I hold Pocahontas in high esteem. It's a wonderful movie with a fascinating story, awesome animation (just look at what Glen Keane did with Pocahontas! ^_^), great characterization, nice voice work and awesome music (Menken rocks my socks, and Schwartz's lyrics are awesome). Sure, it has some flaws, and the theatrical release sadly cut out the heartwarming "If I Never Knew You" (I think the movie is crippled without that song because it's so pivotal to Pocahontas's and Smith's character arcs), but thankfully that song and its bittersweet reprise were added to the film later on. I just hope that once it's released on Blu-ray in a fancy edition (hopefully... *knocks on wood*), the Finnish dub will finally include the scene because I really want to hear a Finnish version of that lovely song.

The sequel is a mixed bag. On the one hand I enjoyed some parts of it (Pocahontas's struggle between her love for Smith and Rolfe, the "fish out of water" scenario when she goes to London, Ratcliffe's greater villainous role and his domination through most of the movie) but on the other hand some parts had lackluster animation, and some questionable story choices. However, it did give us the lovely "Where Do I Go from Here" song, so it's not a total loss. In general even Disney's worst animated DTV sequels had at least interesting songs, and Pocahontas II is no exception to that rule.