So about that great WOM I was hoping for for Pete's Dragon: yeah I dunno about that now. The movie is very subdued and slow paced and I don't think I can see today's ADD gen of kids going for it at all. Especially after the flat out rejection of BFG earlier this summer, which may as well be The Secret Life of Pets compared to PD in terms of pacing. Haven't been in a more restless theater in ages than my screening of PD. I swear, all the kids in the theater were squirming and chattering for 80% of it.