Pete’s Dragon was, to me, about the importance of kindness, friendship, and finding joy in the life you’re living. It was as Kathleen Kelly said it would be in You’ve Got Mail: “When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.” For all of its oddness and lack of substantial commercial or critical success, Pete’s Dragon shaped my worldview and changed my life. Pete’s Dragon always felt to me less like a film and more like an introduction to the world the way I wanted to see it. I’m not sure it’s any one thing or belongs in any one place. The key to enjoying the original Pete’s Dragon (the remake is out this weekend) is understanding it for what it is: odd, charming, and, in some ways, a little tough to categorize. I’m not even sure why or how I happened to come upon Petes Dragon in the first place, other than the very real possibility that the classic white Disney clamshell-cased VHS was on sale and I liked that its cover had something that looked vaguely like a dog (and let’s be honest: Elliott does kind of look like a big, weirdly-shaped, winged, green dog). It came out in 1977, 13 years before I was born, and was never terribly successful. It was a weird pick for a favorite movie. And one of the things I liked the most was Pete’s Dragon. But back then I didn’t feel the need to justify them.
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