![]() ![]() ![]() An eerily quiet prologue shows young Pete in a station wagon with his parents. The movie means business, right from the start. Now he has made a larger, very different movie without losing his instincts, his directorial stealth or his ability to finesse his actors’ performances, in this case in the vicinity of an achingly expressive and unexpectedly furry dragon with a little bit of bulldog in him. Seeing that film three years ago, it was obvious the director was a large talent in the making. If you’re a major studio, you don’t hire the director who made the Texas crime story “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” and expect pablum. Enough to make it look the way it looks, which is beautiful but not so much that Disney expected a dumber, blander sort of entertainment. But I’m guessing that Lowery worked with a large but not insane amount of money. STARRING: Bryce Dallas Howard, Oakes Fegley, Oona Laurence, Robert Redford, Karl Urban, Wes Bentleyĭisney is notoriously resistant about releasing any sort of production budget figures for any of its products.
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