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Pete's Dragon [2016] (2 discs) ... |  | |
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Length: | 103 minutes (1 hour 43 minutes) | MPAA Rating: | PG | Sorting Category: | Family | Sorting Tub: | Echo |
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| Classifications: | - Fantasy
- Kids
- Drama
- CG
- Family
- Action
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Synopsis: The adventures of an orphaned boy named Pete and his best friend Elliot, who just so happens to be a dragon.
Reaction: Charming. Quite different from the 1977 original, but still enjoyable.
Personal Rating: 7/10 |
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Random Trivia For This Title: - World renown violinist, singer, composer, dancer, and performance artist Lindsey StirlingLindsey Stirling marks her film debut as one of the film's composers.
- This film is rated PG but the original Pete's Dragon is rated G.
- Features four actors that have been in Marvel Comics movies. The first being Karl UrbanKarl Urban as Skurge in Thor: Ragnarok. The second Wes BentleyWes Bentley as Blackheart in Ghost Rider. The third is Robert RedfordRobert Redford as Alexander Pierce in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The fourth Bryce Dallas HowardBryce Dallas Howard as Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man 3.
- Director David LoweryDavid Lowery is married to Augustine FrizzellAugustine Frizzell, who plays Mrs. Swanberg in this film. This is their second collaboration on a feature film.
- The kids listen to vinyl records, and the nurses are wearing old-fashioned white nurse caps. These along with the cars and no cell phones indicates this is not set in twenty-first century.
- Pete spends about 85% of the movie barefoot, both in town and in the woods.
- Karl UrbanKarl Urban replaced [?] Michael C. Hall as Gavin, while Wes BentleyWes Bentley replaced Casey AffleckCasey Affleck as Jack.
- Levi AlexanderLevi Alexander, who plays Young Pete in the prologue, and Gareth ReevesGareth Reeves, who plays his father, are actually related. They are first cousins, once removed.
- Robert RedfordRobert Redford rescued an abandoned horse on the second day of shooting.
- Director David LoweryDavid Lowery explained why Elliott is a furry dragon in an IGN article, saying that he'd rather have "the kind of dragon you really want to give a hug to" than a [Game of Thrones] type dragon, which he described as "cool, but scaly and cold".
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