Unlike previous villain sidekicks, the filmmakers felt that Smee was the first sidekick to have a truly memorable part in the story. Animator Ollie Johnston was given the job to animate.
Johnston once noted that Smee was one of his favorite characters to animate, as he wasn't just the villain's lackey, but a fully realized personality of his own in the story.
“Smee has that bumbling way about him.
He's always trying to keep up and wants to try to make everybody happy—like the Mom who wants everybody to stop fighting and be friends and make nice and for the world to be every color of the rainbow.
But every once in a while, you'll hear—and I try not to do it too often—that little edge of "Boy, this job is really hard and I am a little tired of it."”
Smee has true affection for Captain Hook.
He acts like a protector for Hook. He sees the good in him even though he knows what he does is bad.
He feeds him, he shaves him the two are clearly intimate.
This could be seen as love.
Mr Smee is truly in love with Captain Hook.
He doesn’t judge Smee for being in love with him, he uses him but he uses everyone that’s just his sick personality.
Gay pirates are not a new thing.
There were hundreds of gay pirates out there they even had a form of union akin to a gay wedding.
They would sleep with each other and openly embrace and explore their sexuality.
That’s why Hook doesn’t care if Smee is gay it’s common place in the Pirate world.
All pirates are outcasts.
Hook saw Smee was an outcast too and so that’s why he is on that ship.
It’s a sad world when your only truly non judgmental allies are pirates.
Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated adventure fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and based on the 1904 play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by J. M. Barrie.