Return to Never Land

Decades after the events of the first film, Wendy is now grown up and married to a man named Edward and has two children, Jane and Daniel "Danny". With World War II raging, Edward leaves to fight, leaving Wendy to take care of the children. Jane is a very serious girl and, unlike her younger brother, refuses to believe in stories about Peter Pan and Neverland, referring to them as "childish nonsense", which ultimately leads to a furious argument with her mother and brother one night (after Wendy is informed and tells Jane that she and Danny, along with the other children in London, are being evacuated to the countryside for safekeeping due to the German bombing of the city). Later that night, Peter's arch-nemesis, Captain Hook, sailing through the sky on his pixie-dust enchanted ship, kidnaps Jane, mistaking her for Wendy, then evades an air raid alert and escapes back to Neverland. There, he plans for his crew to feed "Wendy" to an octopus in order to lure Peter into a trap. However, Peter rescues Jane and Hook escapes from the octopus, returning to the ship. After Jane tells Peter she is Wendy's daughter, Peter takes her to his hideout to be the mother of the Lost Boys as Wendy once was, but Jane refuses and gets stranded. The next day as the boys fail to teach Jane about flying, she upsets them and says that she does not believe in fairies, making Tinker Bell sick. This gives Hook an idea to lure Jane to him and then kidnap Peter.

That night, Hook finds Jane and lies to her that he will not harm Peter if she agrees to help him find treasure that the Lost Boys stole. Hook gives Jane a whistle to signal him when she finds it and leaves. Jane asks Peter and the boys to play a game of "treasure hunt", and they teach Jane to act like a Lost Boy, hoping to get her to believe in fairies and save Tinker Bell. As Jane finds the treasure and changes her mind into discarding the whistle, the boys make her the "Lost Girl" before Tootles finds and blows the whistle. As the pirates arrive to capture the boys, Hook reveals Jane was an accomplice. As Jane tries to tell Peter she never agreed to anything, Peter berates her for her treachery and tells her that her disbelief in fairies will cause Tinker Bell's light to go out. Horrified, Jane rushes back to the hideout to find Tinker Bell's body. Jane is distraught, thinking the fairy is dead, but with her new belief, Tinker Bell revives. They head to the ship and see Hook forcing Peter to walk the plank. With Tinker Bell's help, Jane learns to fly. As Peter uses the anchor to sink the ship, the pirates, riding on a rowboat, are pursued by the octopus. After saying goodbye to the boys, Peter escorts Jane back home, where Jane reconciles with Wendy and Danny. Peter and Tinker Bell meet Wendy again, though she is an adult, and they say goodbye. As Edward returns home from the war, Peter and Tinker Bell fly back to Neverland.

• Harriet Owen as Jane, Wendy and Edward's daughter, and Danny's older sister who refuses to believe in stories, but Peter changes her mind.
  • Owen also voiced Young Wendy. Lianne Hughes served as the supervising animator for Jane.
• Blayne Weaver as Peter Pan, the leader of the Lost Boys, and friends of Wendy and Jane. Pieter Lommerse and Andrew Collins served as the supervising animators for Peter Pan.
• Corey Burton as Captain Hook, the captain of the pirates. Bob Baxter served as the supervising animator for Captain Hook.
• Jeff Bennett as Mr. Smee, Hook's first mate and sidekick.
• Kath Soucie as Wendy Darling, Jane and Danny's mother, Michael and John's older sister and Edward's wife. Ryan O'Loughlin served as the supervising animators for Wendy Darling. Kathryn Beaumont, who voiced Wendy in the original, recorded all of her dialogues for the sequel, but Soucie replaced her.[6]
• Andrew McDonough as Daniel, nicknamed Danny, Wendy and Edward's son and Jane's younger brother.
• Roger Rees as Edward, a surviving soldier, Wendy's husband, and Jane and Danny's father.
• The Lost Boys, Peter's best friends:
  • Spencer Breslin as Cubby a lost boy in a bear costume.
  • Bradley Pierce as Nibs a lost boy in a rabbit costume.
  • Quinn Beswick as Slightly a lost boy in a fox costume.
  • Aaron Spann as Twins, the lost boys in a raccoon costume.
  • Tootles, a mute lost boy in a skunk costume.
• Frank Welker as The Octopus
• Additional Voices - Jim Cummings, Rob Paulsen, Dan Castellaneta, Clive Revill, and Wally Wingert

Disney MovieToons/Disney Video Premiere developed the project and then assigned the work for Peter and Jane to Disney Animation Canada. The film was a Peter Pan sequel originally designed as its first theatrical release. In fall 1999, the Canadian unit stopped work on what was then a video release. With Canada's closure, the work on Peter and Jane was instead moved to the Walt Disney Animation Australia and Walt Disney Animation Japan units.[7] Cornerstone Animation was then contracted to do animation direction.[8] The film moved back to a Disney MovieToons theatrical release.[9] There were many changes made for this movie. Due to a legal dispute, the Native-Americans are completely absent in this movie, but it does show their teepees and totem poles in one sequence. Also following these changes, the mermaids are given brassieres since their appearances in its predecessor were considered sexualized.

Joel McNeely composed the music for the film.

Return to Never Land was released on VHS and DVD on August 20, 2002,[17] and it took in only lukewarm sales. In November 2007, the film was released in a "Pixie-Powered Edition" and was also released in a Peter Pan trilogy, along with the Peter Pan Platinum Edition and Tinker Bell in December 2008.

The film was released on Blu-ray in August 2013, after the first Blu-ray release of Peter Pan. It was reprinted on Blu-ray in June 2018 as a Disney Movie Club Exclusive.

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