History Film / Hook

* FailedASpockCheck: Played for drama when Peter, Moira, and Wendy arrive home in the aftermath of the kidnapping. Peter and Moira are so frantic to reach the Nursery and their kids that they completley miss the dagger-pinned ultimatum Hook left behind on the door (at least until Wendy, right behind them, spots it).

-->'''Hook:''' Don't try to stop me this time, Smee.\\

'''Hook:''' This is it. My finger's on the trigger. Don't try to stop me this time, Smee! ''Don't'' try to stop me this time, Smee! Don't you ''dare'' try to stop me this time [[BreathlessNonSequitur Smee try to stop me]].

** Hook's corruption of Jack as compensation for believing Peter won't be ready to fight before the deadline. He's so focused upon it and it works so well that Hook doesn't bother having his men prepare for the Ultimate War just in case Tinkerbell ''does'' fullfill her pledge. So, when the Lost Boys launch their attack, the Pirates are ''not'' ready to fight and it handicaps them for the entire climax.

* LostInImitation: More of a case of TruerToTheText compared to the Disney cartoon. The movie is significantly more effective if you're familiar with Barrie's original novel/play as opposed to, say, the Disney adaptation. That said, the captain's hook is on his left hand instead of his right, as in the Disney version, and a few elements such as the second star to the right that appear in other adaptations persist here.

* CatchPhrase:

* CelebrityParadox: In this universe, ''Peter Pan'' is the same much-loved story it is in ours; it just happens to be based on actual events.

* LiteralMetaphor: Tootles is an old man who appears very lost and confused. When we first see him, he tells everyone he's "lost his marbles", which is a metaphor for people that have gone insane/senile. [[BrickJoke Later on]], one of the Lost Boys gives Peter a bag of marbles, saying that they belong to Tootles. They laugh because, "He really did lose his marbles!"

* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear how exactly Tick-Tock the Crocodile springs back to life after spending god-knows-how-long supposedly dead and stuffed.

* AntagonistInMourning: While Peter Pan isn't dead, the Crocodile is, and in the absence of his two archenemies Hook has become a sullen mess whose greatest remaining pleasure is making empty suicide threats. He wants one last glorious war with Peter Pan, to the death, and is genuinely shaken when he discovers that Peter is now an out-of-shape middle aged coward with no memory of Neverland.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Tinkerbell is barefoot throughout. This is a real trait of Julia Roberts herself that was included.

* FoodPorn: The imaginary food becoming real.

* StockholmSyndrome: Captain Hook tries to invoke this on Peter (Pan) Banning's children. It works on Jack but not Maggie, and even then Jack realizes that his father ''does'' love him whereas Hook is a murdering asshole.

* AdaptedOut: More like glossed over, but the book ends with establishing that Wendy's daughter and then granddaughter [[GenerationXerox go to Neverland]] with Peter in turn after Wendy gets too old. The film includes Wendy's granddaughter in its story as Peter's wife, but Wendy's daughter (or son) never figures into the story beyond necessarily existing. In a key flashback sequence, the young Peter meets the young Wendy, then he keeps meeting her while she ages, until it's finally older Wendy and her granddaughter (in the 1960s-1970s, due to the Beatles posters on the walls). In the equivalent scene in the book, it's just Wendy and her daughter.

** As always, Smee is called "Mouche" ("Flea") in French.

* DutchAngle: When Mr. Smee has his "apostrophe" (i.e. his epiphany) that they could get Peter's kids to love Captain Hook, the camera suddenly tilts into a Dutch angle. Then as Smee begins walking toward Hook, it cants back and forth with each step, like the rocking of a boat.

Compare and contrast with ''Film/ReturnToOz'', ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'', and especially ''Film/ChristopherRobin'' (which works off the Literature/WinnieThePooh stories).

* ChewOutFakeOut: Peter looks like he is about to scold Jack and Maggie for opening the window, a CallBack to an earlier scolding. Instead he tells them, “Always leave it open!” showing that he has been truly changed by his time in Neverland.

* MythologyGag: At one point, Peter says to the Lost Boys "It's Hook or me this time". This is the name of one of the chapters from the original ''Peter and Wendy'' novel.
* Hook telling Peter to "strike... strike true" is taken from one of the Lost Boys telling Peter to execute him after he apparently kills Wendy by mistake.

* JerkToNiceGuyPlot: Peter goes from a ChildHater, FantasyForbiddingFather, and AbusiveParent to his former identity as Peter Pan and a better father towards his children, while Rufio grows to respect and be fond of Peter after initial tensions between the two.

* {{Abusive Parent|s}}:
** While not intentionally abusive Peter is often absent in his children's lives, and misses many important moments (such as Jack's baseball game at the beginning) by putting his work before his family and angrily telling Jack at one point to grow up. Eventually he lets out an angry BigShutUp against his children playing while he is having a phone call.
** Implied with Rufio, [[spoiler: if his dying words are anything to go by.]]