Hook breaks the cardinal rule of J.M. Barrie's timeless fantasy -- it grows up. But, honestly, who cares about Pan the man; it's the boy we want. Never Never Land's not a place where adults can return to whenever they're looking for their lost youth. Hook leaves you marveling at the nuts and bolts work of producers and assistant directors, but never at the intrinsic imaginativeness of the story. It's as if Spielberg calculatedly set out to make a perennial classic -- certain folly if ever there were.
D: Steven Spielberg; with Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts.
