The good ol' mythical beast and a boy story, except mythical beast is boring, the boy is boring and literally nothing happens through out the movie.For a movie that starts off with "What does adventure mean?" there's very little adventure. It feels like a satire with neverending queue of "ave" and "inspiration" moments.What a waste, how do you even make movie with dragons in it so boring?

The disappointment of a beauty, is a happiness of a tragedy. A happy tragedy is a happiness that creates an impure tragedy and it's a tragedy that creates an impure happiness.An impure tragedy, is a tragic tragedy. An impure happiness is a tragic happiness - a tragic happiness creates a tragic happiness and it creates a tragic tragedy.A tragic tragedy is a happy tragedy that can't be defeated. A tragic happiness creates a happy tragedy that can be defeated and a happy tragedy that can't be defeated. A happy tragedy is a force of nature that means that the ability to overcome and the inability to overcome are indistinct from each other: the need to overcome can be the need to respect, and the need to respect can be the need to overcome.Respecting an adversary is intelligence. Looking past nostalgia is intelligence: the problem with Pete's Dragon, is that the movie's nature makes the intelligence of respecting an adversary and the intelligence of looking past nostalgia into sources of antagonism.Pete's Dragon makes evolution into a genuine roadblock

As Disney wade through their back catalogue of animated classics to introduce to modern audiences, the wealth of pure quality at their disposal borders on the embarrassing. By the end of 2016, favourites such as Maleficent (a spin on Sleeping Beauty), Cinderella and The Jungle Book had already been and gone, to varying degrees of success. Next on the agenda, much to many people's surprise, was Pete's Dragon, a live-action remake of a pretty crappy mixture of animation and live-action from 1977, a film many won't have even heard of, and the few who have actually seen it will have long forgotten. The choice for the director's chair was also curious: The job fell to indie director David Lowery, who up to this point was known only for his little- seen outlaw movie Ain't Them Bodies Saints. It seemed as though Disney were taking a "may as well get it over with" attitude towards re- imagining one of their more obscure works, but 2016's Pete's Dragon is actually the best and loveliest of their recent crop.It's the 70's, a five year-old Pete is heading on a road trip with his parents in search of adventure. The plan is turned on its head (much like their vehicle) when a deer runs out into the road, causing them to crash and killing Pete's parents in the process. Within moments of fleeing the wreckage and making it in the woods, Pete finds himself confronted by a giant dragon. Five years later, and Pete (now played by Oakes Fegley) has forged a bond with the dragon, who he names Elliot, and has turned feral in the forest. Their home is shrinking every day, thanks to a lumberjack crew ran by Jack (Wes Bentley) and his brother Gavin (Karl Urban), so it isn't long until their discovered. Luckily for them, Pete is seen by good-hearted park ranger Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard), whose father (played by Robert Redford), tells stories of the day he encountered a huge green dragon in his youth. As Pete longs to go home while also warming to his new surrogate family, Elliot misses his friend, and finds himself hunted by prize-seeker Gavin. This is a tried-and-tested Disney formula, so expect few surprises here. What is most surprising, and utterly charming, is the way Lowery goes about his business. There is plenty of genuine heart and care taken with developing its characters. Even the 'villain' of the piece shows genuine concern for Pete's well-being when he is discovered ragged and howling, and Jack isn't the cold habitat- slayer you would expect. Although there is an impressive CGI dragon complete with tail-chasing and a cute wet nose, the story stays remarkably low- key, comparable in many ways to Steven Spielberg's E.T. before the government goons enter the story. If there's a major criticism to be, it is that Gavin's sudden ambition to slay the dragon comes out of nowhere, and seems included simply to create a foe for Elliot while Pete is off in society. For a film that handles the human drama so well, it simply isn't needed, although it sets up a climax exciting enough to slightly make up for it. If you haven't seen the original, then save yourself the trouble, as 2016's Pete's Dragon is a rare example of a remake that leaves the original well in its wake.

I liked this movie, but not as much as I wanted to...Elliot is a CGI beauty, no doubt about it. The green dragon is perfectly incorporated in the film and it doesn't feel like Oakes Fegley is acting in front of a green screen instead. It's hard not to be convinced by it and that helps when at the end, they give us all the usual dramatic showdown because I genuinely cared about Elliot.And that's the main problem with this adaptation: there's so little Elliot. I mean, the movie's called Pete's Dragon, so one instantly assumes that this is a story about Pete and his dragon. The truth isn't quite that, since there are a lot of supporting characters that act like they're the protagonists. Jack (Wes Bentley) doesn't have a single bonding scene with Pete, Karl Urban as Gavin is intended to be the unnecessary "villain", Natalie (Oona Laurence) has a lot of screen time as well as Grace, and Meacham (Robert Redford) is just the old man who once saw a dragon ...  A whole bunch of scenes is spent with these and more characters, which proves that the film really struggles to find someone for the audience to identify themselves with.Even the kid is not as compelling and captivating as he should be. Oakes Fegley is fine, but he should have been a lot better (he doesn't get close to Mowgli, in The Jungle Book, for example). There's a gap between the moment where Pete leaves the dragon for a while and from the moment where they get back together: that gap takes forever to close and it definitely brings the movie down.It might feel like I disliked this movie, but don't be mistaken. This IS a GOOD movie, but it could've been great. Elliot is a wonderful CGI creation, the film is beautiful to look at, Pete and Grace's family scenes are really heartfelt and it does bring you the "feels" by the end, if you know what I mean.MSB Reviews - If you like my reviews, please follow my blog :)