PETE'S DRAGON 3D

PETE'S DRAGON 3D:  From Disney but having no resemblance to their live action/animation film from years gone by, this re-imagining of  the tale still has a ton of the Disney magic and charm.  Bryce Dallas Howard stars as Grace, a forest ranger in the great Northwest.  Her father (Robert Redford) is a woodcarver who delights in telling tales of a dragon that once live in the woods.  Grace believes her fathers stories are merely that....stories, until she stumbles across Pete (Oakes Fegley). a ten year-old orphan, who had lived alone in the woods for any number of years.   Well, not exactly alone... with a dragon named Eliot.   From the opening shots of this lovely film, we know that Eliot is real and that is part of the fun, watching the story unfold.  I saw it in 3D which I thought was a bonus because of the majesty of the forest and the thrilling flight of the dragon.  There are villains in the piece, loggers who are bent on clearing the timber and capturing Eliot once they have spotted him, which is no mean task since he can disappear at will.  So, no spoiler here, there is a happy ending but not before some lessons are learned (by the adults).  And by the way, Eliot is brilliant CGI work... big, green, fuzzy, with a broken tooth and just plain loveable.   And that's the word for this movie...Loveable!