Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Yes, it is one of those infamous Disney sequels we all love to hate. But since the original Pocahontas was not that great, I do not entirely share the hatred towards this one. There is a plot hole about Ratcliffe's return I feel is a little irritating, but that is pretty much the only thing. The animation is not bad, it just lacks some of those moments from the original (during Colors of the Wind and Savages for example). The movie presents to us a couple of new character I actually like. Pocahontas' bodyguard is hilarious! Mrs. Jenkins is a likable clumsy character and John Rolfe is a little bland, but decent. I found Pocahontas' and Uti's interactions with the London crowd and the royals amusing. The best part of the movie.The original Pocahontas has one of my favorite songs in the Disney catalog (Colors of the Wind), but aside from that the songs were forgettable. Ratcliffe was a weak villain and the romance was boring. Despite the aforementioned plot hole about Ratcliffe, I find his motivations more interesting in this one. The music also decent ("Where Do I Go From Here" is the most memorable). I cannot be offended by Pocahontas' rejection of John Smith in this, because I find their romance was non-existing in the original. Despite the the still visible downgrade in the visual pleasing from the original this one is not a giant leap backwards compared to other Disney sequels (Hunchback, Lion King, Beauty and the Beast etc.)

Spoiler Alert - I simply had to create an account on IMDb just so I could rate this movie.If you haven't watched it yet, consider yourself lucky. Don't watch it. It'll leave you with a very disappointed feeling and will be a waste of an hour and 13 minutes of your life.Okay, yes, obviously the creators of the first Pocahontas didn't pay attention during history class, but Disney is not supposed to be historically accurate. Their movies are inspired by these legends, not entirely based off of them. I personally think the first movie was amazing, and one of my favorites, despite all the mistakes.However, Disney had to go on and create another sequel to Pocahontas, and instead of making the beautiful movie they had created before, they make two dimensional characters, bland lines, and songs that didn't seem to fit into the scene.Even worse, and this part is the part that disappointing me the most, instead of ending up with the original hero, John Smith, Pocahontas decides to go with the newly introduced main male character, John Rolfe. Yes, Disney actually got this little fact right; she does end up marrying him in reality, but do I care? When I get to the end of this movie, I expect the original couple to be together! What happened to "I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years not knowing you", or "I'll always be with you. Forever."? *Sigh* "It'd would have been better if we had never met. None of this would have happened" Yes, maybe it would have been Pocahontas. Then you could have gotten together with John Rolfe and I wouldn't be /quite/ so disappointed with the second movie.

I first saw this film when I was about 12 or 13 when my dad rented it from his gym and while I found it an average film to begin with, it was also forgettable apart from the brief running gag of Meeko's seasickness. Fast forward several years later, I watched the Nostalgia Chick's 'Top 5 Least Awful Disney Sequels' where she placed this at no. 5 tied with 'The Lion King II: Simba's Pride' and the clips from this film refreshed my memory to a certain extent. More recently after having re-visited the lovely original, I decided to watch this on Amazon Instant Video and as I watched it, I was surprised at how I enjoyed it even more than I did first time around despite a couple of cons.Beginning with these cons, the animation quality is not as good as that in the first with the odd jerky movement and a Saturday morning cartoon look, particularly on the background characters, despite some effective uses of cel-shading, lighting and the principles of follow through and overlapping action and squash and stretch. The second con is that there are some historical inaccuracies with regard to Pocahontas visiting England (the original had similar inaccuracies too) but in spite of this the story on the whole is engaging, especially when Pocahontas is adjusting to British customs.Further to the positives, the incidental music is surprisingly good for a DTV sequel as it sounds cinematic and majestic in parts. While the songs here are not quite as good as the ones in the original, I really liked 'Where Do I Go From Here?,' 'What a Day in London' and 'Things Are Not What They Appear' as well as the gorgeous closing credits song. The characters who appeared in the original make a welcoming return, especially Pocahontas herself and Meeko, Flit and Percy (who are their usual cute and amusing selves here), but Nakoma and Grandmother Willow get considerably less screen time here than they did in the original, but this makes sense nonetheless. There are some worthwhile new characters such as John Rolfe, his supportive maid Mrs Jenkins albeit her somewhat repetitive dialogue about putting the tea on and Uti, who rarely speaks but is strong-willed nonetheless. The dialogue was decent but predictable in parts. Despite Donal Gibson replacing his brother for the voice of John Smith, he did his best to recreate the voice while Irene Bedard (speaking) and Judy Khun (singing) were more than welcome as Pocahontas; David Ogden Stiers was as menacing for John Ratcliffe; and Billy Zane and Jim Cummings were great as John Rolfe and King James respectively.Overall, the animation quality may be slightly lacklustre here but otherwise this film was far more enjoyable second time around with its story, inaccuracies aside, and music as its best pros. 8/10.

Why'd they turn John Smith into a Douchebag? That's pretty well all that needs to be said, John Smith was very understanding and compassionate in the first movie, love of Pocahontas' life, the key element in the whole movie and the second movie.... John who? Well John Rolfe and they turn John Smith into a douche bag who seeks attention and is captain cocky with arrogance to remove him from the whole thing. And in the end John Smith is kind of like well that life changing relationship that stopped a war between races isn't that big of a deal and Pocahontas ends up with the random guy!!!!So they ruined a good movie, a good character and had to get second rate voice talents to cover it up e.g. it's not Mel Gibson... but we got his brother, close enough right? So to make up for it, we'll make him speak as little as possible and remove him from the picture.