Audience Rating: G (General Audience) Binding: VHS Tape Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4372 EAN: 9786303394343 Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, Live, NTSC ISBN: 6303394345 Label: 20th Century Fox Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: 20th Century Fox Release Date: July 02, 1996 Running Time: 76 minutes Studio: 20th Century Fox Theatrical Release Date: November 23, 1994 Sales Rank: 4703
Amazon.com: A blend of live-action and animation, this film centers on a fearful young boy (Macaulay Culkin) afraid to experience life because he's calculated the odds of an accident for every known activity. Chased by bullies, he winds up at the local library, where a bump on the head sends him into an animated universe, where his best friends are walking, talking books voiced by, among others, Patrick Stewart and Whoopi Goldberg. The Pagemaster (Christopher Lloyd) points the way to the exit, but the boy must first traverse the adventures of literary history, encountering everyone from Dr. Jekyll to Captain Ahab to Long John Silver. The animation is middling, but a worthy message makes this better children's entertainment than you'd expect. How can you fault a movie that encourages kids to pick up a book? --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - great story
A boy who is afraid of his own shadow goes on a great adventure in book-land. He conquers his fears and learns to appreciate books at the same time. I'd say the movie's geared toward boys more so than ... Read More
Rating: - family movie
This movie is a very good family movie and is nice enough my little sister can watch it.
Rating: - It's a wholesome movie for kids...
I read this book to my son first and then he wanted to see the movie. I bought him the DVD and we watched it together. We liked the fact that it was done in half animation and half real actors. That ... Read More
Rating: - the pagemaster: review
we did know the film and saw the movie already before purchase, but we only had it on a video and we wanted it on dvd. in europe we did not find it, but with amazon we did.
we are happy with ... Read More
Rating: - Over look on pagemaster
Very interesting movie. Very understandable and children love this. It is well organized and the features are great.
- family movie
- It's a wholesome movie for kids...