Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998) (V)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Directors:

Tom Ellery
Bradley Raymond

Writers:

Allen Estrin (writer) and
Cindy Marcus (writer) ...

Release Date:

4 August 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Adventure | Family

Tagline:

The All-New Movie

Plot:

Pocahontas sets of on a journey to England with Meeko, Flit, and Percy. Hearing rumors of John Smith's death...

Plot Keywords:

Pocahontas | John Smith | Rotoscoping | Animal | Tower Of London

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Irene Bedard	...	Pocahontas (voice)
Jim Cummings	...	King James (voice)
Donal Gibson	...	John Smith (voice)
Finola Hughes	...	Additional voices (voice)
Linda Hunt	...	Grandmother Willow (voice)
Judy Kuhn	...	Pocahontas (singing voice)
Russell Means	...	Powhatan (voice)
Jean Stapleton	...	Mrs. Jenkins (voice)
David Ogden Stiers	...	Ratcliffe (voice)
Billy Zane	...	John Rolfe (voice)
Jeff Bennett	...	Additional voices (voice)
Bob Bergen	...	Additional voices (voice) (as Robert Bergen)
Mark S. Brien	...	Additional voices (voice) (as Mark Steven Brien)
Rodger Bumpass	...	Additional voices (voice)
Amick Byram	...	Additional voices (voice)

Also Known As:

Disney's Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (USA) (complete title)
Pocahontas: Journey to a New World (USA) (closing credits title)

Runtime:

72 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:L | Germany:o.Al. | Australia:G | UK:U

Company:

Walt Disney Pictures

Trivia:

Most of the bear sounds are real, but one loud sound during the "bear baiting" sequence was actually an elephant.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Pocahantas is sitting at the king's table, her hair jewels disappear for a second, but then reappear.

Quotes:

Mrs. Jenkins: Oh! I'll put on lots and lots of tea.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#21.15)" (1999)

The things I do for my kids...

Including having this piece of garbage in the house. I thought I'd seen the worst of Disney crap with the Beauty and the Beast sequel, but I was wrong. This is much worse. The dialogue is unbelievable - would anyone in the 17th century have talked about "respecting my culture" the way this thoroughly PC Pocahontas does? The cartooning is dreadful - James I is portrayed as a ninny, who makes the old Bugs Bunny parody of Charles Laughton as Nero look like a Holbein portrait. There's some silly "My Fair Lady" plot tossed in, complete with historically nowhere costuming. But the worst thing is the music. It's smeared on everything, like a layer of cheap paint, and it is all completely pointless. This movie gives rise to the question, fatal for any musical, "What is this music here FOR?" In a good musical, the music and songs are supposed to add layers of meaning that mere spoken dialogue can't do - sort of like reaching for another medium to convey more than you can do with words. But in this, the music is just stuck on there because - well, because this is a Disney film, and that's what Disney films DO. It goes on and on - half the time I think they put in songs because a song will take up 3 or 4 minutes, and will use up more time than a spoken line. The dialogue seemed to be tiny little bridges between one ghastly song after another. And everything was a cliche - the chorus was always shouting, the English were always singing some jiggity-jiggity-jig song and Pocahontas was forever warbling long, flowing ballads. The whole thing is a mess.