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Squire Flicker's Adventures of The Pagemaster.
Squire Flicker's Adventures of The Pagemaster is another movie created by Frogadier55. It was released on Archive.org on August 5th, 2024 in the honor of the real film's 30th anniversary.
Plot[]
Pessimistic Richard Tyler (Macaulay Culkin) lives life based on statistics and fears everything. His exasperated parents (Ed Begley, Jr. and Mel Harris) have tried multiple ways to build up the courage of their son, but to little success. Richard is sent to buy a bag of nails for building a treehouse. However, Richard gets caught in a harsh thunderstorm and takes shelter in a library. He meets Mr. Dewey (Christopher Lloyd), an eccentric librarian who gives him a library card, despite Richard's protests he doesn't want a book, since he's only there to escape the storm. Searching for a phone, Richard finds a large rotunda painted with famous literary characters. He slips on some water dripping from his coat and falls down, knocking himself out. Richard awakens to find the rotunda art melting, which washes over him and the library, turning them into illustrations.
He is met by the Pagemaster (Christopher Lloyd), who sends him through the fiction section to find the library's exit. Along the way, Richard befriends three anthropomorphic books: Adventure (Patrick Stewart), a swashbuckling pirate-like book; Fantasy (Whoopi Goldberg), a sassy but caring fairy tale book; and Horror (Frank Welker), a fearful "Hunchbook" with a misshapen spine. The three agree to help Richard if he checks them out. Together, the quartet encounter classic-fictional characters. They meet Dr. Jekyll(Leonard Nimoy) who turns into Mr. Hyde, driving them to the open waters of the Land of Adventure. However, the group is separated after Moby-Dick attacks, following the whale's battle with Captain Ahab (George Hearn). Richard and Adventure are picked up by the Hispaniola, captained by Long John Silver (Jim Cummings). The pirates go to Treasure Island, but find no treasure, nearly causing a mutiny. Fantasy and Horror return and defeat the pirates. Silver attempts taking Richard with him, but surrenders when Richard threatens him with a sword. By the time Adventure insulted Horror, it caused the hunchbook to get captured by Lilliputians from Gulliver's Travels. Adventure saves him and they make up.
In the fantasy section, Richard sees the exit sign on the top of a mountain. However, Adventure's bumbling awakens a dormantdragon. Richard tries to fight the dragon with a sword and shield, but the dragon swallows him. Richard finds books in the dragon's stomach and uses a beanstalk from the Jack and the Beanstalk to escape. He and the books use it to reach the exit. They enter a large dark room where the Pagemaster awaits them. Richard berates the Pagemaster for the horrors he has suffered, but the Pagemaster reveals the journey was intended to make Richard face his fears. Dr. Jekyll, Captain Ahab, Long John Silver and the Dragon reappear in a magical twister congratulating him. The Pagemaster then swoops Richard and the books into the twister, sending them back to the real world.
Richard awakens, finding Adventure, Fantasy, and Horror next to him as real books. Mr. Dewey finds him, and, even though the library policy only allows a person to check out two books at time, lets him check out all three books "just this once." When Richard leaves, Mr. Dewey gives a smile, hinting that Richard's entire adventure was not a dream and that he is the Pagemaster; adding onto this possibility is that Richard was missing his jacket when he awoke.
Richard returns home a braver kid, sleeping in his new treehouse. Adventure, Fantasy, and Horror appear as silhouettes on a wall as Fantasy creates a "night light." Adventure says a kiss would make the ending good, yelling in anger when Horror does so instead of Fantasy.
Trivia[]
- Eddie Storkowitz, Tommy Turkey, Sleepy Bat, Gregory Woodpecker, Danger Rangers, Bibi Blocksberg, Yugi Moto, Seto Kaiba, Joey Wheeler, Tristan Taylor, Téa Gardner, Bakura Ryou, Mai Valentine and Mokuba Kaiba guest stars in this film.
- This film will be dedicated to the loving memory of Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015), who voiced Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in the real film and died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and James Horner (1953-2015), who composed the music score and songs for The Pagemaster and died in a plane crash.
- Blazing Dragons and Birdz were both produced by Nelvana.
- Due to brief language, Adventure will say "Blooming" instead of "Bloody" and Captain Ahab will call Moby Dick "darned" instead of the D word.
Transcript[]
Squire Flicker's Adventures of The Pagemaster/Transcript
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Cast[]
- Edward Glen as Squire Flicker
- Stephanie Morgenstern as Princess Flame
- Aron Tager as King Allfire
- Steven Sutcliffe as Queen Griddle
- Juan Chioran as Sir Loungelot
- Richard Binsley as Sir Blaze
- John Stocker as Sir Burnevere
- Richard Waugh as Sir Galahot/Cinder and Clinker
- Dan Hennessey as Sir Hotbreath
- Susan Roman as Eddie Storkowitz
- Adam Reid as Tommy Turkey
- Julie Lemieux as Sleepy Bat
- Rick Jones as Gregory Woodpecker
- Jerry Houser as Sully the Seal
- Grey Griffin as Kitty the Cat
- Kevin Michael Richardson as Burble the Bear
- Rob Paulsen as Squeeky the Mouse
- Mark Hamill as Burt the Turtle
- Tasia Valenza as Gabriela
- John Kassir as Fallbot
- Britt McKillip as Bibi Blocksberg
- Dan Green as Yugi Moto/Yami Yugi
- Eric Stuart as Seto Kaiba
- Wayne Grayson as Joey Wheeler
- Greg Abbey as Tristan Taylor
- Amy Birnbaum as Téa Gardner
- Ted Lewis as Bakura Ryou
- Megan Hollingshead as Mai Valentine
- Tara Jayne as Mokuba Kaiba
- Macaulay Culkin as Richard Tyler
- Christopher Lloyd as Mr. Dewey, The Pagemaster
- Ed Begley Jr. and Mel Harris as Alan and Claire Tyler
- Patrick Stewart as Adventure
- Whoopi Goldberg as Fantasy
- Frank Welker as Horror, the dragon, Moby Dick, and the other creatures.
- Leonard Nimoy as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- George Hearn as Captain Ahab
- Jim Cummings as Long John Silver: The ruthless usurper Captain of the Hispaniola.
- Phil Hartman as Tom Morgan: A slender and violent pirate on the Hispaniola.
- Ed Gilbert as George Merry: An obese and ugly pirate on the Hispaniola.
- Richard Erdman as Pirate 1
- Fernando Escandon as Pirate 2
- Robert Picardo as Pirate 3
- Dorian Harewood as Jamaican Pirate
- B.J. Ward as The Queen of Hearts