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Monday, July 03, 1995

Pocahontas (1995)

Cast: Irene Bedard, Judy Kuhn, Mel Gibson, David Ogden Stiers
For complete cast info, see IMDb's Pocahontas page.

Definitely not the best Disney animated picture out there (or even in the top 10), but the animation is pretty good, the songs are decent, and the story could have been worse. The main problem with this is that the original story of Pocahontas includes so much violence that the story had to be cut drastically to fit with a Disney animated movie.

What's really sad is that parents still complain that Pocahontas makes the "white man" look bad. Working for Disney makes it difficult to respond. What I'd like to say is, "Hello! Do you know ANYTHING about history? We came in and murdered tons of people! Disney was KIND and really made us look a lot better than we were in real life." But, what I say is entirely different... ("I'm so sorry that you feel that way," etc.) Worth renting for the music. Alan Menken did a great job with that as he has in almost everything he's done.

Grade: C+

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