The Pagemaster | | Cast : | Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd | | Director : | Pixote Hunt, Maurice Hunt, Joe Johnston | | Studio : | Fox Home Entertainme | | Format : | Animated, Color, Widescreen | | Released Date : | November 23, 1994 | | DVD Released Date : | December 14, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | G (General Audience) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 17, 2005 | | Summary | There should be a re-make of this | Content
 | I still enjoy this flick. They used to air it on Cartoon Network. But it will be cooler if they re-made it! It will be directed by the dymamic duo that worked on "Indiana Jones: Raders of the Lost Ark", Steven Spelliberg and George Lucas! The effects are gonna be intense with today's advanced technology, and extended! Would you love that! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 08, 2005 | | Summary | Teaching: A Great literature tool! | Content
| I have been a reading specialist for two years and a classroom teacher for one. I found this movie a great asset to enhance the understanding of book genres. I also found it to be very interesting for those who have read or are familiar with many classics. There are so many references to the classics in this movie. It was a great visual tool for students to understand types of books and develop an excitement for books!
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| Rating | | | Date | March 03, 2005 | | Summary | amazing | Content
| this is my favorite movie of all time. the animation are simple, as is the plot, but its a wonderful story. it cute and entertaining, the music is beautiful, and it's just a lot of fun. i can't wait to get the dvd. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 25, 2005 | | Summary | This movie is for people who love books | Content
| This is the first movie I remember seeing as a kid. I LOVED it. It was my favorite. Then, I didn't get to see it again for several years (stupid Blockbuster!) When I finally saw it again, I STILL liked it. I like it as I write this very day. The music is good (the background music behind the movie that nobody really conciously listens to, but helps the mood anyway). The animation's good, too. And I ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT! (How often does that happen?) See, what happens a lot of the time, is that people blame colors they don't like, or designs that are annoying, or WHATEVER on the animation. But it isn't the animation's fault! The way the thing on-screen MOVES is the only thing the animators do, mostly. So, if you really want to criticize the animation, look at how they MOVE, not what they look like. Do you see?
I think that, really, most of the reason that this is one of my favorite movies is that it is about BOOKS. When I was little, my dad read me "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" and "The Hobbit"; things like that. So, naturally, I loved books and stories. This is practically the only movie I've seen that encourages reading so much while still being sincere. It's obvious that the filmmakers themselves (or at least, a lot of the people working on it) actually like to read. THAT'S really why I like the Pagemaster.
So, if you like to read, watch this movie. If you don't (you utter nincompoop), stay away, and don't criticize what you have no comprehension of. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 01, 2004 | | Summary | A terrible waste of talent... | Content
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...in terms of the actors and energy devoted to a potentially exciting idea, spoiled by lack of true imagination on the part of the writers, producers, and directors of this movie. When anticipating theatrical release, the kids in the family were excited by the trailers, but they were excruciatingly bored by the film itself, which proved to be unimaginative, uninspired, and without the sort of spark to be expected of the collection of voice and acting talents participating therein. And I could determine in '94 why the movie was bound to suck. Note that the three genres of fiction instantiated in *The Pagemaster* were: (1) Fantasy (2) Adventure (3) Horror Not a whiff of Science Fiction, kiddies. Of course. Proverbs 29:18 all over the place ("Without a vision, the people perish"). The mark of the mundanes is all over this movie. Ostensible credits notwithstanding, if there was a genuine science fiction fan involved in the production of *The Pagemaster*, he was kept drugged and trussed up in a trunk somewhere on the set so he couldn't interfere with the process of turning perfectly good ingredients like these into a flat, uninteresting, drooling dollop of witlessness. Beware the mark of the mundanes, my people! In this as in everything else in life, they are walking Black Holes of vapidness, guaranteeing in every spoiled celluloid square of *The Pagemaster* an overwhelming dose of major suckage.
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