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Anyone looking to compare this Pete’s Dragon with the 1977 original would do well not to—in part because the 1977 version is garbage, and in part because this remake is an entirely different creature. Set in the shadowed forests of the Pacific Northwest, Pete’s Dragon: 2016 Edition finds feral child Pete (Oakes Fegley) hanging out in the woods with his pal Elliot, a giant green dog who can fly. At its best points, that’s all the movie is: a dirt-smeared kid and his excellent dragon running around with a wild earnestness that recalls Spike Jonze’s underrated take on Where the Wild Things Are. Since this is a 2016 Disney movie, though, there has to be more, and while some of that extra stuff is great (Robert Redford, fully in “cuddly grandpa” mode, plays an old weirdo who swears he once saw a dragon in the woods), some of it isn’t (villainous logger Karl Urban tries to catch Elliot, even as Bryce Dallas Howard tries to mother Pete).