Return to Never Land

"The classic continues."

2002 1h 12m EN

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6.5

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★6.5TMDB · 2,433

AdventureFantasyAnimationFamily

Synopsis

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In 1940, the world is besieged by World War II. Wendy, all grown up, has two children; including Jane, who does not believe Wendy's stories about Peter Pan.

“The classic continues.”

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Cast

Harriet Owen
Jane / Young Wendy (Voice)
Blayne Weaver
Peter Pan (Voice)
Jeff Bennett
Smee / Pirates (Voice)
Kath Soucie
Wendy Darling (voice)
Corey Burton
Captain Hook (voice)
Andrew McDonough
Danny (voice)
Roger Rees
Edward (voice)
Spencer Breslin
Cubby (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Robin Budd
Writers: Temple Mathews
Languages: English
Countries: Australia, Canada, United States of America

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RUNTIME

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Tight 72-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Made its money back 5.5× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 24 years ago.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 3 countries: Australia, Canada, United States of America.

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5 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Peter Pan Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Joel McNeely. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Anthony Rocco shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Harriet Owen and Blayne Weaver and Jeff Bennett carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Robin Budd directs. Joel McNeely scores. Anthony Rocco cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in Australia, Canada, United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

1Tight 72-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
2Made its money back 5.5× over at the box office.
3Released 24 years ago.
4International production across 3 countries: Australia, Canada, United States of America.
5Part of the "Peter Pan Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6Original score by Joel McNeely. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Anthony Rocco shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Harriet Owen and Blayne Weaver and Jeff Bennett carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "The classic continues.".
10IMDB entry: tt0280030 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Released under 28 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Original score: Joel McNeely
Editing: Anthony Rocco
Production design: John Kleber
Runtime: 72 min · 1h 12m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $20,000,000
Box office: $109,862,682
Return: 549% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): G
IMDB: Return to Never Land (2002)

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Peter Pan Collection

Disney presents Peter Pan and his continuing adventures.

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Kamurai2020-07-24
★ 3/10
Bad watch, won't watch again, and can't recommend unless you're just a huge Peter Pan fan and a completionist. This is in that run of unnecessary sequels Disney did to make some cheap bucks; it's (clearly) also right after they started in with digital animation. While they managed to capture Peter and the lost boys fairly well, Hook and Shmee are more like loose cartoony references to their former selves. Jane and Wendy seem to have the most detail put into their animation. The (classic) crocodile was replaced with an octopus (but still includes a suction cup version of tik-toking) by a visual director that barely understood what an octopus was. Now, being that I'm generally opposed to the octopus in general, I happen to know a few things about octopus so giving it snail-like eyes, a beak AND teeth, as well as an over-sized tongue broke me a little. The behaviors were typically way off, to include swimming with it's arms above water (they typically help with the locomotion) and some weird physics when climbing the boat. Also, we've pretty much pinpointed the inspiration for Neverland Island, which does actually include salt water crocodiles, but as it is in the Caribbean, this Giant Pacific Octopus is completely out of place. The animation style was also shifting from scene to scene, object to object. Sometimes it is very jarring, a digital cell character atop a cg rendered log, or other times it's a cg rendered background against the digital cell animation of the ship (or vice versa) that really took me out of it as it just looked so unnatural. I'll site "Titan A.E." (Fox) and "Treasure Planet" (Disney) as too different examples where it was blended much more smoothly. I actually like the premise better: Hook kidnap's Wendy's daughter, but the movie does so many weird things. Even though the original movie was officially set in the 1950s, Wendy grows at least 4-6 years to 18 to have a 12 year old daughter and a (generously) 3 year old boy, but the entire world travels backwards to WW2. Even if we retro the original setting, make Wendy....30?, that means the original occurred in 1929 at the latest, as this sequel could occur during 1945 at the latest, and I just did more math than I'm comfortable with to enjoy a movie. And this bad movie has the audacity to drop like real dilemmas in the middle: obligation to family vs trustworthiness, acceptance of others, and this crazy mechanical suggestion about how The Fey of the island work. Does belief of faeries / pixies matter, is it disbelief that actually harms them? Look, this isn't the worst thing to watch, but I honestly kind of regret my time spent on it.

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