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movies.go.com - : The Pagemaster is a fantasy revolving around Richard Tyler (Macaulay Culkin), a young boy who is afraid of anything and everything. This typecast tyke with glasses cut from the bottom of pop bottles, has a hard time coping with tree houses, bicycles, and night. One day, dad sends him on a short errand to the hardware store. However, the local brats down the street are waiting for him causing him to look for what seems to be an around the world detour. more...
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www.washingtonpost.com - : It's actually the doorway to an animated universe, where some of the best-loved and most-feared characters from children's literature help him discover his strengths and conquer his fears. ''I'm a cartoon!'' shrieks Richard after he is transformed in a dazzling animated sequence that begins with a splash of paint. ''You are an illustration,'' amends the Pagemaster (voiced by Lloyd), a magician who tells Richard to look to the books if he would return to his own world. The boy sets out alone across the animated landscape, but is soon befriended by three frisky tomes come to life: the swashbuckling Adventure (voiced by Patrick Stewart), the wand-wending Fantasy (Whoopi Goldberg) and the hunchbacked Horror (Frank Welker). more...
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