Pete's Dragon
1977 Directed by Don Chaffey
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Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend--a lovable, sometimes invisible dragon named Elliott! When they are taken in by a kind lighthouse keeper, Nora (Helen Reddy), and her father (Mickey Rooney), Elliott's prank playing lands them in big trouble. Then, when crooked salesmen try to capture Elliott for their own gain, Pete must attempt a daring rescue.
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I have watched this movie every day for the last two weeks. Sometimes twice. I don't know if it's a good movie. I don't know if it's a bad movie. It has Mickey Rooney. It has Red Buttons. It has Jim Backus. Charley Callas makes a bunch of sounds. There are songs. One of them won the Oscar, so Helen Reddy has that in common with Three Six Mafia and Adele. I don't know where I am anymore.
Oh, Four Stars, because Shelley Winters falls in what are clearly feces more than once. In the movie.
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Wow. Sometimes it's best to not spoil childhood memories.
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Oh my goodness, I've seen this so often when I was little! I loved it so much. And I loved Elliott so much! I always wanted him as a friend (and I was very disappointed when I found out that he doesn't exist). And I remember the german titel, which is very funny "Elliott, das Schmunzelmonster", which means "Elliott, the Chucklemonster" :)
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Pete’s Dragon follows in the line of all the other family friendly musicals Disney has put out over the decades. As the title indicates, it follows a runaway orphan named Pete and his best friend, a playful and loyal dragon named Elliot who has the ability to turn invisible at will, and their misadventures in a sleepy coastal village called Passamaquoddy.
Nostalgia can be a funny thing, especially pertaining to the memories of one’s own childhood. I have to freely admit at the start that Pete’s Dragon resides fondly within my personal memory banks, due to the fact that my mother took me to see it on its opening day, which not so coincidentally, was my seventh birthday. The last…
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One of my favorite kids film and a very important film from my childhood. It made me appreciate animation and film together. This led to other films like Roger Rabbit, but this one is a musical. The dragon does not talk, but you know what he is saying. It makes us all want an imaginary dragon for a friend. Which leads me to my final thought, why are imaginary dragons only befriended by young people? I want one, you want one and we all need one.
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Oh my goodness, I've seen this so often when I was little! I loved it so much. And I loved Elliott so much! I always wanted him as a friend (and I was very disappointed when I found out that he doesn't exist). And I remember the german titel, which is very funny "Elliott, das Schmunzelmonster", which means "Elliott, the Chucklemonster" :)
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Wow. Sometimes it's best to not spoil childhood memories.
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This was the first time that I have really sat down and watched Pete's Dragon. The length was my only complaint about the movie. It clocks in at 2 hours and 8 minutes which is about 20 to 30 minutes to long. I absolutely loved the opening scene/song with the hillbilly family. The song is catchy and has stuck in my head about the last few days. When Elliot (Pete's Dragon) shows up I was floored by how well he fits in to the live action. There are a few scenes where the animation didn't line up exactly with the live action, but most of the movie I was trying to figure out how they made the merge so seamless. This movie is from 40 years ago and the animation looks and works better than some of the CG you see now a days. Overall I was pleasantly pleased with this movie and it is a pretty solid Disney movie.
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Pete's Dragon is the type of film that needs to be seen at the right age. For older kids I could see this being a bit tedious at the over two hour running time but when I was a kid this was a regular staple in my household. I saw Pete's dragon over and over again and never grew weary of it. I have a three year old daughter and when I saw the blu ray on a good sale I immediately picked it up due to my belief that she would thoroughly enjoy it and a nostalgic need to revisit a film from my childhood that I hadn't seen in years. My daughter loves the movie and has watched…
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Brings back some really great childhood memories. I was scared to re-watch it in case it didn't hold up, but I had so much fun watching it. Pizza dragon!
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I have watched this movie every day for the last two weeks. Sometimes twice. I don't know if it's a good movie. I don't know if it's a bad movie. It has Mickey Rooney. It has Red Buttons. It has Jim Backus. Charley Callas makes a bunch of sounds. There are songs. One of them won the Oscar, so Helen Reddy has that in common with Three Six Mafia and Adele. I don't know where I am anymore.
Oh, Four Stars, because Shelley Winters falls in what are clearly feces more than once. In the movie.
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Loved it as a kid and still love it, but now for some different reasons. What remains intact is my love of the music. Excellent songs and some great character actor performances.
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I loved this movie as a kid and I still do!
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Pete's Dragon is a movie I want to like a lot more than I do. Conceptually the New England setting mixed with a dragon is awesome and a lot of fun to watch, but the movie just gets dragged down in stuff that's not very interesting. For a movie that ostensibly has a dragon in it this is a huge problem.
Part of the problem is this is a musical that isn't very good. I enjoy a good musical number, but these aren't always that catchy and rather than bolstering the storytelling, they seem to continually drag it to a halt.
It all adds up to a film that has a great premise and a few awesome moments that is…