FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

marieltrokan The 1995 film Casper, is the right of the impossible to manipulate the possible. The right of the impossible, is the lack of right of the possible. The lack of right is the gain of no right - the gain of no right is the ability of force.The manipulation of the possible is the ability of force of the possible: the ability of force is the inability of freedom, and the inability of freedom is a corrupt tyranny.The possible is reality. The corrupt tyranny of reality is the manipulation of reality. The manipulation of reality is the non- manipulation of the supernatural - the purity of the supernatural is the corrupt tyranny of reality.A corrupt tyranny is a pure freedom. The purity of the supernatural is the pure freedom of reality. A pure freedom is not reality. Reality is a corrupt freedom. The purity of the supernatural is a pure freedom that's a corrupt freedom.A pure freedom is a pure purity. The purity of purity is a pure purity that's a corrupt purity.The purity of purity is corruption that can't be defeated. Corruption that's exempt is a corruption that's exempt that's a corruption that's not exempt.In order for a corruption to have the right to exist, the pureness of the corruption needs to experience a corrupt version of itself: the ability of a weakness needs to experience the weakness itself so that the weakness can exist.The ability of a weakness, is the censorship of a power. The censorship of a power needs to experience the power so that the power can exist.Reality is dependent on the censorship of reality being identical to reality. The very definition of power is the need to connect power to the opposite of power.Power is connection. Connection is the connection of connection to disconnection. The connection of connection is the disconnection of connection: connection is the disconnection of connection to disconnection.Disconnection is an image. Connection is an image of image to no image.An image of image to no image is not image to no image - not image to no image is image and no image.Connection is the co-existence of image and no image - the co- existence of co-existence and no co-existence.Connection is no co-existence and no co-existence - intolerance and intolerance.Connection is when an observing force isn't responsible for a history of no control. Reality's objective is to possess a history of no control without the history having had any means to exist

ElMaruecan82 As far as special effects were concerned, 1995 was a year with quite a special effect on the technological department of filmmaking. And I'm not even speaking out of facts gathered from IMDb or Wikipedia but from my own memories. Indeed, I'm old enough to remember all the buzz around "Toy Story", the first major animated movie all in 3D, the Pixar that started it all and paved the way to a new revolutionary substitution for hand-made drawings. I can also remember the fuss about "Jumanji", a film so overflowed by CGI that the story seemed almost accessory. And if memory doesn't fail me, I remember that the opening explosion of "Die Hard With a Vengeance" was quite a remarked practical effect. But there's an unfairly forgotten little gem whose special effects garnered a fair deal of applause yet the film itself didn't hold up very well despite being in the same vein of inspirational sweetness than "Toy Story".In fact, I'd go as far as saying that "Casper" almost plays like the kid brother of "E.T.". Steven Spielberg was the executive producer and you can tell from the few little nods made to the film that the film wasn't just intended to be a CGI fest. Indeed, computer imagery wasn't a new thing in 1995 and the early precursors (such as "Jurassic Park" and "Terminator 2") had proved something essential: all the special effects of the world can't amount to much if there's no story to justify them. Yet "Casper" might be the one exception because you can say the real star is the special effect, because it's the first film where the lead protagonist is entirely made in computer, it's an unprecedented feat. Brad Silberling's movie has lead human characters but you can feel a kinship with a movie like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". There's a difference though with Zemeckis' movie: ghosts are transparent, they fly, float and can't touch humans, which simplifies the crossover but on the other hand, they also extend the possibilities and the range of action. It's not as easy as it seems, you have to deal with characters who pop up everywhere, who can make the body either freeze or elastically move, and there's a moment where Bill Pullman tries to handle Casper's mischievous uncles and his body language is very convincing. One of the strengths of the film is to handle ghosts like characters with properties and abilities of their own and make them adapt to human standards or humans trying to interact with them, which provides a nice share of action, fun and even tenderness that the format of the initial cartoon couldn't carry. I knew Casper from the cartoons but I never "enjoyed" him, I found him too bland and dull as a lead character, but I did enjoy the horrified reactions of people, one of the series' running gags. So, there has always been a little comedic aspect of "Casper", which the film efficiently explores while also testing more dramatic waters, portraying Casper, not as a ghost but as a deceased child. This was a gutsy move because it seems to establish the rule that once you're a ghost, your face turns into an animated version of yourself, a rule abandoned though for the climax, which we forgive since it does work on an emotional level. "Casper" is a film to watch without cynical eyes in order to embrace its sensitivity and gentleness, even the uncle trio who provide the obligatory spice aren't as bad as they seem and their presence is obviously meant to be a wink to more adult audiences.But watching the film so many years after, I think the friendship story works even better than the rest, it seems to be infused with a sweetness that lacks today. Granted the issue of Casper or Kat (Christina Ricc) is of universal level but can you imagine today a teenage girl complaining about not having friends, in the days of virtual relationships? Kat would be so busy on her i-phone she wouldn't even notice Casper, and if she did, maybe she'd try to have a selfie with him. Would still kids be scared of Casper? Wouldn't they try to get him on film and play it on Youtube? "Casper" reassured me that I still belonged to a generation that would act like Elliott and "E.T." And Ricci's performance confirmed what her acting showed in "The Addams Family", she is a very underrated actress, what a change from the creepy Wednesday to the sweet and open-minded Kat, and she's the perfect counter-balance to her zanier father, played by Pullmann.The casting is quite excellent in fact, from the voice actors to a pair of nasty villains played by Cathy Moriarty and Eric Idle, not to mention some very well-thought nods to the cinematic realm of ghosts. That cameo of Dan Aykryod alone was funnier than any moment from the dreadful "Ghostbusters 3" and of course, I had my share of horrified reactions and Bill Pullman's opening the closest only to find Casper remains one of my funniest memories. The man is a psychiatrist, supposedly dealing with the dead and more hilarious than the scream itself is the knowledge that it comes from someone who couldn't stop bragging about his 'ghost' connection. The film did well at the box-office but it's a shame it's not remembered as well, maybe the relative thinness of the plot or that it came too early or too late, I don't know, I can only speak for the teen I was and who enjoyed the film, and the adult who enjoyed it even better.So, not much "E.T.", not quite "Harry Potter", but it's a sweet, gentle film that all the family can enjoy, and I don't know why it shouldn't be recommended.

dweilermg-1 As a child I loved the Casper comic books and televised cartoons and was anxious to take my daughter to this movie. It gave a new depth to the character by explaining who little Casper was before he died and how he died which no cartoon or comic book ever explained. This movie truly captured the spirit of what made us baby boomer kids love the character.

Brandon Maynard I recently re-watched this and despite the fact that its been 20 years since I originally watched this a young kid, I still loved it immensely.The story is fairly simple: a rich, hateful woman inherits a house and hopes to find treasure hidden to get rich quick. She is scared away by Casper the friendly ghost and his three uncles, who are not so friendly.So she hires a psychiatrist, Dr. James Harvey, to exorcise the ghosts. He moves in with his young daughter Kat, who still misses her mother greatly. She is scared at first, but quickly befriends Casper.Watching this movie with a friend was emotional due to the fact that he had lost his wife about 2 years prior to this film being released, so the scenes toward the end with the spirit of Dr. Harvey's wife and Casper, and then her spirit and Dr. Harvey were bittersweet and a little close to home.This was a very good, enjoyable film, and this is coming from someone who also loved the cartoon as a kid. My grade: B.