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| 60% Recommended by our customers. Studio: Disney Catalog: DVD Release date: 2005-05-03 Media: DVD released in theatres: 1995-06-23 Running time in minutes: 84 DVD aspect ratio: 1.66:1 Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Format: AC-3, Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Restored, Widescreen, NTSC DVD Region code: 1 released in theatres: 1995-06-23 Ean: 9780788829598 Book Isbn: 0788829599 Upc: 786936157147  Tip: compare prices with similar DVDsDirector:
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 Written on November 7, 2007 Summary: Overlooked Disney gem Even if it's historically inaccurate, it's still an enjoyable movie. That being said, there's few things wrong with this special 10th anniversary edition. For a really good price (about $15) you get a ton of special features which weren't present in older releases. And it's still a great film, with great music and a good, solid storyline. And if it gets kids interested in American history, that's a bonus! The only reason I'm not giving it five stars is for the absolutely horrible added scene between John Smith and Pocahontas. (I still haven't figured out how to get the original version to play on my DVD player, and so it automatically goes right to the 10th Anniversary Edition). The song, "If I Never Knew You" is absolutely gorgeous (see the original soundtrack for a good version), and Judy Kuhn (the singing voice for Pocahontas) has a wonderful voice. But when she's paired up with Mel Gibson for their version of "If I Never Knew You," it's just awful. I think the concept behind the scene is great, but it doesn't seem to add much to the plot - which is probably why it wasn't included in the original theatrical version. And Mel Gibson can't sing. That's what ruins the scene for me more than anything, especially since you can tell Judy Kuhn is holding back vocally to match Gibson's lackluster vocals. Since she shines on all the other songs in the movie, she would probably have overpowered Gibson on the duet. So buy this DVD because it's a great movie at a great price, but then do yourself a favor and watch only the original version!  Written on September 17, 2007 Summary: Disney could have done a much better job. I actually wanted to give this one star, but my sentimental attachment to all things Disney forced me to throw in a bonus point. I know it's for kids. I know it's for entertainment's sake. But.... There is so much that is of value in the truth. I don't know why the actual story had to be turned into this PC mish-mash. Disney's adult fans will not be amused. If it's for the kid's sake, please just rent it or borrow it from the library. And, while you're at the library, be sure to pick up some of the wonderful books for kids and teens that tell the facts in just as exciting a manner. If you really want to excite your children about history, take them to Jamestown and Colonial Williamsburg, where history really does come to life!  Written on September 15, 2007 Summary: Pocahontas (10th Anniversary Edition) I was very happy to find Pocahontas (10th Anniversary edition) and at such a good price. My Grandaughter was so upset when our VCR "ate" our previous tape that I had found at a garage sale. I had been looking all over for a replacement and was happy to find it in the CD format.  Written on September 2, 2007 Summary: Racist Film with more MISrepresentations of Native Americans I really don't have time to write out all the inconsistencies. Just google "The Real Pocahontas" and you will find many critiques of the film. To begin with...that wasn't even her real NAME! Written on August 28, 2007 Summary: Which is worse, the historical whitewash, or the fact that it's dead boring? Disney puts a pretty face on its rather ugly retooling of historical and biographical fact by laying on enough textual PC correctives to appease most of the thenthitives out there, and maybe even a few of the people who have some real reason to be offended. (And, yes, they do have reason.) This doesn't help it as a movie, though - and neither does the tiresome and mushy romance angle that slurps up a lot of the screen time. Great pains were reportedly taken with the animation, which I found to be competently uninspired by Disney standards of the period. A key color scheme associated with the character Pocahontas is an unfortunate mash of purples, pinks and golds - a color combination most recognizably associated with Barbie. This Pocahontas is, in fact, something like the genetic offspring of Barbie and a fictionalized historical figure - grown in a medium of touchy-feely new-age sentiment (emphasis on the touchy). I could probably forgive it any faults, though, if it were any good as a movie. Really, this is material Disney should have left alone. They might have actually had a more entertaining film (albeit a more offensive one) if they had felt free to treat the story LESS respectfully. They might have also had a better movie if they had treated the material with the kind of respect it actually deserves, but is simply way beyond their ken creatively and intellectually. What we get is Disney as a bull trying hard to gingerly tippy-toe around a china shop that it has no business being in in the first place. A similar schizophrenia plagued their ill-advised adaptation of a famous Victor Hugo novel in the same period, when the studio was evidently nurturing some loftily outsize artistic aspirations, but the result was so grotesquely perverse that it actually ended up being worth seeing - if only for the jaw-dropping 'what were they smoking at Disney' quality. (It also had some truly impressive animation.) 