13 Movies You Loved As A Child (But Hate As An Adult)

9. Hook (1991)

For his adaptation of J. M. Barrie's classic fairytale, Steven Spielberg decided to take Peter Pan and turn him into Peter Banning, a 40-year-old lawyer who has lost all memory of being Pan and is in danger of losing his family to his demanding job. When Peter and the Banning family travel to London to visit Granny Wendy, however, the children are kidnapped by Captain Hook and Peter has to re-discover his happy thoughts, transform himself into the Peter Pan of old and return to Neverland to rescue his kids. A re-watch of Hook will leave you wondering just why it was that you loved it so much as a kid, because the film is so heavy on exposition that moments of real magic seem very few and far between. While Dustin Hoffman does a decent enough job as the eponymous pirate, this is very much a case of a $70 million budget and a 70 cent script that, let's be honest, was about 70 pages too long. It was some adventure back then, but Hook will have you walking the plank willingly nowadays.