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Overall Rank: 4870

Average Rating: 2.7/4

# of Ratings: 22

Theatrical Release Date: 08/12/2016

Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 11/29/2016

Language: English

Genre: Family

MPAA Rating: PG

Director: David Lowery

Actors: Karl Urban, Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, Wes Bentley, Oakes Fegley, Oona Laurence

Plot: A park ranger who grew up hearing tall tales from an old wood carver of a dragon who lives in the forest finds the stories may have a truth, at least to Pete, a young orphan who lives in the forest and claims his best friend, Elliott, is the dragon in question, even if Pete is the only one who can see him. -- Chris Kavan

Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 06/17/2019

The new "Pete's Dragon" tries to explore too many ideas, including environmentalism, faith, family, and friendship, none of which help bring attention to the mythical creature in the movie's title.

ikkegoemikke
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Mission accomplished Disney

ikkegoemikke - wrote on 07/22/2017

"You know, when I was a little girl…I wanted to live in the forest more than anything. I love being out there. It was so fun, with the squirrels and the birds and the trees… So, when I grew up, I made it my job to protect the woods, and everything in them. Which I supposed includes you."

I've just written down my opinion about "Beauty and the beast" and I realized that I've been watching "Pete's dragon" a couple of times already, along with my 7 year old daughter, without telling anything about it. Some catching up to do I guess. Let me just pull a short and powerful piece of opinion out of the hat. As I mentioned before, I always appreciate a live-action rendition of a Disney cartoon. Now, the 1977 version was actually already a sort of a mixture of an ordinary movie and pieces …

Indyfreak
Movie God

Watch the original instead. Skip this.

Indyfreak - wrote on 02/15/2017

Disney has decided to remake a lot of their older movies. As a business, it's to make a quick buck. I understand that. Sometimes they make a good movie like Cinderella or a great movie like The Jungle Book. Sometimes they make not merely a bad movie but a boring one as well. The 2016 remake of PETE'S DRAGON is that movie.
Some might say the original 1977 film was bad in of itself. It's true that it hasn't aged well but it has a ktischy campiness that's enjoyable and its sincerity was endearing. I admit I have a soft spot for it.
The remake on the other hand aims for a modernization of the story which makes it little more than a low rent remake of not the original but rather ET: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL. And a cheap looking one at that. Shot in what looks like the same town as the …