Casper: A Spirited Beginning
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Casper: A Spirited Beginning

"It's a whole new scream!"

1997 1h 30m ★ 5.4 (330 votes) Released

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.

Director

Sean McNamara

Screenplay

Jymn Magon

Screenplay

Thomas Hart

Rating
5.4
Runtime
90 min
Budget
$3.5M

Production

The Harvey Entertainment Company The Harvey Entertainment Company
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Saban Entertainment Saban Entertainment
Brookwell-McNamara Entertainment Brookwell-McNamara Entertainment

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r96sk
★ 4/10 Jan 24, 2022

<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...

Keywords

workaholicprequelfish out of watersingle fatherteacher student relationshipghostlive action and animationfather son relationshipdirect to video

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