Pete's Dragon

2016 "Some secrets are too big to keep."
6.7| 1h43m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 12 August 2016 Released
Producted By: Whitaker Entertainment
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
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Official Website: http://movies.disney.com/petes-dragon-2016
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For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace, who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales... until she meets Pete, a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliott. And from Pete's descriptions, Elliott seems remarkably similar to the dragon from Mr. Meacham's stories. With the help of Natalie, an 11-year-old girl whose father Jack owns the local lumber mill, Grace sets out to determine where Pete came from, where he belongs, and the truth about this dragon.

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cinephile-27690 My sister and me saw a TV aired version of the original and we saw it so many times that I only mildly liked this version. The 2 movies are very different from each other as well. In fact, the part I liked best was Robert Redford taking Mickey Rooney's original role. So, in short, this is good but the original is way better.
derek-453-410928 A story about a lost orphaned boy who befriends a magical dragon. But really it's a story about loneliness. The rest of civilisation, who find the boy six years later, think the boy is lonely, missing his family, but he's made a family with the dragon, whom he calls Elliot. But Elliot needs Pete just as much as Pete needs Elliot, both were orphaned and lonely, and need each other to survive. But the dragon was the loneliest of all the characters because it had never met another of its species.Unfortunately some thought the dragon was a monster, that needed to tamed, captured and exploited, when in reality the dragon was a rare endangered species that needed protecting and preserving, and to with its own kind.A wonderful children's story and definitely worth watching as a film.
marieltrokan The disappointment of a beauty, is a happiness of a tragedy. A happy tragedy is a happiness that creates an impure tragedy and it's a tragedy that creates an impure happiness.An impure tragedy, is a tragic tragedy. An impure happiness is a tragic happiness - a tragic happiness creates a tragic happiness and it creates a tragic tragedy.A tragic tragedy is a happy tragedy that can't be defeated. A tragic happiness creates a happy tragedy that can be defeated and a happy tragedy that can't be defeated. A happy tragedy is a force of nature that means that the ability to overcome and the inability to overcome are indistinct from each other: the need to overcome can be the need to respect, and the need to respect can be the need to overcome.Respecting an adversary is intelligence. Looking past nostalgia is intelligence: the problem with Pete's Dragon, is that the movie's nature makes the intelligence of respecting an adversary and the intelligence of looking past nostalgia into sources of antagonism.Pete's Dragon makes evolution into a genuine roadblock
tomgillespie2002 As Disney wade through their back catalogue of animated classics to introduce to modern audiences, the wealth of pure quality at their disposal borders on the embarrassing. By the end of 2016, favourites such as Maleficent (a spin on Sleeping Beauty), Cinderella and The Jungle Book had already been and gone, to varying degrees of success. Next on the agenda, much to many people's surprise, was Pete's Dragon, a live-action remake of a pretty crappy mixture of animation and live-action from 1977, a film many won't have even heard of, and the few who have actually seen it will have long forgotten. The choice for the director's chair was also curious: The job fell to indie director David Lowery, who up to this point was known only for his little- seen outlaw movie Ain't Them Bodies Saints. It seemed as though Disney were taking a "may as well get it over with" attitude towards re- imagining one of their more obscure works, but 2016's Pete's Dragon is actually the best and loveliest of their recent crop.It's the 70's, a five year-old Pete is heading on a road trip with his parents in search of adventure. The plan is turned on its head (much like their vehicle) when a deer runs out into the road, causing them to crash and killing Pete's parents in the process. Within moments of fleeing the wreckage and making it in the woods, Pete finds himself confronted by a giant dragon. Five years later, and Pete (now played by Oakes Fegley) has forged a bond with the dragon, who he names Elliot, and has turned feral in the forest. Their home is shrinking every day, thanks to a lumberjack crew ran by Jack (Wes Bentley) and his brother Gavin (Karl Urban), so it isn't long until their discovered. Luckily for them, Pete is seen by good-hearted park ranger Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard), whose father (played by Robert Redford), tells stories of the day he encountered a huge green dragon in his youth. As Pete longs to go home while also warming to his new surrogate family, Elliot misses his friend, and finds himself hunted by prize-seeker Gavin. This is a tried-and-tested Disney formula, so expect few surprises here. What is most surprising, and utterly charming, is the way Lowery goes about his business. There is plenty of genuine heart and care taken with developing its characters. Even the 'villain' of the piece shows genuine concern for Pete's well-being when he is discovered ragged and howling, and Jack isn't the cold habitat- slayer you would expect. Although there is an impressive CGI dragon complete with tail-chasing and a cute wet nose, the story stays remarkably low- key, comparable in many ways to Steven Spielberg's E.T. before the government goons enter the story. If there's a major criticism to be, it is that Gavin's sudden ambition to slay the dragon comes out of nowhere, and seems included simply to create a foe for Elliot while Pete is off in society. For a film that handles the human drama so well, it simply isn't needed, although it sets up a climax exciting enough to slightly make up for it. If you haven't seen the original, then save yourself the trouble, as 2016's Pete's Dragon is a rare example of a remake that leaves the original well in its wake.