Casper

Name: Casper
Director: Brad Silberling
Released: 1995

Brad Silberling

1995

3.50

Synopsis

Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow spirits, he brings along his teenage daughter, Kat. Casper quickly falls in love with Kat, but their budding relationship is complicated not only by his transparent state, but also by his troublemaking apparition uncles and their mischievous antics.

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Cast

Christina RicciKathleen 'Kat' Harvey
Bill PullmanDr. James Harvey
Malachi PearsonCasper (voice)
Cathy MoriartyCarrigan Crittenden
Eric IdlePaul 'Dibbs' Plutzker
Joe AlaskeyStinkie (voice)
Joe NipoteStretch (voice)
Brad GarrettFatso (voice)
Devon SawaCasper on Screen
Dan AykroydDr. Raymond Stantz (uncredited)

Recommendations

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Like The Flintstones and The Addams Family, Casper is an attempt to bring cartoons to life while incorporating them with real actors and sets. As a technical achievement, it's impressive, and entertaining.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
A better- than-average children's film, dolled up with some high-priced art direction and extraordinary special effects.
60
The New York Times
Casper is not the kind of smartly written movie that works on children's and adult levels at once. But with its lively pace, smashing visual tricks and one of the cutest heroes on screen, it is an engaging fantasy for very small children.
60
TV Guide Magazine
Let's face it, it's about a dead boy who falls in love with a real live girl. The high-tech animation is completely persuasive; nothing else is.
60
Empire
It's aimed squarely at the tinies, but there is charm enough here to make it bearable for adults too.
60
Time Out London
An intimate and likeable picture. As a part-animated live-action movie, it harks back to less frenetic kids' fare from the '60s like Bedknobs and Broomsticks, rather than, say, the 'toon-laden Roger Rabbit.
50
Entertainment Weekly
What’s depressing about the current Hollywood mania to literalize old cartoon series isn’t that a show like Casper is such bad source material. It’s that the movie version is like the cartoon without innocence — a fairy tale with the soul of a rerun.
50
Variety
Another demonstration of the hazards involved turning a six-minute animated short into a big budget movie, Casper will doubtless spur nostalgic recognition among grown-ups but skews so heavily toward children that it offers little to divert anyone over the age of 8.

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