From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Return to Never Land
Promotional poster for Return to Neverland.
Directed by	Robin Budd Donovan Cook (co-director)
Produced by	Cheryl Abood Christopher Chase Dan Rounds
Written by	Temple Matthews (screenwriter) Carter Crocker (additional material) (based on J.M. Barrie's characters and Walt Disney's 1953 film
Starring	Harriet Owen Blayne Weaver Corey Burton Jeff Bennett Kath Soucie Spencer Breslin Jim Cummings Frank Welker Dan Castellaneta Rob Paulsen
Music by	Joel McNeely
Editing by	Antonio F. Rocco
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures
Release date(s)	February 15, 2002
Running time	72 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$20 million
Preceded by	Peter Pan (1953)
IMDb profile

Ratings
Argentina:	Atp
Australia:	G
Brazil:	Livre
Canada:	G
Finland:	S
France:	U
Germany:	o.Al.
Malaysia:	U
Netherlands:	AL
Norway:	7
Peru:	PT
Philippines:	G
Spain:	T
Sweden:	Btl
Switzerland:	6 (canton of the Grisons), 7 (canton of Vaud)
Thailand:	G
United Kingdom:	U
United States:	G

Return to Never Land (also known as Peter Pan: Return to Never Land) is a 2002 animated feature produced by the DisneyToons studio in Sydney, Australia and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. It was originally produced as a direct-to-video sequel to Walt Disney's 1953 film Peter Pan, but was released theatrically first. It included digitally animated sequences and an all-new voice cast. Return to Never Land was released on a DVD on November 27, 2007.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Differences from the novel 3 Voice cast 4 Production notes 5 Soundtrack 5.1 Track listing 6 Reception 7 References 8 External links

The film begins in difficult times, centered around the year 1940 during Blitzkrieg by Germany, over London, England, also called the Battle of Britain. Former playmate Wendy Darling has grown up, married, and had two children of her own: a daughter, Jane, and a son, Daniel. When her husband, Edward, leaves to fight in World War II, Wendy is left alone to raise her children through such dangerous events as the threat of bombing. She tries to tell them stories of Peter Pan to make them feel lighthearted, but Jane has nevertheless become bitter and serious.

One night, Jane, wearing a trenchcoat, is on her way home with her dog. They are soon caught in a bombing raid, but she manages to reach the bomb shelter in time. Wendy hugs Jane, and Jane proceeds to give her 4-year-old brother Daniel a birthday present, a pair of socks. Wendy tells Daniel the story of Peter Pan while Jane listens to her radio. After the story, her notebook slips from her hands as Daniel throws something to her, and she and Daniel start playing pranks together.

Wendy discovers that her children will be evacuated to the safer countryside on the following morning. When Jane learns of this, she acts out, belittling the Peter Pan stories her mother tells and ridiculing her brother's faith in them. Jane is sent to her room (which is also the Darlings' old nursery) as punishment, and falls asleep on the window seat.

While she sleeps, Captain Hook, who has sailed through the skies on his now enchanted pirate ship, abducts the girl he thinks is Wendy. An air raid siren sounds, he plans to use her as bait to lure Peter Pan into a fatal trap, and takes her to Neverland.

Hook's plan is to feed Jane to a giant octopus, but to allow Pan enough time to arrive, he first suspends her above the hungry monster, who is lured to the surface with fish heads. Pan, hearing Jane's cries flies at full speed to the scene where a cartoonish battle ensues.

Peter Pan quickly rescues the girl, and upon finding she is Wendy's daughter, assumes she would like to follow in her mother's footsteps. He takes her home to be mother to the Lost Boys, but Jane can't stand Neverland or the rowdy gang of boys. They try to make her have fun and to teach her to fly, but she fails because she does not believe. In another outburst she blurts out she doesn't even believe in fairies. But suddenly, Tinker Bell falls sick. Jane runs away, and at a vulnerable moment strikes a bargain with Hook. She reluctantly agrees to help him find his treasure, but as long as he promises not to harm Peter. Hook signs a contract, swearing not to harm a single hair on Peter Pan's head, and he gives Jane a little whistle, telling her to "give it a wee toot" when she locates the treasure before he disappears into the darkness. After returning home and receiving an apology from Peter, she admits she would like to become the first Lost Girl. So Jane's training begins as a Lost Girl. Although Tinker Bell falls more ill every day, dying from lack of faith, the children are out having fun and searching for buried treasure.

