Pete's Dragon DVD Release Date
The movie Pete's Dragon is already released on DVD in the USA and UK.
A young orphan seeks refuge from his abusive adoptive parents with the help of a pet dragon and a couple who live in a lighthouse.
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Based on 21 Pete's Dragon DVD reviews, Pete's Dragon gets an average DVD review score of 72. The score for all versions is 72 based on a total of 84 reviews.
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variety.comDVD
'Ain't Them Bodies Saints' director David Lowery puts a totally new spin on the Disney classic, inviting audiences to believe in a boy and his pet dragon.
2698d ago3.5/4
nypost.comDVD
‘Pete’s Dragon’ is surprisingly one of the year’s best movies.
2698d ago3.5/4
www.chicagotribune.comDVD
Disney remake one of the most heartening surprises of the year.
2698d ago3.5/4
www.rogerebert.comDVD
There was something about "Pete's Dragon," a quality I couldn't identify at first, something that made it feel different from almost every other big summer movie, and its presen...
2698d agoB+/A+
thefilmstage.comDVD
By simply utilizing the basic set-up of a lesser original feature and giving its director the freedom to infuse his own distinct sensibilities, Pete’s Dragon sets an ideal stand...
2698d agoB+/A+
theplaylist.netDVD
Thankfully, however, “Pete’s Dragon” is much more often technically smart and emotionally intelligent, with this endearing bauble of a film containing a big beating heart inside.
2698d ago85/100
www.thewrap.comDVD
Writer-director David Lowery (“Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”) jumps from indie to Disney with a family winner featuring an endearingly terrific dog-like dragon.
2698d agoB+/A+
www.ew.comDVD
If your kids can get through the first five minutes of Pete’s Dragon (which rank right up there with the shooting of Bambi’s mother on the Disney trauma-o-meter), then you won’t...
2698d agoB+/A+
www.avclub.comDVD
Pete’s Dragon breathes poetic life into a forgotten Disney dud.
2698d ago80/100
www.villagevoice.comDVD
Pete's Dragon is as cuddly as the mountains of plush toys Disney hopes to sell from it.
2698d ago75/100
www.usatoday.comDVD
In an era when most everything gets rebooted regularly, it’s almost shocking that there hasn’t been a Pete’s Dragon reimagining before now, since the 1977 original is a happy-go...
2698d ago75/100
www.seattletimes.comDVD
For me, a grown-up spoiled by Pixar, Pete’s Dragon seemed sweet but slow and a little bland. My guests, entranced by the friendly dragon and the film’s 3D depictions of flight, ...
2698d ago3/4
www.rollingstone.comDVD
Disney goes the earnest route with spruced-up tale of a boy and his dragon, and hits paydirt.
2698d ago3.5/5
www.austinchronicle.comDVD
Yes, this is a children’s movie with messages about everybody being right where they belong. Yet that contentment is a hard-won knowledge, one that does not come without certain...
2698d ago70/100
www.wsj.comDVD
Mr. Lowery is very good with actors, and he lets much of his film unfold at a pace that may, in these frenzied times, seem rather leisurely. I thought the pace was fine, and adm...
2698d ago3/5
www.empireonline.comDVD
After his parents die in a car accident, toddler Pete is raised in the woods by a big friendly dragon. Six years later, their happy existence is upended when people from the loc...
2698d ago60/100
time.comDVD
Disney has a long history of terrifying children–especially when it comes to moms: Bambi’s is killed by hunters, Dumbo’s is captured and can comfort him only through the bars of...
2698d ago50/100
www.washingtonpost.comDVD
Despite the vastly improved visuals, the new film is just as soft-hearted — and, unfortunately, just as mush-headed — as the earlier one.
2698d ago50/100
www.nytimes.comDVD
This sentimental, nearly genteel movie demonstrates there’s a world of difference between invoking magic and conjuring it.
2698d ago2/4
www.slantmagazine.comDVD
It abandons its subtlety en route to becoming a moralistic screed about the preservation of the nuclear family.
2698d ago40/100
www.hollywoodreporter.comDVD
Bryce Dallas Howard and Robert Redford attempt to breathe life into this sluggish reconceptualization of the 1977 Disney film.
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