Pan - Nostalgia Critic 

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Honestly if we took the character relationship and story ideas of the mini series of 'Neverland' and combine it with the visuals of 'Pan' we could've had a great Peter Pan prequel.

I'm really glad Doug referenced Once Upon a Time's Peter Pan in this. For as many mistakes as that show made in character/plot choices, their version of Peter Pan just leaned completely into him being a cocky mischievous villain, and it was honestly a great way to go with him.

Peter: we always be friends hook aren’t we? Hook: always, what could possibly go wrong? *This Movie Bomb at the box office*

This movie has the honor of being the only movie I’ve ever fallen asleep on in the theater. Usually my dad is the one that falls asleep on movies but we both ended up taking a nap halfway through.

Tbh I like the idea of Hook starting off as Peter’s ally Though it was kinda weird seeing him act like Han Solo

I honestly enjoyed jackmans’s Blackbeard cause it’s almost like he’s a senile angry old man who’s trying to stay calm but at times just slips up. I honestly find hook’s character just dull though

Since Disney is giving their villains origin movies I’ve got an interesting one for Hook. In the books Peter would actually kill the Lost Boys when started to get too old. Wendy would ask him and say “they became pirates”. Hook starts out as a Lost Boy until he starts to see that there’s something wrong with Peter. After questioning is authority, Peter tries to kill him but escapes. He fully dawns on the pirate persona with other former lost boys to combat Peter. It reveals that Peter kills the Lost Boys so he can stay young. An offering to a magical crocodile, aka: Tick Tock the Croc. And Hook tries to extend a hand to Peter hoping the could be friends but Peter pull Vader and chops it off. Offering it to Croc.

The way Chris Stuckmann described this movie as the cheap grape cool aid version of the original Disney movie which was a quality original grape Capri sun was a perfect analogy

I remember watching this with my family and during the Nirvana sequence my dad and I just slowly turned to look at eachother without saying a word, that’s the clearest thing I remember about this movie, that look on my dad’s face.

I remember the SyFy miniseries “Neverland” casted actual Native Americans and treated them with much more respect and dignity than most Peter Pan media. It makes me curious why this movie with a much bigger budget couldn’t cast Native American actors to portray the tribe

The whole, "I have your eyes," line in this movie sounds less like, "We have this physical trait in common," and more like, "I have your eyes...on my nightstand." :P

"So that's it, we some kinda... lost boys?" Oh I've been slain. This was an especially hilarious review!

Ah yes…another movie that I COMPLETELY forgot existed

When Pan came out I was ten years old. I don’t remember anything of my first viewing in the theatre other than internally screaming”THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN YOUR STORY!” after that line of Hook and Pan always being friends.

Now THIS should’ve been the Neverland we got in “Hook”. Lots of people (including Spielberg himself) felt its depiction was underwhelming. Had they had the capability back then, it probably would’ve turned out like this.

In case you forgot… Cara Delevingne played ALL of the voiceless mermaids (with the “jellyfish tails”) in the film.

Malcolm: "Captain Blackbeard, I found 'Norm of the North.' We can make a remake of this one." :::Rob grabs the DVD and tosses it in the pit::: Rob: "No! I don't care what the charts say."

for anyone that thinks the idea of a peter pan origin story has potential, the British miniseries "neverland" is not half bad

I feel like this could be a cool idea for series. Imagine a story were the stars are islands and space is an ocean. Fairies are the inhabitants of these islands that either kidnapped people and stranded them on islands or either told them how to make it to the sky ocean

what's funny is that there are a couple of books about peter pan's origins that haven't been adapted yet. both are pretty good and would make for very good movies.

It's great to see that Doug is feeling better. Hope you all stay safe and healthy!

Dude this movie confused the hell out of me as a kid I fact even though this one was big flashy and had tones of special effects I still as a 9 or 10 year old would have watched hook over this any day