Jane finds the treasure in a cave, and almost calls out that she's found it, but stops herself, and throws Hook's whistle away. Peter then makes Jane a Lost Girl. Unfortunately, one of the Lost Boys finds Hook's whistle and blows it. Hook and crew arrive, and take out Peter Pan, and trap the Lost Boys in a sack. Jane tells Hook he promised he wouldn't hurt Peter, and the pirate plucks a single hair from Peter's head, saying that this is the one hair he won't harm.

Jane runs home to find Tinker Bell on the verge of death. After an emotional healing, she and Tinker Bell hurry to the Jolly Roger.

On Hook's ship we see the Lost boys tied to a pole and Peter Pan with handcuffs. Then Hook forces Peter Pan to walk the plank but Jane, who saves Peter, becomes the hero and finally, with the help of "faith, trust, and pixie dust" learns to fly. But Hook got Jane trapped, but Peter saved her by cutting his rope with his dagger and send his ship sinking. Hook and the pirates exit via a rowboat, pursued by the gigantic orange octopus who has replaced the crocodile. Ironically, the octopus mistakes the pirates for codfish and even imitates the crocodile's ticking with its slug-like eyes.

It all ends on a happy note, with Jane returning home just as the war is ending. Peter is briefly reunited with Wendy, and, although he is not happy to find that she has grown-up, he is glad to discover she has not lost faith in him. At the very end, a truck pulls up to Wendy's front door, bringing Jane's father Edward home. After observing the happy family reunion, Peter Pan and Tinker Bell quietly fly away.

Although the final chapter in Barrie's Peter and Wendy deals with Wendy's family and daughter Jane, Return to Never Land, like its prequel, is only slightly based on the novel. It is really more of a modern sequel for Disney's 1953 animated film version. As a result, there are several differences. For example, most of the characters who were killed or died in the book, or grew up in the book, primarily Hook and Tinker Bell, return for this film. This is most likely due to their marketing popularity and the fact that they never actually died in the first film.

In the novel, the Lost Boys returned to London with Wendy and grew up like normal children, but in Return to Never Land they have stayed as young and immortal as Peter Pan himself. Even Nana, the kind nurse-dog, is reincarnated in the form of Saint Bernard Nana-two. the Crocodile appears in Return to Neverland when Peter and the Lost Boys look for Jane Slightey pops up out his mouth There are also differences with the character of Jane and the period during which she is growing up. Disney's Jane is modern: tomboyish and independent, and fully capable of taking care of herself; but Barrie's Jane plays the part of a new Wendy - motherly and domestic. In the novel,Peter returned to London looking for Wendy for "spring cleaning", but because Wendy grew up,he took Jane instead.Jane was very willing to go to Neverland and she liked listening her mother's Peter Pan stories, unlike in the movie, in which she thinks they are lies. (As previously mentioned, Captain Hook had been killed, so he could not kidnap Jane under any circumstances.) Finally, Wendy's son Danny and husband Edward are new characters created for Return to Never Land - they were not in Peter and Wendy.

• Harriet Owen as Jane and Young Wendy Darling
• Blayne Weaver as Peter Pan
• Corey Burton as Captain Hook
• Jeff Bennett as Smee and the Pirates
• Kath Soucie as Adult Wendy Darling
• Andrew McDonough as Danny
• Roger Rees as Edward
• Spencer Breslin as Cubby
• Bradley Pierce as Nibs
• Quinn Beswick as Slightly
• Aaron Spann as Twins
• Dan Castellaneta, Jim Cummings, Rob Paulsen, Clive Revill, Frank Welker, Cameron Jesse King and Wally Wingert as the additional voices

Because most of the original voice cast from the film had died, including Hans Conried (the voice of Captain Hook) and Bobby Driscoll (the voice of Peter Pan), an entirely new cast of actors had to be used to film this sequel. As the voice of Wendy in Walt Disney's Peter Pan, Kathryn Beaumont recorded all of Wendy's dialogue for Return to Never Land. However, for unknown reasons, Disney later had Kathie Soucie completely rerecord the role.^[1]

Joel McNeely composed the score of Return to Never Land.

