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List Price: $12.98 Our Price: $11.99 You Save: $0.99 Features • Animated • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DTS Surround Sound • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Live • Special Edition • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 26 May, 1995 DVD Release : 23 September, 2003 |
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Casper (Full Screen Special Edition) description This 1995 family film tries to put a fun spin on the story of a paranormalist and widower (Bill Pullman) who moves into a new house with his daughter (Christina Ricci) and meets up with the ghost of a dead little boy. Based on the comic book about Casper the friendly ghost, the film is a dreary series of awkward interactions between live actors and computer effects, and you can almost see Pullman and Ricci reconsidering the project while on camera. A few cameo appearances from uncredited stars help things a bit. But there's no way, based on this film, that one could have guessed that its director, Brad Silberling, would go on to make the exceptional drama City of Angels. --Tom Keogh |
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| There was something about Casper that attracted me to it, although I'm now a twenty-something. Could it be something to do with the fact I never actually got around to watching it when I was young? Probably. BUT I did have the movie novelisation, complete with film stills. Hehe.
I do get in the mood to watch kiddies' movies now again (or movies aimed purely at pre-teen squealing girls), it's something to do with reliving my childhood. But with Casper, I seriously don't think I could have watched this as a kid. It was so boring! The first half anyway. I thought it kicked it towards the end, but I was bored throughout the first half, and started texting on my phone. Not a good sign. However, I love Christina Ricci, she's definitely one of my favourite actresses, and have recently been watching some of her older films, after seeing Addams Family Values on TV! I always loved some of her older roles (Now & Then is a particular favourite), and she certainly surpassed herself in this, with having to act opposite a CGI character after all. I do wish there had been a bit more of a storyline with Casper & his deceased dad. There wasn't much mentioned about it, I kinda had an idea in my head of what Edward Scissorhands did, with the flashback interaction scenes between Johnny Depp & Vincent Price. (Technically not his dad, the inventor, but never mind.) And is it just me, or is it never clearly explained how Casper died? I found out on IMDB that he was playing on his sled all day, and got pneumonia, but I don't remember that being said. Or was that when I was texting? Casper is a safe family film. There are no innuendoes in this, as so many kiddie films have in them these days, which are for the adults to understand, and the kids to understand some day. It's safe, boring & predictable. I did get all emotional at the end (look out for Devon Sawa starring opposite Christina again, and sharing their second screen kiss!), but it does take a while to get going. The beginning is definitely not kids friendly. |
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