'Pocahantas' is not in nearly poor enough taste to provide entertainment on that level, but it's still in way too poor taste to be accepted or respected on the terms it gropes for. If nothing else, it proves that political correctness doesn't equal real sensitivity - nor does it make for interesting cinema. Anyway, this one fails pretty miserably. Even if you can get past the inherent offensiveness of Smith and Pocahontas hooking up (according to history, if they ever did it was in what would now be considered a combination of statutory and actual rape), the execution of the romantic element here ranges from excruciatingly dull at best to... {insert puking noises}. I don't always demand accuracy in portraying people who actually lived. I cringe when ignorant people present as history details of the Marquis de Sade's life that they could only have culled from the highly fictionalized 'Qillls.' I enjoyed that movie, though, (never saw the play) and so I was willing to forgive the fact that it was actually straight-up hogwash as both history and biography - even knowing that the facts of the man's life are actually more dramatic and interesting than than the mostly invented and over-the-top story in 'Quills,' I forgave it. It was an engaging two hours with some fun performances, so I let it go. And when people who have been exposed to it prove repeatedly that they are depressingly given to accepting what they see in a movie as fact if they don't actually know any better, I don't blame the movie, I blame THEM. My recent experience with the dreadful 'Lonely Hearts' was another story, however. The transformation of lonely, insecure and famously obese serial killer Martha Beck into a sexually confident femme fatale hottie played by Salma Hayek felt like a gross betrayal. Not that a creep like Beck (or Sade, for that matter) deserves anyone's reverence - but the changes were typical Hollywood, they made her less interesting and more banal, and, as a character, she no longer made any sense. (Hayek's man-jumping vamp is clearly NOT the type that would need to look in the lonely hearts pages for a mate - but her presence does allow for loads of photogenic sex scenes that pass for character development. My brother has said, by the way, that he "would DO Pocahontas," but I don't think they drew her that way on purpose, do you? :| ) Making that character conform to a Hollywood standard (stereotype) was symptomatic of the film's overall slick ineptitude and gutlessness. If it had been a better movie, would I have forgiven the inaccuracies? Almost certainly - but after two excellent (non-Hollywood, natch) films that strove to interpret that character faithfully (and were all the more fascinating for it), 'Lonely Hearts' would have had to pull out some serious magic to get by with that. (I don't see it as a possibility, since that particular character interpretation was born of an imaginative bankruptcy that infected every aspect of the script.) Given the dismal situation for actresses in Hollywood who aren't built like Barbie, I would have liked to have seen some outrage over 'Lonely Hearts'' (mis)casting. 'Pocahontas' is another can of beans, entirely. As someone else put it when it came out, imagine a movie in which Anne Frank falls for, and runs off with, a German soldier. That's not overstating it by much. Let's say somebody DID make that movie. Would that be bad? Of course. What if it was actually an exciting and entertaining movie? Personally, I feel it is the responsibility of the viewer to NEVER take what they see in the movies (or on TV, or in the news, etc.) at face value - and if they do, that is a failure of the culture they live in. (F A I L U R E, people.) I have nothing but disgust for parents who use the TV and the computer as a babysitter without instilling any kind of media awareness in their kids (pointy finger: you know who you are... I hope) - but they probably know no better themselves how to evaluate what they absorb. So if the 'Anne Frank in Love' film were real, and if it were actually good, I'd probably recommend it as cinema, but it would be a heavily qualified recommendation. (See my review of 'Cannibal Holocaust' for an example of a VERY heavily qualified recommendation.) I am not the kind of jackass who feels obliged to run down Leni Riefenstahl's remarkable talent just because she made movies for Hitler. Hitler, the monster, at least had some taste to choose her. Now let's say for a moment that the 'Anne Frank in Love' movie got made, and that it's main target audience was CHILDREN... Hmmmmm... Well, the one star rating here isn't because I don't respect the movie's approach to history, it's because, first and foremost, THE MOVIE BLOWS... and I don't respect its approach to history, either - particularly given the target audience. If you show this to kids (not that I can see them being engaged by it, but okay), it demands A LOT of context and explanation. (Or you can just go ahead and BE an irresponsible parent. Most evidently are these days.) |
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| Catalog | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| Release date | 2005-05-03 | 2004-10-05 | 2004-10-26 | 2006-10-03 | 2008-10-07 |
| Media | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD | DVD |
| released in theatres | 1995-06-23 | 2004 | 1998 | 1989-11-17 | 1959 |
| Running time in minutes | 84 | 90 | 88 | 83 | 75 |
| DVD aspect ratio | 1.66:1 | 1.66:1 | 1.66:1 | 1.78:1 | 2.55:1 |
| Audience Rating | G (General Audience) | G (General Audience) | G (General Audience) | G (General Audience) | G (General Audience) |
| Format | AC-3, Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Restored, Widescreen, NTSC | AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC | Anamorphic, Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC | Animated, Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, NTSC | AC-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Restored, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen |
| DVD Region code | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Ean | 9780788829598 | 0786936223996 | 9780788829604 | 0786936284065 | 0786936735345 |
| Book Isbn | 0788829599 | - | 0788829602 | - | - |
| Upc | 786936157147 | 786936223996 | 786936157154 | 786936284065 | 786936735345 |
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