4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Either Peter really hates the 1991 film Hook or he’s suffering from some serious Peter Pan envy … or maybe both!
Welcome to a special bonus episode of Nerdette Recaps with Peter Sagal! his week it’s all about Steven Spielberg’s Peter Pan sequel, starring Dustin Hoffman as the titular captain, Robin Williams as an adult Peter Pan and Julia Roberts as Tinker Bell. Listen as Peter explains why he thinks Hook is Spielberg’s worst film, hear Tricia defend it to the death and see Greta play arbiter.
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0:00.0 | Neverland has two moons. Did you notice that? |
0:02.1 | Yes, I did notice that as I was desperate looking for things to distract myself from what was going on in the center of the screen. |
0:20.0 | From WBEZ Chicago, this is a magical extra bonus edition of Nerdat Recaps. |
0:26.9 | I'm Greta Johnson. |
0:27.9 | I'm Trisha Bobita. |
0:29.1 | And Peter, how did you ever manage to fit into those smashing tights again? |
0:33.5 | From hell's heart, I stab it thee, Trisha. |
0:39.5 | That's not a line from Hook, is it? |
0:41.2 | That isn't, no, but it's how I'm feeling. |
0:43.9 | That was just from his heart. |
0:45.4 | About being forced to watch this movie again. |
0:47.0 | I actually, because we've been talking about it, right, |
0:50.8 | and I honestly thought that one of the great ways that this sort of low-level |
0:55.4 | argument over Hook Kadam would be like in a very much green eggs and ham kind of way, in which |
1:01.4 | 30 years after seeing it for the first time, I watch it again. And I'm like, oh, wow, this movie is |
1:06.6 | charming and great. I love magic. I love magic and joy and childhood. And imagination. |
1:12.4 | Exactly. But no, I hate all those things just as much as I did. I was a little worried that watching |
1:17.8 | it in 2020, I would have the opposite reaction I've had for my entire life, particularly when I was |
1:22.8 | five years old and watched it every day on VHS. Yeah, how to go for you this time, Trisha? |
1:27.8 | I love every second of this movie, and I will fight to the death. |
1:31.4 | I'm only sad, Trisha. |
1:33.2 | I just want to say it's been great being friends with you. |
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