{"id":32107,"date":"2016-08-16T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mominthecity.com\/?p=32107"},"modified":"2023-05-11T15:29:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T19:29:17","slug":"petes-dragon-2016-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mominthecity.com\/petes-dragon-2016-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete’s Dragon 2016 is Great (But Very Different from the Original 1977 Film)"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\"Pete's\n

My 9 year-old son Sean and I went to see an advanced screening of Pete\u2019s Dragon<\/em><\/a> 2016 a couple of weeks ago. I loved the 1977 original film as a kid so I didn\u2019t know what to expect. To my pleasant surprise, I ended up equally loving the new version\u2026even though it is very<\/strong><\/span> different from the original.<\/p>\n

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<\/center>While Elliott (the dragon) is animated in the original movie, the 2016 version has a green furry CGI dragon. \u00a0Elliott is a lot more clumsy and a bit of a troublemaker in the original movie. For Pete\u2019s Dragon<\/em> 2016, Elliott is more nurturing and takes really great care of Pete. In both versions, Elliott is protective, helpful and a great friend to Pete.\n

Pete is also very different in the 2016 version. In the 1977 Pete\u2019s Dragon<\/em> DVD<\/a>, Pete is an orphan who escapes from living with an awful foster family. Pete\u2019s Dragon<\/em> 2016 starts off with young Pete on a family adventure with his loving mom and dad. A car accident leaves him an orphan. After saving young Pete from wild animals, Elliott takes care of Pete for six years in the forest until Pete is discovered by people from the local town.<\/p>\n

Watching Pete\u2019s Dragon<\/em> 2016 is more of an emotional experience than watching the original movie. Oakes Fegley, the young actor who plays the role of Pete, does an exceptional job. His howls during his separation from Elliott brought tears to my eyes. The bond was more than the friendship of the original movie. Pete and Elliott are more like family in the 2016 version.<\/p>\n

I think that there is something for practically everyone to love in the 2016 version of Pete\u2019s Dragon<\/em>. There are themes of friendship, family, sacrificial love and faith\/believing in the unseen. \u00a0(Although the romantic love story between Nora and Paul and the \u201cCandle on the Water\u201d song \u00a0in the original don\u2019t fit in the new version, other variations of love are well represented.) I highly recommend Pete\u2019s Dragon<\/em> 2016, which opened in theaters on August 12th, for families.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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