It’s still certified “rotten” on Rotten Tomatoes. When the movie debuted in 1994, it was panned by critics: Roger Ebert called the film “sad and dreary.” Culkin was nominated for a “Worst Actor” Razzie (a bit harsh, if you ask me). as Richie’s dad), with the bulk of the story taking place in the animated labyrinth of the library.
The film was one of the first to combine live-action and animation- The Pagemaster contains just 17 minutes of real-world footage (including a quick cameo by Ed Begley Jr. Fun fact: The Pagemaster only features works of fiction that were written before 1923, and are thus part of the public domain. Composer James Horner created the music for all three films. Produced by Turner Feature Animation, The Pagemaster was animated by the same crew who worked on films like An American Tail (on which Kirschner is also credited as a writer) and The Land Before Time. Hyde (Leonard Nimoy), and emerges a braver version of himself.
Along the way, Richie steps into the worlds of Moby Dick, Treasure Island, and Gulliver’s Travels, meets fictional characters like Dr. There, he’s transformed into a cartoon and must journey with books Adventure (Patrick Stewart), Fantasy (Whoopi Goldberg), and Horror (Frank Welker) through library stacks and stories come alive to find the exit sign. Dewey’s (Christopher Lloyd) mazelike library. The film, which turned 25 this November, stars Macaulay Culkin as Richard Tyler, a pessimistic 10-year-old whose fear is controlling his life-“The kid’s afraid of tuna fish sandwiches!” One day, seeking shelter from a storm, Richie stumbles into Mr. Rotten Tomatoes critic Christy Lemire says “ 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.” She’s not wrong-I watched the film countless times during elementary school, mostly during rainy days, much to my delight. He has to work through obstacles from classic books to return to real-life.” “A cowardly boy, who buries himself in accident statistics, enters a library to escape a storm, only to be transformed into an animated illustration by the Pagemaster. We’re the experts.ĭavid Kirschner (producer and writer) Paul Gertz (producer) Joe Johnston, Pixote Hunt (directors) David Casci, Ernie Contreras (writers) We use the mathematical formula (Force = Mass x Acceleration) as our model, where (Is It Still Good!? = Product x Decay Over Time, or, DOT). Is It Still Good!? is a column measuring the continuing cultural strength of past animated products in the present.
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