This is not Disney's first film to feature a mixture of live action and animation, but it was one of the few that I have seen. I enjoyed this movie a bit as a child, but mainly because I liked things like dragons and Godzilla movies. Granted this one features a rather friendly dragon, it still was fun for me to watch as a child. The songs though are a bit silly and not very good, the plot goes here and there a bit to much and it has one of those sad endings like a lot of Disney movies from this era seemed to have (though nothing compares to the ending of "Old Yeller"). The story has a boy who is befriended by a dragon and at the start of the film he is trying to escape his strange family. He is an orphan and I think he is basically a foster child as they have a bill of sale on him so it is almost a case of him being a slave. Well he ends up in a town where he is taken in by a local who happens to live in a lighthouse. Her husband I believe is out to sea at the moment and this sets up a plot point that occurs during the end of the film. Pete gets in all sorts of trouble thanks to his dragon at times, but the dragon also gets Pete out of trouble at times as well and really comes through in the end. There is also a plot point involving a sort of medicine man who actually sees the dragon at one point and wants to chop him up and use him in potions. The dragon is invisible for a lot of the film and this is why Pete gets in so much trouble because of him. It has its moments, but it is kind of lame and sappy at the same time.
Review of Pete's Dragon
