First shot of animation: Mrs Darling silhouetted in the window, getting ready for a party. I don't thing anything moves in the establishing flyover of London.

The second round of features doesn't take the huge swings or innovate like the first five, but they're just more fun to watch. Not that they're a major regression either, the charm is in the character animation. And Hook climbing up into the camera while the rigging wiggles along the bottom of the frame is a technical achievement.

Tinker Bell's introduction is worrying her hips are too wide. Just a bundle of spunk and spite aimed in every direction for 80 minutes, she's great. You can tell girls are more emotionally mature than boys because Wendy has the capacity for jealousy.

Captain Hook shoots a guy. I think that's the first dead person in a Disney movie (deer aren't people). He is a highlight throughout. Different animators worked on him with different ideas of the character, but the inconsistency plays well. Like you never know just how dangerous he really is, so you can't let your guard down just in case.

I'd say this is also the first musical, in that characters sing in the action to further plot and emotional beats, in a much more integrated way than previous films. It's been a gradation, Alice was close, but if I had to draw a line I'd draw it here.

That Indian tribe though, right? They're elements of adventure fiction, not real people and certainly not a real culture. More in common with the mermaids across the island than anything. I've seen more mindful representation carved outside a cigar store.

No movie keeps the "clap if you believe in fairies" part, closest is stage productions that get filmed. Theater is a living thing. Animation is lively, but not alive. It's canned. I'm curious how it would be handled if they tried, but there's nothing wrong with a great big bomb.