Hook earned five Academy Award nominations, but did modestly at the box office and had mixed reviews upon opening (via Screen Rant). Variety called the movie "messy and undisciplined." Spielberg himself later reflected that he was disappointed in much of the final product. He told Entertainment Weekly, "I'm really proud of my work right up through Peter being hauled off in the parachute out the window, heading for Neverland. I'm a little less proud of the Neverland sequences, because I'm uncomfortable with that highly stylized world that today, of course, I would probably have done with live-action character work inside a completely digital set."
Fans reacted much more positively to the movie, and it has since gained a cult following. When it dropped on Netflix in January, viewers took to social media to share their reactions. One person tweeted, "Just re-watched recently and I was instantly transported to the memory banks of seeing it in theaters and all the joy and sorrow and laughter that the movie puts me through. Love it forever."
Another wrote, "No movie since has ever held such a genuinely engrossing magical quality like the movie Hook had."
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