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Adventure: I wrote the book on sailing. In fact, I am the book on sailing.
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Adventure: Hmm, you know what would make this a happy ending? A kiss.
Horror: Doh, okay.
[smack]
Adventure: I meant from her!
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Fantasy: What is this?
Richard: It's a library card.
Fantasy: I'm a book, honey, I can read.
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Horror: Sixteen men on a dead man's stomach...
Fantasy: No, no! Chest! Chest!
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Richard: This is not good, definitely not good.
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Richard: Hey! How'd you get here?
Fantasy: Quit it! We are in the presence of the Pagemaster.
Richard: I know who he is. He's the guy who did all this to me! Do you have any idea what I've been through?
The Pagemaster: Tell me.
Richard: I was nearly torn to shreds by a crazy doctor, I was made a slave to a bunch of mangy pirates, and eaten - Got that? - eaten by a fire-breathing dragon!
Horror: He don't mean it, my Pagemaster. He don't mean it.
Richard: Not to mention being tossed, squashed, and scared practically to death!
The Pagemaster: Yet you stand before me.
Richard: Well, yeah.
The Pagemaster: Think, boy. What kind of an adventure would you have had if I brought you here with the turn of a page?
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[upon meeting Captain Ahab]
Fantasy: He's possessed!
Horror: He's insane!
Adventure: He's my kinda guy!
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Dr. Jekyll: My boy, I derive no pleasure in telling you that you are in extreme danger.
Richard: Danger?
Dr. Jekyll: Even as we speak.
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Mr. Dewey: Richard Tylor, consider this your passport to the wonderful and quite unpredictable world of books.
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Tom: Give the word, captain Silver, and I'll show you the color of his insides.
Richard: Red, red, they're red!
Long John Silver: Stow your cutlass, Tom, I want a better look at his outsides first.
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Fantasy: You know this short story?
Richard: He's Adventure.
Fantasy: Honey, that's what they all say.
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Adventure: How would you like to curl up with a good book?
[Fantasy wallops him]
Adventure: Ow, me binding!
Fantasy: In your dreams!
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Richard: Fantasy!
Fantasy: Naturally. Who were you expecting, Honey? The Tooth Fairy?
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Horror: We are lusty, adventurous men.
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Description
Seeking refuge from a storm, timid Richard Tyler enters an empty library only to be swept away into the magical animated world of the Pagemaster. It's a timeless place of wonder and discovery where legendary characters from literary classics come alive. Richard meets the infamous "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide" and comes face to face with the mighty "Moby Dick," the treacherous pirates on "Treasure Island" an a giant fire - breathing dragon, Guided by a trio of talking books - Adventure, Fantasy and horror - Richard must conquer his greatest fears before he can find his way home.
Amazon.com
A blend of live-action and animation, this film centers on a fearful young boy (Macaulay Culkin) afraid to experience life because he's calculated the odds of an accident for every known activity. Chased by bullies, he winds up at the local library, where a bump on the head sends him into an animated universe, where his best friends are walking, talking books voiced by, among others, Patrick Stewart and Whoopi Goldberg. The Pagemaster (Christopher Lloyd) points the way to the exit, but the boy must first traverse the adventures of literary history, encountering everyone from Dr. Jekyll to Captain Ahab to Long John Silver. The animation is middling, but a worthy message makes this better children's entertainment than you'd expect. How can you fault a movie that encourages kids to pick up a book? --Marshall Fine
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