Finding the title of this old kids movie???

Question

I saw this movie so long ago, but I never knew the title. It was about a real boy who was lonely or sad and then he finds some machine that makes him into a cartoon. He gets a car somehow and goes through a number or math logical town and then the enemy town of letters... does this sound familiar to anyone? In the end he gains more self esteem and turns from cartoon to human (or real boy) form again.

Answer 1

It sounds familiar... but I'm not sure I remember a car or math in the Pagemaster.

Answer 2

The Phantom Tollbooth.

I'm certain.

A boy comes home from school and he's all alone and very bored, and then he finds a huge present in his room. He unwraps it and it is a tollbooth type thing. He goes through it and it turns him into a cartoon, and puts him into a whole new world. There are word and math towns, and a dog named Tock (I believe). It's a wonderful book and movie.

Answer 3

ya know, i'm probably wrong, but the page master is a possibility.