Jesus, this movie had no right being as good as it was. I used to watch it all the time as a kid and always remember enjoying it. Recently, it started popping in my head and saw it on Netflix the other night and decided to give it a watch and honestly, it's somewhat of a great movie. I'm not calling it a masterpiece or anything, it still has it's detractors (some weak preformances, mainly eric idle and cathy moriarty, dated references, and some dull aspects with christina ricci and her school life) but aside from all that it's kind of a great film for a fucking movie about Casper the Friendly Ghost. The special effects which were considered groundbreaking at the time still manage to hold up (i'm still kinda suprised it didn't at least get a nomination for best visual effects), alot of the humor is pretty well done at aiming at both kids and adults (the father guido cameo, still leaves me laughing my ass off), the sound design is shockingly spectacular (which was designed by gary rydstrom and feels like it was mixed almost yesterday and works as a great speaker demo) along with the production design (whipstaff manor still looks beautiful). I can't talk about this movie without bringing up that fucking emotional James Horner score, goddamn it did not deserve to be as beautiful as it was and really helped with every emotional scene in the film (casper's lullaby could make a grown man cry). Oh yeah, those emotional scenes by the way. Fuck, man. That ending with Bill Pullman getting a chance to see his wife again almost made me choke up, i thought it would be pretty sappy but it was honestly really well executed and I couldn't imagine it without that score. Overall, watch it if you want or not. It's not the best movie nor is it the worst, it's pretty damn watchable for what it is and I really feel like it should be talked about a little more. It feels like one of those films I would show my future kids like Roger Rabbit. TL;DR: Casper is a surprisingly well-executed film with beautiful technical aspects and a beautiful score, that manages to be an entertaining and pretty damn emotional ride albeit some of it's dated material along with some pretty small weak preformances. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2CnUBjl
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