Just like The BFG (2016)
never got enough wind beneath its wings to make it count for Disney as another
2016 movie that would break the bank, Pete’s Dragon suffered the same
fate but performed better at the box office.
I have to say I really enjoyed Pete’s Dragon, and the whole story didn’t
hide behind the idea of a child struggling to make people believe, which was
what I thought the movie was going to be about.
I watched this
movie without any idea of what it was about—just seeing the preview on cable TV
was enough to get me to see it. Even then, I expected the movie to play with
your mind, making you wonder if Pete was really seeing a dragon or not. The
movie didn’t go down that path. It started with how Pete met his best friend, a
dragon he named Elliot, and how that friendship brought a whole town to witness
a story that had been classified as a myth.
Concerning the
CGI and the acting of the people on board this movie, I’ll say the characters
Pete (Oakes Fegley), the CGI Elliot, and Gavin (Karl Urban) stole the show from
the rest.
These three seemed to be in control of the movie’s pace and the happenings,
with others who were meant to have major roles just falling behind.
The CGI of Elliot the dragon is one to admire—it was well done.
Unlike the
previous Disney Pete’s Dragon (1977), which was a musical
live-action animated film, this movie had its own distinctive and different
storyline compared to the original. This 2016 version removed the unnecessary,
like Pete’s backstory being that he ran away from his cruel foster parents after
becoming an orphan. Here, after the death of his parents in a car accident, he
went into the woods where he met Elliot. They also removed the idea that Elliot
could talk back to Pete verbally and made their communication more telepathic.
In this version
of Pete’s Dragon, Pete one day wandered far from Elliot and met a girl.
With this girl was Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard), a forest ranger, along with
Gavin, Grace’s future brother-in-law. It was Gavin who caught Pete and, in the
struggle, hurt him, which woke Elliot from his nap.
Pete was rushed
to the hospital while Gavin went hunting in the woods because he heard a
howling that was different. He and his hunting buddies stumbled upon Elliot and
Pete’s home, which caused Elliot the dragon to attack.
Gavin escaped
with his friends and rallied more people to go dragon hunting. While this was
happening, Pete was living with Grace, begging to go back to the forest to be
with his friend.
Everything soon led to the capture of Elliot and Pete’s desire to get him free
again.
A good movie to see with your family.
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