wraptile The good ol' mythical beast and a boy story, except mythical beast is boring, the boy is boring and literally nothing happens through out the movie.For a movie that starts off with "What does adventure mean?" there's very little adventure. It feels like a satire with neverending queue of "ave" and "inspiration" moments.What a waste, how do you even make movie with dragons in it so boring?

jessebesse It had an orphan named Pete and a dragon named Elliot and nothing else. This isn't a remake it's a new movie that copied a story about an orphan named Pete and his dragon. The pretentious Hollywood writers (who must be to young to know we didn't wear seat belts in 1983, or that if air breaks lose pressure they actually set) should've changed Pete and Elliott's name and called this movie something else. The original, that had to use a drawn in dragon, stomped all over this movie. What a disappointment.

HotToastyRag While the opening scene of Pete's Dragon might seem a little kid-unfriendly, you can rest assured that nothing bad is going to happen to the title character. A little boy is seen in a car with his parents, driving down a deserted road in a forest. In a terrible car accident, the boy's parents are killed, and the boy is rescued by a dragon.Six years later, the boy is still living in the forest with his dragon, happy and healthy. But, as always happens in movies, when someone leaves their cozy surroundings and enter the real world, trouble ensues. Oakes Fegley plays Pete, and he gives a terribly heartbreaking performance. I always marvel at little children who can act in front of the camera.While the majority of people who are going to want to see this movie are those who grew up with and enjoyed the 1972 original, I watched it for Robert Redford. Bryce Dallas Howard plays a forest ranger, and Redford plays her father. Most of the grown-ups in the movie don't believe the boy when he claims to have been raised by a dragon, but Robert Redford does. Of course he does; he's Robert Redford! There are some exciting moments, some moments that probably are a little upsetting for kids, and some beautiful surroundings—it was filmed in New Zealand. But, all in all, it's not my favorite kiddy movie, and it's not one I'll probably want to rent again.

dissident320 With a heartbreaking intro, this movie begins strong both visually and thematically. There is some heart to a story of an orphan and his dragon but a lot of the 'plotty' things really get in the way. You can probably guess this isn't a story about how Pete lived in the woods with a dragon and no one bothered them, the end.There are some nice visuals here and there but I found the parts in the woods to look really drab and colour graded to an ugly green. Elliot the dragon looked pretty good and they managed more emotion in his face than Okja.The bad guy part of the story doesn't even try to give him motivations. He's just there because he wants to capture a dragon and act mad/scared all the time.Overall nothing awful here but also nothing to make it stand out as a compelling kid's movie.