![]() A deer sprints out, and, in poetic slow-motion, the gravity of the car’s interior is upended. ![]() Pete’s family is driving through a remote Pacific Northwest forest with Pete nestled in the backseat of the station wagon. The film begins, in the “Bambi” tradition, in parental tragedy. But his “Pete’s Dragon” still maintains the homespun feel of an American fable. As part of Disney’s continuing effort to remake its animated classics in live-action, “Pete’s Dragon” has been confidently reborn as an earnest tale of green-winged wonder.ĭavid Lowery, a veteran of the independent film world and director of the lyrical crime drama “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints,” inherits a far bigger film. Where other summer movies are chest-thumping, it’s quiet where others are brashly cynical, it’s sweetly sincere where others are lacking in giant cuddly dragons, “Pete’s Dragon” has one.įew may remember the 1977 Disney original, in which a young boy’s best friend was a bubbly dragon invisible to others. ![]() After an exhausting summer buffet of set pieces, superheroes and whatever s-word you might use for “Suicide Squad,” the gentle “Pete’s Dragon” is a welcome palate cleanser.
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