Magical, whimsical, richly colored, paced to romp, sprinkled with fairy dust and fun. Return to your childhood with your children. Fun for all ages, and a good date flick too. Where can you get all that in one film?

Sweet visuals and a smart script. The rigid grandmother commands the adolescent Wendy to step into womanhood, "Come towards me so that I might appraise you."

A band of the lost children in Neverland gather around a fallen Wendy, flat on her back, an arrow through her chest. One says, "Tragic." Another says, "Yeah, good shot though."

Surprisingly, a romantic puppy-love heart ticks in the underbelly of this playful dreamlike picture. Alas, there are a few actual deaths (kills), but those are all pirates and the deaths are not gory.

"I do believe in fairies! I do, I do!"

Says writer/director Hogan of casting, "Peter Pan has been a cartoon, onstage mainly played by a woman, and in 'Hook' he was 40 years old. Now a kid is finally getting to do the greatest role ever written for a kid. Jeremy is Peter Pan. He is wild, confident, boisterous, fun -- all those things that were so difficult to find in one kid. I was looking for the 12-year-old Errol Flynn."