i've never been the biggest pocahontas fan but i remember really liking the film when i was
younger so i recently rewatched it with a fresh pair of eyes and it turns out i actually liked
it more than i remembered so i thought i'd check out sequel pocahontas 2 journey to a new world
which was released in 1998 and it's directed by tom ellery and bradley raymond starring of course
irene bedard as pocahontas and part of me liked it there were certain things that i liked about it
and part of me thought it was lacking in substance and probably from a historical perspective
the representations of england the king the way in which they interacted with other people may
be questionable but you know if i were a child watching this certainly there are things that
work really well so to make a long story short pocahontas goes to england she goes to london
and she's basically going there to make a deal with the king because the king wants to buy back
um or to do a deal with with the land at jamestown and when she's there it's
realized pretty quickly that things are not as they seem and some lies have been told
but she befriends this pretty brilliant character um john rolfe watched by billy zayn i really
like him there's just something about the character that really struck me immediately um i
won't see what john smith's role in this is i will let you watch him find out but i was quite shocked
and i i was shocked but then i wasn't because i had some predictions after the initial reveal
but i won't say any more than that ultimately it's about getting pocahontas ready to meet with the
king and this goes by so quickly the film itself is an hour and 10 minutes i believe so it's not
the longest film ever but she's in london really quickly and we have this beautiful song i mean
it's terrible but it's fantastic when they first enter london and i don't know what the song's
called but it's fantastic it's cheesy it's cliche it's factually inaccurate but it's fantastic fun
and the music in this is pretty decent actually there are no songs that stand
out there are certainly nothing as powerful as colors of the wind or just around the riverbend
but i found the music to be quite engaging and i was really pleasantly surprised by that because i
wasn't really expecting very much the narrative itself as i said is probably full of historical
inaccuracies it is riddled with things that seem a bit unbelievable and a bit far-fetched but at the
same time i enjoyed the development of it through us some curveballs it's not completely predictable
pocahontas in the way in which she interacts with london could have been a
bit more curious obviously when she first steps on british soil uh or in london she
is curious about the surroundings because it's all very different to what she's used to but
then that quickly stops and she kind of quickly overcomes that and i would have liked to have
seen her interacting with some peculiar objects that she'd never seen before a little bit more
the scene that i think appeals most to the younger viewer well to everybody is to see when she's
getting her hair styled i just thought it was brilliant it was a lot of fun um very well edited
and mrs jenkins can we just take a moment to praise gene stapleton as mrs jenkins that
character is so underrated and absolutely think that fantastic character and i truly adored her
and the same has to be said for brad garrett's character now i'm going to try this
utta mata makkan is that right
the one who's nicknamed uti love him absolutely fantastic the best facial expressions or perhaps
lack thereof um i really thoroughly enjoyed him in this if he hadn't gone with pocahontas i wouldn't
have enjoyed the film less but i feel like he adds a little bit of something to it ultimately
i thought it was a pretty decent sequel i wasn't i genuinely wasn't expecting very much at all
but i i liked it now when i said that i kind of didn't like parts of it it's that i just feel like
it didn't feel quite as magical it didn't feel like a disney film which is weird because it is
but it feels like it's quite different to the first film and usually sequels have a very
similar style and theme but because this is set in london it's obviously drastically different
but i like that it's set in london i like that a lot i really liked it i'm not going
to pretend it's the best disney sequel ever but as far as what i assume is a direct video sequel
pocahontas 2 really is nowhere near as bad as i thought