hook and the pirates got to neverland,and how the lost boys got there too..
Sequel to classic history with an enjoyable Peter Pan , adventures , imagination ,astounding as well as gorgeous sets and brilliant images , though it was originally planned as a direct-to-video release in which the protagonist of the story results to be Wendy's daughter and is set in London during World War II .
The film centers about Peter Pan (voice by Blayne Weaver) , a nice adolescent who doesn't want grow up , Wendy , her daughter Jane and brothers .
The plot is similar to Walt Disney's classic replacing Wendy with her daughter Jane who along with Peter undertake several adventures in Neverland ; as Pan with the help of her and the Lost Boys must save his friends by battling with Captain Hook and Smee once again .
Due to controversy over their appearance in original movie , as Disney attracted negative comments for their stereotypical depiction of Indians, as indeed did J.M. Barrie with his original play , it's probably for that very reason that the Indians do not appear in this 2002 sequel , though Peter and Jane briefly visit their places , however ; as they fly over Tipis , Indian tribes and skull monument .
Because most of the original voice cast of the movie had died, including Hans Conried (Hook) and Bobby Driscoll (Peter Pan), an entirely new cast of actors had to be used to film this sequel such as Corey Burton as Hook , Jeff Bennett as Smee , Kath Soucie as Wendy , Roger Rees as Edward , Spencer Breslin as Cubby , Bradley Pierce as Nibs and Clive Revill .
This is a perfect example of why Walt Disney said very clearly "Don't let them make sequels to my movies."  He didn't want Peter Pan 2, Snow White 2 and so on.
Although the Peter's animation is a bit off, Hook, the pirates, and the lost boys look, act, and sound amazingly like the originals.
In this sequel, Disney has managed to balance the reality of the Second World War (the blitz, in London) with the make-believe of Peter Pan.
Jane is the daughter of Wendy, and, as a younger child, enjoyed the wonder-filled stories her mother told her about Peter Pan.
The movie is complemented by excellent 'background' songs which enhance the magic, and humour, drama, the quirkiness of the surreal Neverland (the octopus manages to be a little scary, but also, as amusing as the crocodile in the original) and values that appeal to parents and children alike.
Despite that she is still very young, she doesn't believe in Never Land and her mother's tales, but when Captain Hook thinks he grabs Wendy, he grabs Jane and takes her to Never Land to capture Peter Pan. Peter saves Jane and offers her to join the Lost Boys and hopes to restore her faith in his adventures and fairies, but all she wants to do is go home.Return to Never Land is a fun Disney sequel that I have to admit that I was actually more impressed with.
There are still a lot of great laughs and the story is still as adventurous as the first time when I watched the first Peter Pan. It was a little disturbing to hear the big difference of the voices, but I'm getting past it.
Another thing I'd like to add is that I wish there were more sequels to movies that are just as good as the originals, if not better, more often, rather than the other way around.
Wendy tells her children about her experiences with Peter Pan in Never Land, and Danny loves these stories, but Jane has become skeptical.
This sequel is not that bad around the beginning, showing what has become of Wendy since the events of the first film, now a loving mother, and there's some good voice acting here.
Both of them have disappointed many fans of their much earlier predecessors, and I'm sure many Disney fans strongly dislike both theatrical sequels, but personally, while I think neither of them lives up to the originals, this one was probably a bit better than I expected.
Also, it was nice to see Jane follow in the tradition of other Disney heroines and have a strong character.Also, The brief last scene involving Peter and a grown-up Wendy was touching in a way that it's live action counterpart Hook never was.Overall, if you have kids, it's a fun mindlessly entertaining afternoon at the movie theater.
The voices are not that great-especially considering the little girl Jane- Wendy's daughter- is played by what sounds like a forty year old woman, Peter Pan sounds retarded and the lost boys...don't want to even talk about it.
Personally I have been waiting for years to see their work on the big screen (and did for "Timon and Pumba: Stand by Me" and the second to last scene in "A Goofy Movie") They have been animating the studio's sequels for years (Part of Beauty and the Beast: the Enchanted Christmas, Lion King 2, Extremely Goofy Movie, Lady and the Tramp 2 and most of The Little Mermaid 2), but once Disney gave them a feature of there own, they really got a chance to show their stuff and baby, did they deliver!The animation in this film FAR surpasses that of the original.Lianne Hughes animates Jane with a beautiful, comic grace that appears so natural.
And not just in comedy (such as her disbelief at being in Neverland and assumption that she is dreaming) but later, when crying for the presumed death of a character: Just before she speaks, the tears well up and as she does speak the tear flows down her cheek so gracefully that I actually cried- I connected with the character animation that well.Andrew Collins, who tends to animate the lead characters in the sequels (he did Simba in Lion King 2, and Goofy in Extremely Goofy Movie) also shines with Peter Pan (and, to his credit doesn't seem to even try to do what was done before- he just animated Peter his own way and end up a beter handler of the boy that never grew up).And although it's obvious that Bob Baxter (Captain Hook) was trying to match the animation of the original animator, he too brings his own brilliant style to the bad captain.One name that was missing from this film is Kevin Peaty.
Gorgeous animation!) and I would have thought that he would have been the perfect animator for Tinkerbell (also lovely, but the one character not QUITE up to Marc Davis' original animation), alas Kevin Peaty apparently did not work on this film, though I wish I knew why?Adult Wendy's animation itself was also lovely (her animator's name escapes me right now), but her design, I felt, needed a bit of work.I wish they listed the lead animators of Danny or Tinkerbell or Smee, because although Tinkerbell is the one character not improved upon animation-wise, these characters also show you what Australlia is capable of.Anyone that has read this must either think I'm joking (how could the animation of a sequel be better than the first, they laid the groundwork, right?) or am making this all up.
