| | |  | Movies For Toddlers | Home » » » Peter Pan (2-Disc Platinum Edition) | | | | | | | Description: | | Let your dreams take flight with Walt Disney's original classic. PETER PAN soars to new heights in the magical 2-disc Platinum Edition DVD with an all-new digital restoration. Fantastic adventures await Wendy and her brothers when Peter Pan, the hero of their stories, whisks them away to the magical world of Never Land. After following Peter and his feisty sidekick Tinker Bell past "the second star to the right and straight on till morning," they explore the island and Peter's secret hideout with the rambunctious Lost Boys and leap into high-flying battles with swashbuckling pirates and the infamous Captain Hook! Bursting with fantasy, adventure, and pixie dust, this 2-disc Platinum Edition includes three all-new games in Camp Never Land, deleted scenes, a new discovery -- in which Walt Disney reveals why he made PETER PAN -- and much more. | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried, Bill Thompson | | Director:
| Hamilton Luske | | Format:
| AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, NTSC | | Language:
| English, French, Spanish | | Number of Discs:
| 2 | | Studio:
| Walt Disney Video | | Run Time:
| 77 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| March 06, 2007 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 285 reviews |
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 THE GOLDEN ERA OF DISNEY ANIMATION: "PETER PAN"Aug 27, 2010
It is easier to judge Walt Disney's 1953 animated adaptation of James Barrie's "Peter Pan" for what it is; rather than for what it is not. What the film gets right, it gets spectacularly right. Animation is, indeed, the best medium to capture the magical aspects of the story. The sequence where Peter Pan, Wendy, John, and Michael fly from London to Never-Land is stunning. It is almost immediately apparent why "Peter Pan" is one of the finest Disney films of the 1950's. The film gains much of its appeal from the excellent vocal performances of Bobby Driscoll (Peter Pan), Hans Conreid (Mr. Darling and Captain Hook), Kathryn Beaumount, (Wendy) and Bill Thompson (Mr. Smee). The story has plenty of action and adventure, and moves along at a brisk pace. The depiction of the Indians as caricatures instead of characters is painfully, politically incorrect. But one must remember the era in which this film was made. It would be decades before Cathy Rigby's stage revival of "Peter Pan" would correct this sticky situation. But, as the stage and animated films are completely different mediums, the point is moot.
The Disney version of "Peter Pan" is an artistic triumph. It is often delightful, but it is only about fun and games in Never-Land. While Disney captured the magic and fantasy brilliantly, he never grasped the darker, psychologically complex aspects of the story. The Disney version captures Peter Pan as the spirit of youth, joy, and freedom, but lacks the emotional depth of Barrie's original story. The great villain Captain Hook clearly represents the "adult, father figure" who must be destroyed because he's a threat to all the fun and games. There's no romantic tension between Peter Pan and Wendy. There is no acknowledgement of Peter's lonliness or the things he will never have. At the end of Barrie's play, Peter Pan returns to the nursery and discovers Wendy is now a grown-up adult. Disney completely ignored Barrie's ending, and all of its bittersweet implications.
The DVD features an excellent audio commentary by the late Roy Disney, (Walt's nephew), film critic Leonard Maltin, several of the animators, Margaret Kerry (the model for the hot-tempered, jealous pixie Tinker Bell), Kathryn Beaumount-- and even some surprising comments from Walt Disney himself. The short featurette "The Making Of Peter Pan" and the longer documentary "The Peter Pan That Almost Was", are especially informative and entertaining.
The brief life of Bobby Driscoll, more tragic than magic, is a sad footnote to "Peter Pan." Driscoll, who received a special Academy Award for his role in the suspense-thriller "The Window", made immeasurable contributions to the success of Disney's "Song Of The South", "So Dear To My Heart", "Treasure Island" and "Peter Pan." After his Disney contract was dropped (the same month, incidentally, that "Peter Pan" was released), Driscoll descended into drug addiction and spent some time in prison. Driscoll died in 1968, alone and peniless, at the age of 31. Of his movie career, Driscoll remarked, "I was carried on a satin pillow... and then dumped into the garbage." Magic and happiness, it often seems, exist only in the movies.
great movie but still old style animationAug 23, 2010
because the cover style, I thought it was going to be a modern animated movie, but it still uses the old style with no "Great" colorful quality image. But it is ok for children.
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Peter Pan DVDJun 07, 2010
Item arrived timely and in perfect, new condition. No issues incurred when viewing the discs. My Granddaughter was ecstatic to have this video and I was excited to find it for her since it has been put back in the vault at Disney!
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