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The Pagemaster is the kind of movie first-grade teachers would have popped into the VCR in the 1990s to kill time on a rainy afternoon. Jul 15, 2018 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
The Pagemaster is the kind of movie first-grade teachers would have popped into the VCR in the 1990s to kill time on a rainy afternoon.
Christy Lemire
Built on a wispy premise better suited to the realm of TV, The Pagemaster plays like a slickly produced afternoon special. Dec 4, 2007
Built on a wispy premise better suited to the realm of TV, The Pagemaster plays like a slickly produced afternoon special.
Brian Lowry
Mediocre, really, this mixture of real actors and animation. Jun 24, 2006 | Full Review…
Mediocre, really, this mixture of real actors and animation.
Derek Adams
A pallid film framed at the start and finish by live action and mostly composed of cheap-looking animation. May 20, 2003 | Rating: 2/5
A pallid film framed at the start and finish by live action and mostly composed of cheap-looking animation.
Caryn James
Plays too much like a TV cartoon. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Plays too much like a TV cartoon.
Peter Stack
A sad and dreary film. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
A sad and dreary film.
Roger Ebert
Weak Macaulay Culkin fantasy with some cartoon violence. Jan 1, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Weak Macaulay Culkin fantasy with some cartoon violence.
Alex Orner
Weak Macaulay Culkin fantasy with some cartoon violence. Dec 14, 2010 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Renee Schonfeld
The film rests on its initial ingenuity and fails to develop the concept in interesting or surprising ways. Dec 4, 2007 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
The film rests on its initial ingenuity and fails to develop the concept in interesting or surprising ways.
If you're looking for a movie that may inspire your children to read, ignore this one and lay your money down for The Princess Bride or The NeverEnding Story. Jul 25, 2002 | Rating: 41/100
If you're looking for a movie that may inspire your children to read, ignore this one and lay your money down for The Princess Bride or The NeverEnding Story.
Scott Weinberg
a nice starting point for an important conversation with your child about why so many cartoons think children are stupid. Jun 6, 2002 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
a nice starting point for an important conversation with your child about why so many cartoons think children are stupid.
Walter Chaw
The Pagemaster's problems can be easily traced back to the screenplay, which simply lacks anything remotely resembling wit. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
The Pagemaster's problems can be easily traced back to the screenplay, which simply lacks anything remotely resembling wit.
Chris Hicks
All The Adventure Your Imagination Can Hold. Not a great or horrible movie! The beginning of this movie is excellent with tremendous sound and some nice humor, but once the film changes into animation it quickly loses its appeal. However, although this film is mostly disappointing, not all is lost. The story, for all its flaws, wastes no time in getting started, and there is a certain nostalgia surrounding the film for the endless stream of, mostly mediocre, but still harmless, cartoons of the 90s, when computer-generated animation was yet to be exploited. Overall, just not memorable enough or able to compete with the great animated films of the last dozen years. This is the story of a young boy named Richard Tyler, who finds shelter from a storm inside a nearby library. Tyler slips and is knocked unconscious while exploring a rotunda in the library. Upon awakening he is led on a journey through conflicts and events that resemble fictional stories, keeping him from finding the exit from the library.
Super Reviewer
Kids will like it and the animation is nice, plus some good acting, but overall its not the most memorable animated film made
A fantastic fantasy adventure for kids. Culkin gets turned into a cartoon and has to find his way back home from the book lands, and find his courage along the way. It's really a cool movie, and kids will love it.
(Relativley short review) Like "A Troll in Central Park", "The Pagemaster" is a family movie that most will hate, but I actually like. I like the lesson, I like the characters and I like the plot. The humor wasn't funny, but apart from that it was good. Like always, we start with the bad. This movie had WAY too many book puns. What's worse? They weren't even funny and they got old VERY quickly. It would have been a better movie without them. Still this movie had good. It has a good lesson, that kids should face their fears and that when they do, they'll come out stronger. Kids will never apply it, but it's a good lesson. The main character is someone you can really root for. He's a nerd and a coward, but he has a lot of potential too be something more. You'll be rooting for him the whole way. The books were very interesting characters too, and Whoopi Goldberg did a great job as Fantasy. "Adventure" did a nice job too. Finally, the plot was very original. I think it's good that hollywood is getting kids too read. This is a very good introduction to some of literature's greatest classics. Overrall, a pretty good film. Not great, but good.
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