“With moments of the extraordinary dropped in” Probably the best way to describe it. A lot of the changes they made just don’t work very well, Tiger Lily being a major example. However, I think the visuals are some of the best in any Peter Pan project. Even the mining scenes which look bland or dull are still suitably epic in scale considering it’s literally showing child slavery. I also liked Jackman’s performance of Blackbeard and I especially like they didn’t make him exactly like Hook (in comparison…Hook should’ve been more like Hook with at least an anger issue or a dark streak to imply villainous things in his future). Blackbeard comes off as completely unstable, a man who can switch between emotions at the drop of the hat for almost no apparent reason. And I think that’s what the performance is meant to convey. But beyond those two things they really screwed themselves with this film. As it is people aren’t really fans of Chosen One stories anymore, but it’s so strange that they decided a Peter Pan story needed one when the entire story is already right in front of them. They could’ve even looked at any of the other spin-offs and taken ideas. The review mentions how the Robin Williams film had the Lost Boys come from different time periods and then gave them different period outfits to subtly show that. Great idea, makes perfect sense for the narrative, add more ideas like that and less like Peter being some special fairy boy. I didn’t even mind the orphanage being in league with the pirates, they just never explained why lol.

Was expecting this film to be discussed by the Critic but that Peter Pan remake in 2003 deserves a full review.

In OUAT, Pan was a cult leader and convinced a eleven year old to rip out his own heart. That’s probably my favorite version

While I never read the original book, my favorite portrayal of Pan is the one from Once Upon a Time. Its so dark and twisted and I wish more Disney live adaptations did more chancey stuff like it.

The interesting part is that there is a prequel story of the Peter Pan story everyone knows and it's literally just the book by the same author of Peter and Wendy in Neverland, Peter Pan in Kensington Garden. it's a great read and I would definitely recommend it

10:44- in Hook- Peter: why did you kill Rufio? Hook: because you fed my hand to the crocodile and made me British- I was a cowboy once. Everyone is confused.

I suggest that if you want a 2010s movie that butchers Smells Like Teen Spirit, stick with The Muppets. It's actually good.

Man the X-Men films really did a number on Hugh Jackman

10:19 Wow, the Mushroom World that Dr. Robotnik landed in is a lot trippier than I thought it would be. Or, are those just the mushrooms?

You had me chanting "ThE GrEaTeR GoOd" at the exact moment you played the clip! Perfection.

I'd love it if Doug reviewed the 2003 Peter Pan movie. Starring Jason Isaacs, Jeremy Sumpter & Rachael Hurd-Wood.

I went to see this in theatres at the behest of my then-girlfriend. Not knowing it was Hugh Jackman at first, I was thoroughly convinced it was Johnny Depp playing Blackbeard

This is why I'll stick to the 2003 version. It was surprisingly good.

Honestly the one part of this movie that can even remotely classify it as a prequel is the opening monologue. "Many enemies begin as friends." They could be referring to Hook being Peter's ally at first. I honestly don't know if they even had that thought.

I'm sure you already knew it but "The Lost Boys" started as a gritty reimagining of Peter Pan. It replaces neverland with Vampirism and alters a lot of the origional story elements like the lost boys and pirates being essnetially one and the same, but kept a lot of the core concepts despite being so different. I can't imagine it went too much more off-model than "Pan" and at least had better reasons for WHY they did.

Movie Critics after watching Pan: “Your stunning visuals can’t save you now, prepare to feel the wrath of our bitter judgement!!!”

You know, a few years ago, the SyFy channel made a miniseries called Neverland. it was a pseudo sci-fi/fantasy prequel story for Peter Pan. and it's still a much better story than this

At this point, I don't even care how far away it is from the source material because it is so batshit crazy and confusing, yet so unbelievably passionate, I actually can't help but enjoy it and appreciate it. I list this under: *guilty pleasure.*

I saw the trailer for this movie in a theater. When it showed off the title, my mind immediately went to you screaming it the same way you screamed "HAM!" in your Ponyo review.

I'm guessing the reason why Hook isn't evil yet It's because they were setting it up for a sequel or trilogy where he would gradually become the pirate Captain Hook and Peter's Arch nemesis But because of poor Box office sales and negative reviews from audiences and critics it'll never happen

In FABLES, Peter Pan was originally supposed to be The Adversary, but he wasn’t in the public domain, so they had to pivot to Geppetto instead. And since OUAT did BEGIN as an adaptation of that, it makes sense they put it back in.

Also, I was constantly expecting Hook to betray Pan after Blackbeard's death and take control of the ship, but that never happened. Why are my ideas often more interesting than what the movies actually have?

With all the Peter Pan reimagining, I’m surprised there hasn’t been a Disney Plus series about it. As always, great episode, keep up the fantastic!!

It's Wednesday night. And you know what that means?! Flying off to Neverland with Captain Critic and the Lost Awesomes.

