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Summary: This movie is great!
Review: My kids loved this movie and enjoyed it very much. It's about a kid who wont attempt most anything that a child does just for fun, just because statistics say the danger levels.Something as simple as going to the store or climbing a ladder up to a tree house scare him very much. Then he slips & suffers a fall inside the library and looses conciousness, where he travels to dreamland and converts to an animation. Then he has to survive very dangerous situations; making him realize that he doesn't have to be afraid to try new things. Get this movie your kids will love it, and you as a parent will enjoy watching along with them. It will bring you back to childhood :)
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Summary: This movie is great!
Review: My kids loved this movie and enjoyed it very much. It's about a kid who wont attempt most anything that a child does just for fun, just because statistics say the danger levels. Something as simple as going to the store or climbing a ladder up to a tree house scare him very much. Then he slips & suffers a fall inside the library and looses conciousness, where he travels to dreamland and converts to an animation. Then he has to survive very dangerous situations; making him realize that he doesn't have to be afraid to try new things. Get this movie your kids will love it, and you as a parent will enjoy watching along with them. It will bring you back to childhood :)
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Summary: Great fantasy/adventure/literary movie for kids.
Review: My son loves this movie! I love that it shows the different types of books in a library and that all types of adventures can be achieved with just the use of a library card. A wonderful story for "the underdog" All children will enjoy this boy on his journey to find courage and his love for books.
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Summary: Most uninteresting
Review: Perhaps young children watch with happiness, but this animated feature is pure blandness. Storyline: a psychotic child who has no hobbies and is obscessed with statistics of every sort of accident (he rides a bicycle with blinkers, a protective shield, and a loud beeper). He always wears several helmets and is afraid of heights. He is so completely pathetic that no one can possibly sympathize with him. Next, he gets into a giant mystic library in the middle of the storm, totally dark and forgotten, where a mystic librarian (Frank Lloyd) hands him a library card, a ticket to adventure. Soon the paint collapses and he is swept into the cartoon version of the library and the books in it, assisted by three book pals - Fantasy (Whoopi Goldberg), a pirate Adventure (I'm quite sure his voice is provided by Patrick Stewart), and Horror (I can't quite tell who that is). Their entire adventure to the exit sign is so lifeless and dull, perhaps due to the poorly-done script and some pathetic book interpretations, that even the spooky glowing-green smoke in the visuals does not save it. I found the Pagemaster to be a spectacular drag. Don't watch it, please.
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Summary: so-so movie
Review: Richard Tylor is a timid little boy who is concerned with safety. He runs into a library when a strom comes up, and enters an animated adventure. There, Richard must find the EXIT to the animated world and get to his home. Along the way, he befriends three books who can talk: Adventure, Horror and Fanasty (spelling?). To find the exit, Richard must get passed three worlds which are named after the talking books. He meets Long John Silver, Moby Dick, and a dragon that's guarding the exit.
The animation is so-so, not the best in the world and not the worst. Worth watching once.
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Summary: One of Macaulay Culkin's last movies
Review: The Pagemaster is a rare movie, that has both live action and animation. It's about a boy that hates heights (and who couldn't blame him). And is also a rare live action movie that has a G rating. The live action part of the movie was directed by Joe Johnston. And the animation part of the movie was directed by Maurice Hunt. As the movie opens, Ricard Tyler (Macaulay Culkin) is sent to get some nails for the tree house his father is bulding in a tree, Richard refuses to climb. But it starts to rain. So Richard takes shelter in a library, where a man (Christopher Lloyd) who claims that he has a talent for what people need. He ends up with a library card, and asks the man where the phone is. Christopher Lloyd also voices the title character. And when paint starts to fall from a picture of the Pagemaster, Richard tries to find the exit, but can't, and is turned into a cartoon character, and is visited by the Pagemaster, who tells him that he has to get to the exit to get back to a human character, which he is still in the library.
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Summary: My 3 year old thinks it's great!
Review: This is a regularly rented video at our house which is why I'm buying it. My 3 year old son LOVES pirates, dragons, all that stuff. I don't find the movie terribly interesting or inspiring, but he likes it much better than Little Mermaid, Beauty & the Beast or other Disney fare that parents are so crazy about!
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Summary: The Pagemaster
Review: This movie is great especially for kids with vivd imaginations. It takes them from the real world to the world of fantasy, adventure and intimidation. It leaves a great message for the kids to think about. I have probably bought it three times over in rentals at our local video store before I bought it.
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Summary: A Little Too Late
Review: When this film came out ('94)it seemed like a step backwards. Other studios were doing some amazing things with their animation (Aladdin, My Neigbour Totoro) and this film looked as if it had been sitting on the shelf for a decade. It did boast some early CGA, but it's so simple that it's hardly distinguishable as such. Some of the scenes seem almost forced and Leonard Nimoy's role is overbilled just as Patrick Stewart's role of Adventure is underbilled. I also felt that Whoopie Goldberg seemed miscast as the voice of Fantasy. It is fairly obvious that this film suffered from the Hollywood hype machine and would have been better if it hadn't been developed as a marketing tool.
Having said that, it is still an amusing film and a worth while watch, especially for those who have seen everything else. At times it even seems a little reminicent of The Phantom Tollbooth.
Just don't expect much from it.
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