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Casper: A Spirited Beginning

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Before he met and befriended the other ghouls at Applegate Manor, friendly ghost Casper meets young Chris Carson, a lonely kid who decides to teach Casper how to be a proper ghost.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1997-09-09

Runtime: 90 mins

Director: Sean McNamara

Spoken language: English

Genres: Adventure, Family, Comedy, Fantasy

Original title: Casper: A Spirited Beginning

Production Companies: The Harvey Entertainment Company, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Saban Entertainment, Brookwell-McNamara Entertainment

Production Countries: United States of America

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<em>'Casper: A Spirited Beginning'</em> is rather rubbish, not that that is of any surprise. It's a stripped back version of the original in every way possible, with the animation - which, admittedly, isn't the greatest in the 1995 release - particularly standing out as being awful. The cast are OK, if entirely forgettable - perhaps with the exceptions of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_McGill" rel="nofollow">Chuck McGill</a>, Michael McKean, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Lion_King_(franchise)_characters#:~:text=and%20kill%20him.-,Mufasa,-%5Bedit%5D" rel="nofollow">Mufasa</a>, James Earl Jones. Let's see what <em>'Casper Meets Wendy'</em> cobbles together...
2022-01-24

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