Pete's Dragon

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George L Jan 14, 2019 Don Chaffey attempts to recapture the success of some Disney cartoon-live action hybrids, but without succeeding after performing a cornily-boring and overly cheesy musical without any charm, non-catchy songs and obnoxious characters that never quite connect, this bizarre flick falls by never live up to its concept, although its animation and design might outstand on their own, they're enough to keep this film for being oddly flawed. See more

Ron P Oct 7, 2018 One of my childhood favorites ????

Theodore M Jun 29, 2018 One of my favorite musicals of all time. Has great catchy songs, really likable characters, and a very fun adventure. Love this movie so much. See more

Ron S May 22, 2018 Was habe ich den Film als Kind geliebt. Eine Drache, der fliegen kann und unsichtbar werden kann. Welche kleine Junge wünscht sich das nicht? Da spielt es für den jungen Zuschauer auch keine Rolle, dass die Story altbacken und langweilig und die Musik grauenhaft ist? Einen zweiten Stern gab es für den Nostalgiebonus. See more

Hagrid R Feb 20, 2018 all time favorite movie prior to greatest showman

Rey G Dec 24, 2017 Full disclosure. I likely have a skewed perspective on this film because as a child I saw this in the theater and owned a storybook record version that I obsessively listened to, so even though it's probably been about 30 years since I last saw this film, it felt very familiar. Set in Disney's familiar "Pollyanna" turn-of-the-century setting, Pete is a redheaded orphan who escapes an evil hillbilly family, the Gogans, who keep Pete as a slave, and is taken in by kindly lighthouse keeper Helen Ready. Pete also has an invisible dragon friend that only he can see, which leads to lots of unfunny comic situations that are mostly frustrating since Pete continues to gets in trouble because of his dragon's mischief who won't reveal himself. The main conflict in the story is that the Gogans want Pete back and team up with a medicine show huckster who wants Pete's dragon to make medicines out of. It's a boring story, it's not very funny, and outside of Ready, all of the performances are painfully overacted. However, in the plus column for the film, it does feature some catchy songs (which may not be catchy for others, but are for me because they are burned into my brain after listening to them hundreds to times on my record player as a child), and the animated dragon was done my famed Disney animator Don Bluth before he went off on his own to make "The Secret of NIHM" and "An American Tail." Overall, kids will probably enjoy this film, but adults will find it mostly annoying. Also, this was the original full 134-minute version of the film, not the re-cut version. See more

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