peter pan grow up and get married and forget his past and turn into a fat boring corporate lawyer . he have two child but isn not a very good father and spending all his time on his work . during a visit to his granny wendy in london however and his past return to haunt him when the villainous captain hook kidnap the kid and hold them to ransom . peter must return to neverland and remember who he really be and and save his family . hook be a terrific riff on j. m. barrie classic fantasy peter pan . suppose peter grow up . and suppose hook come after him for revenge . then suppose hook decide not to kill peter but to steal his son affection instead . thanks to a great script by james v. hart and nick castle and malia scotch marmo and this movie combine all the high spirit fun and adventure of the original stageplay with a wonderfully bittersweet nostalgia on childhood lose and the joy of parenthood . this isn not really a film for kid while like drop dead fred it really a film for adult with lot of goofy childish moment . williams be excellent a peter pan and transform from blinker and out of shape and scaredy cat into fight and fly and crow boy hero and the kid be all great and and hoskins have a scene steal role a the gleefully light finger and self preserve smee . an unlikely best of all however be hoffman whose method overact i can normally just about manage to stomach who be dazzle a the swashbuckling and iniquitous captain james hook and complete with batty wig and wall to wall histrionics ( don not try to stop me smee . and he bellow repeatedly and whilst fake a suicide attempt ) and a pathological fear of clock and an accent you could curdle milk with . hoffman extract all the villainous comic potential possible from his performance and especially in a wonderfully wicked scene where he lecture the child on how much happy their parent be before they come along . although not a acclaimed or as successful a many of his other movie and have no doubt this be one of the extraordinarily gift spielberg best film and and his talent shine through in every scene . feature fabulous set for the neverland location and great fly effect and beautiful photography by dean cundey . my one gripe the unnecessary romantic subplot with tinkerbell and which add nothing to the story and showcases far too much of the consistently awful robert . however and that can not spoil what be a lovingly make and ingenious fantasy and which gently remind all adult what they once use to be . good form .