1:21: "We'd work better if we knew what we were digging for." Huge missed opportunity to throw in a _Holes_ joke here!

The “It’s always sunny in Philadelphia” joke caught me off guard so much, it made me burst out with laughter, great episode as always guys!

We went on a field trip from school when took a stop at the movie theater for the evening. Everybody wanted to see The Hunger Games. Everybody. But our teachers said "Nah, let's go into Pan" I guess we were the only 30 people to see this in Theaters

This Pan movie was so bad, that it makes Hook look like Disney’s masterpiece Peter Pan, even though Hook was originally supposed to be a Disney movie when Spielberg rejected Disney’s demand.

This was probably the first movie that I was underwhelmed by. I went to see this in theaters in like fifth grade because at the time our class was reading Peter and the Star Catchers and we went as a class field trip. Even as a young kid who liked cars 2 I remember thinking “this didn’t explain a lot about his backstory at all”

I just want people to know I had a friend in school who knew people that work for the movie industry. In late 2011 early 2012 she told me “ hey did you hear that Hollywood is running out of ideas and they are going to be making reboots”. I don’t believe her at first but now 10 years later she was right. It’s the fact that things like this are planned out so years ago Hollywood made an decision to rehash classics and make money off nostalgia and it really makes me feel a certain way 🙄

8:15: This movie makes literally no sense. The story takes place during World War 2 in the 1940s. How are they singing a song that won’t be written for another 50 years?! How are they singing a song written by people who haven’t even been born yet?!!!

Fun fact about the pirates singing: the film crew/director wanted them singing but nothing they could come up with really captured what they wanted. As a joke they had them singing Nirvana, thought it made no sense and was funny and decided "let's make that the official cut"

🤔 So, the natives explode into brightly colored dust? Two-Face: “Let’s see if you bleed green!”

Director: “Hey have you seen Pirates of the Carribean?” Jackman: “Yes, Johnny depp was great in it.” Director: “Great, we want you to do that.”

8:55 Why not? Black Widow did it in their title sequence and it was the best part of the movie.

I'm surprised there hasn't been a Scooby-Doo loses his car keys and has to retrieve them in Neverland yet.

Once Upon A Time’s Peter Pan is my favorite interpretation of the character

Tiger Lily 1953: Young girl around Wendy's age. She gets abducted by Captain Hook and is threatened with death if she doesn't tell him where Pan is hiding. Tiger Lily 2015: Young woman in her 20s. Has a romantic interest in Hook. . . . I was SO confused the first time I saw this movie 😂 Like, how tf is this supposed to be a prequel to Peter Pan!? Is time and multi-versal travel possible in Neverland? That's the only way it could be possible for Tiger Lily to be an adult in the present and a child in the future

I see Peter Pan is still recovering from the soda can machine that fell on him.

Okay, I'll admit, so when I saw this in theaters I was in a state of shock when nirvana came on. But in the years since I've found myself jamming to the Pan cover and blasting it from my car on the highway. Epic stuff

Captain Blackbeard was such an entertaining character😂. He's basically the only thing I remember about this movie

18:33 "he's not the messiah, he's very night boy"

I think Hugh Jackman hijacked Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear soul.

Dude I was just watching this film last week and said that Doug should do a review of it. As odd as this movie is, the soundtrack is an absolute banger in my opinion. Also, my theory was that they kidnapped Kurt Cobain as one of the children slaves, and he took the song home with him Stupid, but neat.

Im fine with Hook and Peter Pan, the animated one. Honestly, those are pretty fun. I didn't even know this 1 excited but it doesn't look good.

I think a few good ideas for the movie would've been to, obviously, have hook actually be British, and maybe to have had him be the captain of a ship on earth, and he was commanding a fleet of ships during a war. But then the ships are destroyed, and hook is the only one that survives, and the pirates just so happened to have flown by the aftermath and saw hook floating on some wood in the water. They pick him up and take them back with him, it gives him a somewhat interesting bakcstory, and a possibly better character than whatever Tremos knockoff character he was depicted as in the movie. I also think it would've been a good idea if the prophecy was revealed to be a lie, and the whole thing was a long elaborate trick to get Pan to lead Blackbeard to the fairyland. And when it's revealed to Peter that it was all a lie, but he learns that it doesn't matter that it was a lie, because he believed that he could save all of Neverland, and it was belief that got him this far, which is when he believes in himself enough to start flying. Maybe some of that sounds dumb, I'm just trying to help make a dumpster fire a little bit more of a tire fire, it's still not great, but atleast a burning tire smells slightly better than burning garbage

8:48 "This would be like Rufio rick rolling the pirates" I want to see that! I almost dare Dante Basco to do that!!!!

