After surviving from a fatal accident that leads his father to death and leaves him alone in a mysterious wood, where he has been attacked by wolves, but he is rescued by a kind dragon that befriends him Elliot, that helps him to survive in such a great place, till he manages to return to his own land.
... the CGI creation has the weight and presence and personality of a living creature in a film that is deeper, richer, and more joyous [than the original].
Perhaps it's me, but given the choice between living with Wes 'weird kid from "American Beauty"' Bentley and Bryce 'Jurassic Woe' Dallas Howard and a dragon; I chose the dragon.
Pete's Dragon is yet another of the recent Disney live-action remakes that elevates the source material and expands the world it was born from for the better.
After half an hour or so of ... stutter steps, Pete's Dragon starts working on you, much like those gold standards of the boy-and-his-otherworldly-friend genre, E.T. and The Iron Giant.
Pete's Dragon is a gentle, understated family adventure, one that feels notably unlike the simplistically sentimental product the Disney imprimatur might lead you to expect.
Pete's Dragon is one of those movies that talks a lot about magic-Robert Redford, the grandfatherly narrator whose "by and by" bookends the film, says the word at least seven times-rather than effectively presenting it on screen.
