I may have seen the trailer at the cinema, and like the critics I thought it looked more like the kind of Disney film better released straight to video, same goes for the atrocious The Jungle Book 2, but when it was available I watched. Basically Wendy Darling (Kath Soucie) has grown up and had two children, maturing daughter Jane (Harriet Owen) and little son Danny (Andrew McDonough) who enjoys the stories Peter Pan and Never Land. With father Edward (Roger Rees) leaving home to fight for the country, and the constant London bombings during the Blitz of the Second World War, Jane is very cynical, especially when it comes to the bedtime stories. But her opinion is to change when she gets kidnapped by Captain Hook (Corey Burton), mistaking her for Wendy, as bait for his enemy, the still not growing up Peter Pan (Blayne Weaver). Even Peter mistakes her for Wendy, and not being up for fun with him, Tinker Bell or the Lost Boys she really wants to get back home, but this cannot happen until she believes in the magic of imagination and finds a happy thought with pixie dust. Meanwhile Captain Hook and his silly sidekick Smee (Jeff Bennett) are trying to find out where Pan is as well as a way to get rid of him once and for all, while the Captain is also terrified by not the crocodile, but a giant octopus. In the end, after realising everything around her is real and that she should believe in it and save the life Tinker Bell, Jane does fly, Captain Hook is defeated, and Peter takes her back home and sees her mother before flying away, and Edward returns home. Also starring The Cat in the Hat's Spencer Breslin as Cubby, Jumanji's Bradley Pierce as Nibs and Additional Voices from The Simpsons' Dan Castellaneta and Jim Cummings. Essentially it is recycling all the themes from the J.M. Barrie book, the voices all sounding different doesn't help, the animation is average, and there isn't much to the story, but for the kids, not a terrible family animated musical adventure. Okay!
