Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997)

Rated PG for language, crude humor and threatening situations

Runtime: 1 hour and 33 minutes

Genre: Kids and Family, Comedy and Horror

Director: Sean McNamara

Writer: Jymn Magon and Thomas Hart

Actors: Steve Guttenberg, Lori Loughlin, Rodney Dangerfield, Michael McKean, Brendon Ryan Barrett, Jeremy Foley, Bill Farmer, Jim Ward, Jess Harnell, James Earl Jones and Pauly Shore

Budget: $10,000,000

Positives:

• The ghost performances were decent, but James Earl Jones is peak

Negatives:

• Very awkward jokes

• Bad animation quality

• Uninteresting real life and ghost character development and arcs

• Not much father and son activity because they are not communicating and get along with each other

• Super weakest script

• Poor editing

• Bullying scenes is way out of place and sick. No one deserves to be treated like that.

Overall Verdict:

Story 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (2)

Character/Actors 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (3)

Dialogue/Diction 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 (3)

Pacing/Timing 0 1 2 3 4 5 (2)

Background/Sets 0 1 2 3 4 5 (2)

Background Music/Audio 0 1 2 3 4 5 (2)

Camera/Editing 0 1 2 3 4 5 (2)

18/50                                           3.6/10