A Mashup of Pete's Dragon, Tarzan Jungle Man, George of the Jungle, and The Jungle Book! Pete, Tarzan, George, and Mowgli, ...

Experiencing “Pete’s Dragon” is like seeing something thought to be extinct, a creation every bit as magical and mythical as the flying, fire-breathing beast it’s named after. That would ...

Now, Snow White underperforming is quite a rare phenomenon for the Disney live-action remakes. Lilo and Stitch has made a ...

Disney's remake of the original "Pete's Dragon," a cheerily cheesy mix of live action and hand-drawn animation centering on the friendship between an orphaned boy and a cartoon dragon, is ...

So what happens when Disney revives one of their more lackluster works? The 1977 PETE’S DRAGON has never been considered a Disney standard and hasn’t aged well, but it still endures as a nostalgic ...

There’s a boy named Pete. He has a dragon. And that’s pretty much where the similarities between this weekend’s “Pete’s Dragon” and the 1977 original begin and end. That’s likely for ...

Pete’s Dragon’’ is a warm cup of cocoa and a hug from Robert Redford at the end of the summer. It plays like a lost movie from Carroll Ballard (“The Black Stallion,” “Duma”) that ...

Melding the two makes “Pete’s Dragon,” a cinematic enchantment, a low-key 1970s-style kids’ movie brimming with sincerity and heart. It’s one of the best films of the year.

Watch a film clip from "Pete's Dragon," starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, Oakes Fegley. Photo: Walt Disney Pictures The clearest difference between Disney’s remake of “Pete’s ...

Anyone who treasures the creative enterprise should be repulsed by the endless recycling – and, in principle, I am – but then something like Pete’s Dragon always seems to come ambling out of ...

Pete's Dragon is a remake in all the right ways, taking cues from the original but reimagining the story for a very different audience living in a very different era. A film for children that isn ...