The new mutually empowering relationship forged between Jane and Tink was inspired (yes, it runs 100% counterculture to Barrie's conception of Tinkerbell, but this is not Barrie's turn-of-the-19th-century book; it is a 21st-century family film), and fit well into Jane's ambivalence at remaining a lost girl.The climactic scenes with Hook's crew were even better than in the original, and the animated sequences were extremely creative and impeccable technically.
The only good thing about this movie is the animation and the Peter and Wendy reunion (which happens at the end of the film).
Some thought was put into it, unlike other Disney sequels, and, while the beginning of the film was a bit violent and scary (World War II era bombings) for younger children, it captured some of the magic of the original story.
"Peter Pan" was a special movie that stays with you through adulthood; "Return.." is okay, but probably will not stand out from the normal animated films of the past few years.
However, credit must be given to the writers for not trying to add anything to modernize the characters or make them "hip" in some way, with the exception of the cheesy theme song.After the quick 64-minute running time, you start to wonder why this sequel made the cut to theaters and not others like "Cinderella II", "Little Mermaid II", "The Lion King II", etc.
In this sequel to Disney's Peter Pan we see Wendy all grown up with children of her own.
Was the trip to Neverland all a dream?The animation was like watching one of the many direct to video sequels Disney has done over the years.
For once, disney paid attention to animation, and the characters look like the ones from the original...yet it wasn't as good as it could have been.
It's worth watching this sequel just to enjoy the old-style Disney nostalgia of the final scene when Peter says a last, sweet farewell to the grown-up Wendy.
Then the pirate ship makes it through the skies and onto the roof over the children's nursery--a magical blend of CGI and great hand-drawn animation for this sequence--and eventually Jane (Wendy's non-believing daughter) is whisked off to Neverland where she meets Peter Pan under most unusual circumstances.An explosion of comic scenes featuring Captain Hook (voiced brilliantly by Corey Burton) and his befuddled Mr. Smees and an octopus (just as funny as the old Crocodile) take center stage before we return to the adventures of Jane, Peter and The Lost Boys.It's all stylishly done in bright color with fine attention to detail in all the layouts and settings.
Most trying of all is a song called "I'll Try" sung, if that is the word, by Jonatha Brooke, so as to make the words utterly meaningless since they can't be understood without a caption feature.None of the other songs have any distinction or charm whatsoever and there is even a poor rendition of "The Second Star to the Right" that is used as a throwaway in this version.So, if you can tolerate a Disney film with the worst possible selection of songs, but otherwise up to par in animation and voice characterizations--and just a little below par in the storyline--you'll find some pleasant moments in this otherwise uninspired sequel.And speaking of vocals, Blayne Weaver does a nice job on the Peter Pan voice--as do the animators which make him look strikingly like the original.
Now, we have "Return To Never Land," the sequel to "Peter Pan" go to movie houses.
This movie has Wendy from the original story all grown up, in the era of World War II, and now it's her no-nonsense, mature-beyond-her-years daughter Jane who meets Peter Pan, a character she only knew and wrote off from her mother's stories.
Since the original Peter Pan is my all time favourite Disney animated feature, I was very excited to return to Neverland.
Alot better than the direct to video sequels we have been getting from Disney in the last couple of years.This movie continues with Wendy Darling, who is now married and has children of her own.
If only her conversion had been properly plotted to better coincide with Tinkerbell coming back to life and her defeat of Captain Hook!Though the movie is probably pleasant enough for most kids, none in the audience with me were in any way enraptured by this minor effort, and parents will miss the adult humor and insight that has sparked many animated films since Aladdin.
This one's not going to make Walt Disney roll over in his grave, but it isn't gonna make him stand up and applaud either.Picking up a generation after one of my two favorite "Classic" Disney films, Peter Pan (Sleeping Beauty is the other), this one follows Pan, the Lost Boys, Tinkerbell, Captain Hook, and all as Wendy Darling's daughter Jane is brought to Neverland, kidnapped by Hook in an evil yet doomed to fail scheme to capture Peter Pan. Of course, this one obviously had a narrow escape from the direct-to-video market, but don't let that be a huge drawback.
Don't get me wrong, he was great in the original, but he was less cocky in this and I sorta liked that.I liked how it was Wendy's daughter Jane, instead of the original characters like in most Disney sequels, it was more, I don't know, realistic.Well, like I said, the plot isn't big at all, it's quite simple, but that doesn't spoil the goodness of the movie!
(Where is the magic of Neverland???)Peter Pan lies to her also...in a plot to save Tinkerbell, he tells her he's sorry and wants to make it up to her...but he is just using her and has already explained why and how, to the Lost Boys!I guess this film was made for little girls during a time of war.
Maybe I'm spoiled with the original "Pan" or Spielberg's "Hook" (which is one of my favorite films of all time) - but I think that such a fantastical place such as Neverland needs a bit more exploration for the viewer.
Where is the magic of Neverland???Peter Pan lies to her also...in a plot to save Tinkerbell, he tells her he feels sorry for her and wants to make it up to her...but he is just using her and has already explained why and how, to the Lost Boys!I guess this film was made for little girls during a time of war.
I know a lot of Disney sequels can be really horrible and completely ruin the original movie, but I think that this movie just continues the adventure of Peter Pan. Jane, Wendy's daughter, feels she needs to grow up fast, in order to take care of her family when her father is fighting.
Barry play, Peter Pan, nor the 1953 Disney movie of the same name.The plot focuses on Jane, Wendy's daughter, who is kidnapped by Captain Hook and his band of pirates at the height of World War II....
When I re-discovered this sequel to the original 'Peter Pan' (one of my favourite films as a child) six years ago, I fancied seeing it because I was interested to see how Wendy would look as an adult.