1. "Do You Believe in Magic?"
   • BBMak
2. "Main Title"
3. "Second Star to the Right"
4. "Tale of Pan"
5. "I'll Try"
6. "Jane Is Kidnapped"
7. "Childhood Lost"
8. "Here We Go Another Plan"
9. "Summoning the Octopus/Pan Saves Jane"
10. "Flight Through Never Land"
11. "So to Be One of Us"
12. "Meet the Lost Boys"
13. "Now That You're One of Us"
    • Jonatha Brooke
14. "Longing for Home"
15. "Hook and the Lost Boys"
    • Jonatha Brooke
16. "Hook Deceives Jane"
17. "Jane Finds the Treasure"
    • Jonatha Brooke
18. "Pan Is Captured"
19. "I'll Try (Reprise)"
    • Jeff Bennett
20. "Jane Saves Tink and Pan"
21. "Jane Can Fly"
22. "Flying Home"
23. "Reunion"

Return to Neverland grossed $48,423,368 domestically and $26,481,222 worldwide, for a total of $74,904,590. With an estimated budget of $20,000,000, this made Return to Neverland a low, but successful theatrical release.

• Return to Never Land at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e Peter Pan
Major Characters	Peter Pan - Wendy Darling - Captain Hook - Tinker Bell - John Darling - Michael Darling - The Lost Boys - Smee - Tiger Lily - George Darling - Mary Darling
Official Books and Stage Plays	The Little White Bird - Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up - Peter and Wendy - Peter Pan in Scarlet
Feature Films	Peter Pan (1924) - Peter Pan (1953) - Peter Pan (2003) - Hook - Return to Never Land - Tinker Bell

v • d • e Disney theatrical animated features
Official canon	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) • Pinocchio (1940) • Fantasia (1940) • Dumbo (1941) • Bambi (1942) • Saludos Amigos (1942) • The Three Caballeros (1944) • Make Mine Music (1946) • Fun and Fancy Free (1947) • Melody Time (1948) • The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) • Cinderella (1950) • Alice in Wonderland (1951) • Peter Pan (1953) • Lady and the Tramp (1955) • Sleeping Beauty (1959) • One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) • The Sword in the Stone (1963) • The Jungle Book (1967) • The Aristocats (1970) • Robin Hood (1973) • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) • The Rescuers (1977) • The Fox and the Hound (1981) • The Black Cauldron (1985) • The Great Mouse Detective (1986) • Oliver & Company (1988) • The Little Mermaid (1989) • The Rescuers Down Under (1990) • Beauty and the Beast (1991) • Aladdin (1992) • The Lion King (1994) • Pocahontas (1995) • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) • Hercules (1997) • Mulan (1998) • Tarzan (1999) • Fantasia 2000 (1999) • The Emperor's New Groove (2000) • Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) • Lilo & Stitch (2002) • Treasure Planet (2002) • Brother Bear (2003) • Home on the Range (2004) • Chicken Little (2005) • Meet the Robinsons (2007) • Bolt (2008) • The Princess and the Frog (2009) • Rapunzel (2010)
Live-action films with animation	The Reluctant Dragon (1941) • Victory Through Air Power (1943) • Song of the South (1946) • So Dear to My Heart (1949) • Mary Poppins (1964) • Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) • Pete's Dragon (1977) • Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) • Enchanted (2007)
DisneyToon features	DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) • A Goofy Movie (1995) • Doug's 1st Movie (1999) • The Tigger Movie (2000) • Recess: School's Out (2001) • Return to Never Land (2002) • The Jungle Book 2 (2003) • Piglet's Big Movie (2003) • Teacher's Pet (2004) • Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)
Other	The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) • James and the Giant Peach (1996) • Dinosaur (2000) • A Christmas Carol (2009)
See also	Pixar • Walt Disney Animation Studios