History Film / Hook

* EvilDetectingDog: Nana is the first to notice that Hook is about to arrive at Wendy's house.

* FoodFight: Which turns out to mark a breakthrough for Peter, because Neverfood is invisible to those who don't believe it's there.

** Phil Collins as a police inspector.

* BambooTechnology

* ShoutOut: Tootles shouts "Seize the day!" in the final scene, a reference to ''DeadPoetsSociety'' and Robin Williams' character.
** And also Smee shouting "GOOD MOOOOOOOORNING NEVERLAND!", in reference to ''GoodMorningVietnam''.
** One that is also a case of RealLife ActorAllusion for RobinWilliams occurs when Peter learns to use his imagination again. Rufio gets pissed and throws a coconut at him. Someone throws Peter a sword; he sticks the sword out and executes a perfect [[LegendOfZelda spinning blade attack]].

* {{Jerkass}}: Peter in the first act. He was so reprehensible that this troper was almost happy the kids got taken away from him; he stifled Maggie's creativity, he broke promises to Jack, and he seemed very inattentive to anything not business-related overall, not to mention him being overly protective and neurotic about kids just playing and having fun. This troper doesn't even want to imagine how bad the bed life with the wife was...
** If one considers fighting tooth and nail to leave work in time to make it to a baseball game and being crushed when one finds that they're too late, then being treated like shit by one's son over it to be "breaking a promise", that is.
*** Sure, but he had promised days ago, clearly, probably even weeks, that he would come to the game. Then he scheduled a meeting the night before the game. Jack reminded him, as he was making the appointment, he promised again, and then still missed it. Yes, he tried, but he could easily have said "Oh wait, no, that won't work, how about next week?"
*** He is also very quick to chastise his kids, as demonstrated in the beginning when he shouts at the kids to put a sock in it. Although, this was somewhat made understandable and/or realistic by the fact that the kids were jumping up and down like wild monkeys and he was having a business call at the time, showing the stress he is having, trying to juggle family life and work.
** While the Jerkass moments were necessary for the later CharacterDevelopment, they can also come across as confusing since, as later revealed, Peter's fondest wish was to become a father. Something must have happened down the line that ''really'' turned him sour.

* {{Malaproper}}: Smee says "apostrophe" instead of "epiphany," etc.

* AdultChild: Peter after he regains his memories. Inverted slightly with Ruffio.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Tinkerbell is barefoot throughout, thanks being played by JuliaRoberts.

** Jack's picture on the plane. "How come I didn't have a parachute, Jackie?" "Take a wild guess." Bet the audience can. He's Peter Pan.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Tinkerbell is barefoot throughout.

* FridgeBrilliance: In most performances of ''Peter Pan'', the actor who plays the children's father [[AndYouWereThere also plays]] Captain Hook. In this story, the children's father ''is'' Peter Pan.
** This isn't taking into account that not only did Wendy call Peter a pirate in the first act, but Hook then went and developed a father/son relationship with Peter's son Jack for a good chunk of the second and third acts.
*** A bit of brilliance that is mentioned elsewhere on ThisVeryWiki is the fact that when Tinkerbell first appears onscreen, she's speaking english, whereas in every other version of PeterPan she "speaks" with a chiming noise, because only people from Neverland can understand her. However, the only person she speaks to outside of Neverland is Peter. That's the clue; for everything else Peter has forgotten about Neverland, he can still talk to faeries.

* HoYay: Bob Hoskins said that he portrayed Smee's character as though he was in a homosexual relationship with Hook.

* Banning! Banning! Banning is Banarang!

Wendy reveals to Peter that she and her brothers were not only the ones who gave James M. Barrie the inspiration to write ''Peter Pan'', but that the story was an account of true experiences. Peter is the now-grown-up Pan, and Captain Hook still wants revenge upon him, so he kidnapped the kids. Having no memory of life before he was twelve years old, he does not believe this -- but later that night, he is approached by Tinkerbell (Julia Roberts) herself, and she hauls him off to Neverland.

* TaxidermyTerror: Hook meets his end when the Crocodile he "had stuffed and turned into a village clock" (paraphrased) comes back to life at the end of the movie, and swallows him alive.

* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:[[OnlyMostlyDead Turns out that the crocodile wasn't so dead after all]] -- when Peter rams Hook's hook into the clock to stop a blow, it brings it back to life, whereupon it falls atop Hook and eats him.]]
** [[spoiler: isn't it possible it actually was dead and the tower just fell and crushed him, broke his neck or something?]]

'''Hook:''' [[YouKeepUsngThatWord I think you mean an epiphany.]]\\

'''Smee:''' Lightning has just struck me brain!