A young boy is orphaned when his family are involved in a car crash whilst driving though the forest, somewhere in the pacific north west I believe. Essentially I'm going into this franchise remake/reboot blind which makes a change, primarily because I can't rip this new version apart compared to the original (bugger). Its at this point I will admit that I have never actually seen the 1977 movie of Peter and his dragon, so I cannot compare.

So the original 1977 movie was a musical with a classic cast and is commonly known to be Disney's attempt at riding on the coattails of its earlier success 'Mary Poppins'. Well at least they took an old forgotten movie which wasn't really too good, because at least that makes some sense (glances at the movies in the queue awaiting their turn.I feel your pain, I really do). Oh boy! another live action remake/reboot type scenario from Disney, because that's what we want and need (ugh!). With help from a young girl named Natalie (Oona Laurence), Grace sets out to investigate if this fantastic claim can be true. His daughter Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard) believes these are just tall tales, until she meets Pete (Oakes Fegley), a 10-year-old orphan who says he lives in the woods with a giant, friendly dragon.

Meacham (Robert Redford), a woodcarver, delights local children with stories of a mysterious dragon that lives deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest.

Pete's dragon school