The only good thing that I can say about this film is, that it has a great original song to go with it. "Little Soldier" by Lily Allen.

When I saw the trailer to this as a kid, I thought part of the finale would include Peter somehow betraying Hook’s trust, resulting in him losing his hand. I was expecting for it to be some sort of somber farewell between allies, but no it’s just dumb

I been a Nostalgic Critic fan for several years and I always loved the Nostalgic Critic theme/opening because not only does that gets me so hyped/excited for what Nostalgic Critic/Doug is going to review, but it’s also very catchy and sums up the whole Nostalgic Critic show perfectly.

22:00 As long as it's not red, we're still A FAMILY PICTURE!

Thank you. No one talks about this movie, thank god someone is finally saying something about it

Honestly, a part of me really wished that when Blackbeard got into the Fairy Kingdom, that he and his crew would have been instantly killed by a sort of guardian. I’ve always hated how the villains just appear behind the main characters right when everything they’ve been fighting for is in their grasp, just to steal it for themselves. That would have been so super hilarious! And if they did Hook right as a greedy, temperamental, cunning, two-faced opportunist with a violent, even bloodthirsty, streak, it would have been an excellent way for him to become the true villain of the movie in the end, with even the survivors of Blackbeard’s crew becoming his own new one. And perhaps have his hand be eaten by the Croc for good measure to cement his new hatred for Peter.

I love the idea that Blackbeard isn't defeated by being impaled, he's defeated by crashing the ship and instantly boring him into a catatonic state.

12:39 My reaction exactly when it revealed the same TIRED prophesy story!!!

I'm glad that you're feeling much better to do a review like this Doug and thank you for reviewing the prequel to Peter Pan as well I haven't seen it definitely not a great one as I remember

How much do you want to bet that Hugh Jackman had multiple times a day when he said to himself, "GOD! I miss playing Wolverine!" 😂😂

I would love for NC to review the Peter pan from the early 2000's

The only thing I remember about this film is that Garrett Hedlund is in it, and I like him purely because he was really good in Tron: Legacy. And there's a Ramones cover in it, this can't be too bad, as long as you ignore the plot and the characters.

4:53, heard that was a pretty good dark comedy horror film.

3:16 I think you mean "there's bubbles of oceans, but they're never explained (FUCKING BUBBLES!!!)"

The Hollywood chart guys happily mining at the end was priceless.

To quote the late great Norm Macdonald and something Pan should of thought about more "Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.”

Pan 2015 - when the teaser trailer was better than movie itself. Glad I never saw this movie

Anyone here after watching Peter Pan & Wendy (2023)?

4:36 "but nuns don't work on sundays"

Hey. Atleast Hugh Jackman can sing....that costume he's wearing looks like it was pulled from a discount Ren Fair but atleast it's not boring.

That's crazy but everytime i feel like "Hum, it's benn a while since i saw a NC video", an episode is out in the evening (from Belgium so for us it's midnight right now).

19:06-19:11 And when The Giant Claw is laughing at you, you know you have an even BIGGER problem.

The sad thing is there's already a Peter Pan prequel story in book form that could've been so easily adapted by Disney at the time since they own the publishing rights to it; Peter & The Starcatchers.

6:39 It sounds like something you’d hear from One Piece, not Peter Pan.

Its so good to see you healthy and having a lot of fun, Doug. Keep recovering, please. Greetings from Mexico.

I absolutely adored Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates. I watched it when I was growing up.

One good thing about this movie is that when I went home after watching it, I watched the one from 2003 cause I needed a palette cleanser to get the taste of bad movie out of my eyes

5:25 SHUT IT! Oops, sorry, force of habit. Please review the Cornetto trilogy at some point.

Looks like a movie for the High School Musical crowd. I think the 70s were the last time musicals didn't suck. Now they're just cheesy fluff that make Elvis musicals look like Oscar winners.

It's funny that you mentioned "Jupiter Ascending", because the first thing I thought of when I saw Tiger Lily's "headdress" was Doona Bae's character in that movie.