Review 717: Pocahontas

                                                                                                    Pocahontas is easily one of Disney's best looking and sounding animated features and surprisingly one their most serious and thoughtful 

The film looks and sounds gorgeous.

The films themes of rascim, colonization and war while handled in a  are definitely worth exploring. Pocahontas is a film about real issues, even if it treats them with naive idealism

The central core of the film is a love story of Star-Crossed Lovers between Pocahontas and John Smith  Too often, it feels like Disney were trying to recapture the epic romance of Beauty and the Beast

The films vision of the Native American landscape of that time is breathtaking

Pocahontas is someone who's trying to do right by her people and strives for peace among them and the white settlers but  She's in tune with the nature of the land and is not afraid to stand up to her father's

Ratcliffe is just an oaf. He just wants to loot the land.  David Ogden Stiers (who also voiced Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast) does a lot 

Kocoum is just a very thinly drawn character who doesn't have much of a personality other than as Pocahontas herself put "Serious"

Nakoma and Pocahontas have been friends since childhood, they  The contrast between her and Pocahontas was very fun and makes up for the attempts at comic relief courtesy of animals Meeko, Flit and Percy.