Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Tockinit not horrible nor great

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

SnoopyStyle Orphan boy Pete has only his giant cartoon dragon friend Elliott who can make himself invisible. He runs away from his foster hillbilly family Gogans who claims to own him. He arrives in the coastal town of Passamaquoddy, Maine. Elliott appears to drunken Lampie (Mickey Rooney). Nobody believes him including his daughter Nora who lives with him in the lighthouse. Nora takes in Pete while Elliott stays in the local caves. Dr. Terminus and his sidekick Hoagy (Red Buttons) come to town peddling their quark cures.There is a charm in 70's kiddie Disney which isn't really classic Disney. They often feel old fashion and childish. There may not be anything groundbreaking but it has an innocence about them like they're too naive to renew the genre. There are no great songs in this but it's nice music. I really love invisible Elliott wrecking havoc on the town. It's all very nice but strictly for a kiddie audience.

Sober-Friend The Disney Studio was in a huge state of "FLUX" when Disney died in the 1960's. The Theme Parks were what kept the company afloat. Well the theme parks and the re-issues of their classic movies. Before the days of Home video Disney would re-issue 2 sometimes 3 animated films a year. Titles that were only released every 5-7 years included "DUMBO" "Snow White" "101 Dalmatians" "Peter Pan" "Bambi" "Pinocchio" & "The Jungle Book". Disney Studio however took a chance in 1977 and made a movie musical when musicals were no longer popular the results were this charming film "Pete's Dragon". In this film "Pete" is an orphan who has just ran away from his adoptive home. He was basically a slave and not treated as a member of his family. He is also comes across as a likable child. What has saved "Pete" was a dragon named "Elliot" that served as his protector and his friend. Many people call this film slow but to me it is far from that. It is not a music video with 10 cuts a minute. It is an enjoyable film. A film that calls for a family viewing experience. Now I saw this film originally in 1977. There is many different running times for this film. For the life of me I can not tell you what was eliminated from the film I saw in 1977. That version ran 131 Minutes. Today The Home video Runs 128 Minutes. What is missing I could not tell you.

joanna-weng I have never forgotten this movie and some song lyrics where always on my mind for over 20 years. I didn't watch it again for a long time, assuming it is a kid movie, until lately, where I discovered that there is also the long 129 minutes version. Surprisingly, I found myself very entertained even as a an adult! Of course one has a different perspective and there where so many jokes and side remarks that I just didn't get as a kid - it was wonderful to "rediscover" this movie. The ocean scenery is beautiful and the songs - they are just great, sometimes funny, sometimes really touching.This movie is so heart warming, well done for its time and brings along many important messages about friendship, love, tolerance, enjoying life together, but also doing the right thing and stand up for what you believe - just like Nora, my favorite character. I found myself in a very good mood the rest of the day, remembering my childhood and humming "Brazzle Dazzle day" ;-) So what is the definition of a good movie ? A movie you can watch as kid or adult discovering different things, a movie with music & lyrics you never forget and have to sing along, a movie that makes you think and appreciate your loved ones, family and friends but also lifts you up and makes you feel happy ? If that's not the definition of a good movie, then I don't know what is. I will watch it again and again.

Foux_du_Fafa By the middle/end of the 1970s, the Disney studio was in crisis. Walt had died relatively recently, and the conservative management who ran the company kept on consciously producing films they thought Walt would have made back in the 50s and 60s. As a result, nearly all of the films being produced, at least the live-action ones, were not just throwbacks; they were generally all quite stale with it. "Pete's Dragon" is one such film. It tries to be the next "Mary Poppins" but genuinely fails. Not only does it not live up to that film's legacy, but it hasn't really got any pizazz of its own.The story concerns a young orphan named Pete who runs away from a cruel family of hillbillies with the help of his pet dragon Eliot. Along the way, Eliot, who can turn himself invisible, gets up to mischief, and hilarity ensues. The pair arrive in a small New England town, where Pete ends up staying with a kindly lighthouse keeper named Nora and her lovable drunken father. In keeping with the spirit of replicating "Mary Poppins", the titular dragon character is animated, and the best moments in the film tend to feature him. He is a cute and well animated creation, even if he doesn't quite fit seamlessly into the live-action world around him. However, the story overall is boring and introduces too many elements at the wrong time, and many scenes fail to move the plot along at all (including a scene where the lighthouse keeper and the evil doctor's assistant go to look for Eliot in the cave). Acting and character development are also consistently below average. The musical numbers tend to be overdone, and some of them are just downright awful. Though I saw the standard version many years ago, the version I last watched was the shortened version on the UK's Channel 5, which did a lot of good by shortening or even removing the most long-winded scenes (primarily the musical numbers), but even that didn't do much to diffuse some of the film's problems.Let me state that I did not want to go out of my way to hate this film. I am a big fan of Disney, and I watched "Pete's Dragon" as a child a few times and I quite liked it (even if not to the same extent as "Mary Poppins" or "Bedknobs and Broomsticks"). However, as an intelligent adult, I can see hardly any worth in this film. It seems overall like a mismanaged and highly amateur attempt to make a "Disney classic" based on the elements of more successful previous films.