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Pete’s Dragon 2016 Review

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petes_dragon_2016_posterOut of every Disney movie that could possibly be remade Pete’s Dragon was one that I never expected Disney to touch again, the original movie was a 1977 musical about a young boy and his pet dragon who are on the run from his abusive adoptive family, the movie is a lot of fun and the songs will be stuck in your head for years after you see it, unfortunately the movie didn’t make a lot of money at the box office and Pete’s Dragon was eventually kicked under the rug by Disney and it was never mentioned again until this year when it got remade.

petes-dragonFor the remake they didn’t take the musical route, they instead tried to make Pete’s Dragon into a Drama which is fine if its still entertaining but the problem is that it isn’t, the film is so boring that I honestly just wanted to walk out of the cinema, the CGI is amazing and Elliot the Dragon looks awesome but the tone of movie really makes the film too slow for you too really care that much about how good the CGI is, I believe that if the film wasn’t about a dragon then it would have been a half decent Drama about a family trying to adopt a little boy who they find in the woods but because its a Disney movie and it really tries to reach that younger audience it just ended up being a film that wanted to be taken seriously but ultimately ended up being trapped inside of a kids film.

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I have to admit that I really liked Elliot in this movie, he wasn’t quite as charming as the quirky cartoon dragon I’m used too but this new version of Elliot more closely resembled an actual animal which was really cool to see, I notice a lot of people complaining that they didn’t like the directors choice to make Elliot act like a big green dog at times but I personally found it gave him a more playful and cuddly personality, I just wanna give him a big old hug.

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The casting is great, I love the cast from the original film but I never really liked the actor who played Pete (Sean Marshall) and in the remake the actor who played Pete (Oakes Fegley) was surprisingly really good at acting,I felt his emotions throughout this movie and I hope that this role pays off for him and he gets to be in a lot more films in the future, the rest of the cast was also very good but honestly the 1977 version had Mickey Rooney and you just cant top that.

Am I saying that the movie is terrible? no but I would be surprised if you don’t end up falling asleep or giving up half way through.

What did you think of Pete’s Dragon?

Do you agree with my opinion of the film?

Thanks for reading

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The Munsters (1964-1966) Review

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Does anyone recognize the goofiest and spookiest family of the mid 1960’s

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Created By Allan Burns (The Mary Tyler Moore Show) and Chris Hayward (The Dick Tracy Show) and both previously known for creating the popular sitcom Leave it to Beaver.

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The Munsters is an American sitcom about the life of an all American family of Monsters who live at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, The show is a parody of the classic monster horror films that came out in the 1930’s, they have a lot of famous faces of the day playing each of the family members but the most famous have to be Fred Gwynne who plays the Frankenstein father Herman Munster and Al Lewis who plays the vampire grandfather, other monsters in the house include Butch Patrick who plays Eddie the werewolf son, Yvonne De Carlo who Plays Herman’s vampire wife and Beverly Owen who plays Marilyn who is the only Munster who happens to be a regular human being, Beverly Owen was replaced by Pat Priest after the first 13 episodes of the show.markymunster247

The best thing about the show in my opinion is that its very similar to a lot of other sitcoms from back in the day, of course it does have a monster spin to it but that’s about the only difference, most of the comedy revolves around the Munster’s getting on with their everyday lives and everyone else freaking out when they see them, the shows longest running joke is that the Munster’s believe that they are the normal ones and they cant get their heads around why everyone else is terrified of them.

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The Munster’s ran for two seasons and it did very well financially until the live action television show Batman starring Adam West was put on air, Batman managed to attract a massive fan-base and unfortunately its popularity managed to allow it to take the Munster’s spot on CBS.

The Munster’s may have only lasted for two seasons but it was very popular when it was on TV, a lot re-runs were played after it was cancelled and sometimes around this time of year you may catch an episode or two being played on your local television network but until then the Munster’s will remain very important to its many fans including myself.

I hope you enjoyed this Review of the Munster’s

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Versatile Blogger Award: Seven Facts About Padawan

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Big thanks to Tea Tomorrow for nominating me for the Versatile Blogger Award

Check out Tea Tomorrow here http://teatomorrow.com/

THIS IS AWESOME!!!

Those who read my Blog know that I am a reviewer of media and other random things, by doing this I am able to give my opinion on these products as well as occasionally giving you random facts and trivia about those products, but I bet no one has ever wondered about the person sat behind the keyboard and until now I haven’t had a reason to share some personal facts about myself as well as some facts about myself that are a little bit crazy.

Just like most other challenges the Versaltile Blogger Award does have rules that need to be followed

1) Thank the person who gave you this award, and leave a link to their blog

2) Tell the person who nominated you 7 things about yourself

3) Select some Blogs/Bloggers that you’ve recently discovered or follow regularly

4) Nominate those Bloggers for the Versatile Blogger Award

with rules now out of the way lets begin

Fact number 1 – The review which took me the longest to write was Metal Gear Solid for the PS1 which took me a total of 8 days to finish

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Fact Number 2 – I often suffer from writers block which is why some of my reviews take a long time for me too finish

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Fact number 3 – I am very clumsy and through out my life I have broken almost every bone in my body

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Fact number 4 – One of my talents is singing

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Fact number 5 – I studied ICT while I was at College

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Fact number 6 – I enjoy listening to audio books, my favourite book is Peter Pan and Wendy by J.M Barrie

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Fact number 7 – I commit to a lot of charity work and I love to help others.

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Thats seven random facts about me, I nominate

Milk Bubble Tea http://milkbubbletea.blogspot.co.uk/

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Happy Indulgence http://www.happyindulgencebooks.com/

Thanks for reading this article, I hope you enjoyed reading some random facts about myself and Blogging

By Padawan

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