Dragonkeeper vs Five Children and It

Dragonkeeper has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 5.6/10 for Five Children and It). Five Children and It is the shorter watch at 1h 28m compared with 1h 39m. Five Children and It is the older of the two (2004 against 2024). Both are adventure, family, fantasy movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Dragonkeeper posterDragonkeeper2024 VS Five Children and It posterFive Children and It2004
DragonkeeperFive Children and It
Audience score★ 7.7/10★ 5.6/10
Year20242004
Length1h 39m1h 28m
GenresAction, Adventure, Animation, Family, FantasyAdventure, Family, Fantasy
Country–France
DirectorJian-Ping Li, Salvador SimóJohn Stephenson
Main castLucía Pérez, Mario Gas, Fernando Castro, Carlos de Luna, José Gómez AdánFreddie Highmore, Zoë Wanamaker, Kenneth Branagh, Eddie Izzard, Jonathan Bailey

Synopsis

Dragonkeeper

Set in Han Imperial China, the plot follows the adventures of enslaved girl Ping with ancient dragon Long Danzi. Dragons had been banished from the kingdom. Ping, an orphan, finds one of the last remaining dragon eggs. Palace guards force Ping to run away in order to return the dragon egg to the ocean and save all dragons from extinction. Ping discovers that she is a true Dragonkeeper.

Five Children and It

A Psammead is 'It', an ancient, irritable, ugly sand fairy, which five children find one day in a gravel pit. As a reward for finding him, It grants the children one wish a day, the results of which will last until sunset.

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