Pete’s Dragon: Disney via Malick (late Malick)

Pete’s DragonDirected by David LoweryOpens August 12
Pete’s Dragon may be the best entry so far in Disney’s worst ongoing franchise: the handsome, empty repainting of their catalog titles. It’s this movie in particular that necessitates the use of “catalog titles” rather than “classics”; the original 1977 Pete’s Dragon is, to my recollection, one of the studio’s more negligible and tedious hybrid movies of the 70s, with treacly songs a