The Pagemaster

Name: The Pagemaster
Released: 1994-11-23
Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Whoopi Goldberg, Patrick Stewart, Leonard Nimoy

The Pagemaster

G
1h 16m
1994

21%

age 7+

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After he enters an empty library in search of refuge from a storm, young Richard Tyler (Macaulay Culkin) is swept into a magical animated world. Inside this timeless place of wonder and discovery, characters from literary classics like “Treasure Island” and “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” come alive. Soon, it becomes clear that in order to find his way home, Richard must conquer his greatest fears.

Director:

Joe Johnston, Maurice Hunt

Producer:

David Kirschner, Paul Gertz

Writer:

David Casci, David Kirschner, Ernie Contreras

Cast:

Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Whoopi Goldberg, Patrick Stewart, Leonard Nimoy, Frank Welker, Ed Begley Jr., Mel Harris

EXTRAS

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MAKING OF THE PAGEMASTER

FROM THE SOUNDTRACK ALBUM PAGEMASTER

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THEATRICAL TRAILER 1

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THEATRICAL TRAILER 2

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

21%

Reviews

Espinof

Sergio Benítez

Narrated with a rhythm that prevents that one can get bored, the moral of 'The Pagemaster', which invokes the power of books and reading. [Full Review in Spanish]

The Pagemaster is the kind of movie first-grade teachers would have popped into the VCR in the 1990s to kill time on a rainy afternoon.

Weak Macaulay Culkin fantasy with some cartoon violence.

Weak Macaulay Culkin fantasy with some cartoon violence.

June 22, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Variety

Brian Lowry

Built on a wispy premise better suited to the realm of TV, The Pagemaster plays like a slickly produced afternoon special.

June 21, 2017

Common Sense Media

age 7+

Common Sense Says

Weak Macaulay Culkin fantasy with some cartoon violence.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that there's lots of cartoon action in this film but no one gets seriously hurt. Characters fall from great heights and immediately come back to fall again just moments later. The hero and others are captured, then escape and immediately come back to get captured again. With a mix of animation and live-action, there are swashbuckling pirates, threatening sharks, scary hounds, unhinged authority figures, and a fire-breathing dragon with ghostly accomplices. Ominous music and spooky colors and sound effects heighten the suspense, but except for the youngest or most sensitive kids there's no real sense of jeopardy.