Casper: A Spirited Beginning

9/9/1997 1h 30m 5.4/10

Overview

Before he met and befriended the other ghouls at Applegate Manor, friendly ghost Casper meets young Chris Carson, a lonely kid who decides to teach Casper how to be a proper ghost.

Director

Sean McNamara

Top Billed Cast

Shannon Chandler

Jennifer

Steve Guttenberg

Tim Carson

Rodney Dangerfield

Johnny Hunt

Lori Loughlin

Sheila Fistergraff

Jeremy Foley

Casper (voice)

Brendon Ryan Barrett

Chris Carson

Reviews

r96sk

1/24/2022

4/10

<em>'Casper: A Spirited Beginning'</em> is rather rubbish, not that that is of any surprise. It's a stripped back version of the original in every way possible, with the animation - which, admittedly, isn't the greatest in the 1995 release - particularly standing out as being awful. The cast are OK, if entirely forgettable - perhaps with the exceptions of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_McGill" rel="nofollow">Chuck McGill</a>, Michael McKean, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Lion_King_(franchise)_characters#:~:text=and%20kill%20him.-,Mufasa,-%5Bedit%5D" rel="nofollow">Mufasa</a>, James Earl Jones. Let's see what <em>'Casper Meets Wendy'</em> cobbles together...