Pocahontas | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

For a film which has been heralded as painstakingly PC, Pocahontas's conscience stretches only to portraying American Indians as human beings which, in 1995, hardly qualifies as a particularly sophisticated perspective.

Pocahontas triumphs when it forgets about patting the kiddies on their heads... When it reaches deep into its makers' imaginations to render concrete the ephemeral ideas and emotions at its core, the film achieves new levels of animated artistry.

Disney has created the first anti-animation movie, in which all of the fantasy flourishes that worked so well in the past are muted into dirt-brown dull.

You are still left with something fairly meaningless, although it's a pretty enough tale of racial reconciliation.

To dwell on what is "wrong" with Pocahontas is to risk what is missing what is right about it: the lush, intricate score by Alan Menken, who is composing finer music for Disney than anyone is for Broadway these days.