Magic Lantern Theater and The Tannery Pub

Fabulous movie theater. Comfortable tiered seating, love the balcony (beer delivered to your seat!). Reasonable prices for movie and the freshly popped corn!
Pub food menu is what you’d expect, but it is well prepared, as ordered, good portions, excellent service. Great place to watch the game, huge screen, no bad seats. For a «dinner and a movie» night — the Magic Lantern and Tannery pub can’t be beat.

I didn’t eat food at this place. I did attend a movie and took advantage of have an adult beverage served to me in the balcony during the movie. It took over 35 minutes to bring the beer up a flight of stairs. I believe if I did not go down to inquire after 35 minutes, I may still be waiting. The staff never offer to apologize or ask if there was anything they could do to smooth over there lack of service. I was told it was on the tray and would be there soon. I told the person I order a beer at 7pm and its now 7;35. Nothing. I told her that several folks have come after us and received their orders. Nothing. I will never recommend the Tannery to anyone. Shitty service with a shitty attitude.

We had a horrible experience at this theater! First off, this is a very small theater and not worth the money, quality is poor. The staff was so incredibly rude and belligerent! It honestly seemed like the theater attendent had a mental problem where he gets off on tormenting customers! He acted completely crazy and scared the bejesus out of me and my 3 kids! Kids had feet on back of seat and for this they threw us out of the theater! Not on top of seat mind you and not bothering anyone as there was no one sitting in the row in front of us! They were just resting feet on back of seat like they do in every movie we ever go to, the attendent threw us out and screamed at us. When I complained to ownership, not only wouldn’t he listen to my complaint, he asked us never to come back! Trust me! We won’t!!!

RUDEST people I have ever met! Ever! I had water bottles in my back pack. That’s not allowed. Totally get that. So I took them out of my bag and put them in the car. Paid for cups of water. Whatever. Kept my back pack with diapers and wipes in it. The rude manager waited for me outside the bathroom and said I couldn’t have outside water. «Ok. No problem. I already took them to my car.» Then 5 minutes later she walks into the movie. YELLS and points her finger «that back pack needs to go NOW!» Wow lady! Never coming here again. My children were scared and I felt violated and would have left if my kids weren’t so excited to see the movie.
Ps. Christian M: please stop creeping on my phone weirdo!

The Tannery Pub:
We came here for our kids’ last night before sleep away camp hoping to get a decent last meal together and unfortunately had a bad experience. The menu was not up-​to-​date doe food or beer/​wine. The waitstaff was fine, but the food leaves much to be desired. The nachos were just alright. The meat eaters liked the pulled Pork on the nachos because it wasn’t «saucy».
Then the problem occurred-​they forgot my my son’s burger, but delivered the rest of our food. They rushed his burger and although he ordered it medium well, they served it less than rare. It was bloody and probably still cold inside. They comped his meal because we had to leave at that point. I talked to the manager and we got 20% more off due to our «unenjoyable» meal.
Overall, service was fine, food that was delivered on time was ok, but overall experience was not so great. Nice big screen to watch the Sox game on though.
In Maine, stick to a lobstah pound.

Cool little theater in the heart of Bridgton. Revamped a couple of years ago, so not quite as cozy as before, but It still has an old school theater feel with modern comforts and seating. Complete with a bar and happy hour, its definitely worth checking out.

Beautiful theatre
Has a historic feel and helpful staff. Good service and clean environment. Didn’t use the balcony for drinks but went up to see it and it’s great if you want a drink and not be surrounded by kids. Can’t comment on the food since I only had coffee which was average.

Love the Magic Lantern and Tannery Pub. We visit often as the movie theater has comfortable seats, leg room, decent prices and the 21+ balcony. The Tannery pub has the large screen and we enjoy going to see our favorite sports teams play. The food is good — especially the nachos! Burgers and Chicken sandwiches are what we typically buy and are all very good. Bar and beer selections are sufficient Service is good and the place is clean and inviting. Sometimes getting your food quickly can be challenging when they are busy, but they are always accommodating to try and make up for it. Nothing but good things to say about this establishment.

This review is just for the Tannery Pub side of things, as I didn’t see a separate Unilocal entry for it.
I’d been to the Magic Lantern before, last time was in 1979… so it had been a while, as well as a new building. They did a great job rebuilding the place and creating the Tannery Pub.
We were interested in some decent food and to watch the Patriots and Red Sox games. The Tannery Pub was setup nicely with their 23 foot HDTV setup on the Pats game, and a nice 50 inch HDTV on the wall with the Red Sox game.
Since we showed up at game time, it took a while to get a seat in the pub (the porch had seating, but no TV’s). The staff was obviously short as the waiters/​waitresses were doing triple duty as host/​hostess, busing tables, seating guests and taking orders/​delivering drinks/​food. We gathered our order for one big hit, as we knew the waiter was busy and planned to stay at least until the 3^rd quarter.
Ok, on to the food. Ordered the Ultimate Nachos for an app and they were GREAT! Had a Sea Dog Blueberry beer with fresh blueberries in it. Nicely done! for my entrée, I had the Black and Bleu burger, medium and it was VERY tasty. Just as ordered.
My sister had the Lobster Roll, and we both also ordered sweet iced tea. She enjoyed the roll, but neither of us enjoyed the sweet iced tea (Nestea mix?).
Service was as good as can be expected with the place full and only 2 waitresses and 1 waiter. They did have a Help Wanted sign up. ;)
I’ll be back!

Went here because we had a gift card and boy are we glad! We will be back! We didnt get a chance to enjoy the tavern as it was reservations only (valentine’s day) but it looked wonderful, sit in the balcony and enjoy a tasty beverage with your movie!

Very cool place! Check it out!

The Magic Lantern Theater is an amazing complex of theaters along with a café restaurant. No expense was spared in the design and construction of this complex. Hard to believe that such a facility could exist in this small Maine town. You have to experience it to blieve it.

this place is awesome! all movie theaters should be like this. It’s a super cute place, feels really clean and new but also colorful and interesting. pub is nice, had a good beer (Shipyard, I think) and excellent Pineland Farms burger in the pub before our movie and then got a $ 1.50 grab bag of sweets and watched our movie from the balcony seats. I like the quirky antique-​shop decorations (esp. dig the suit of armor in the pub) and general vibe is way funner than the normal movies, PLUS the movie tickets are $ 6! I plan on only watching movies at the Magic Lantern from now on.

Tons of great memories at this movie theater. I was thrilled to come back recently and see that it had been rebuilt and reopened. Also, conveniently located near Reny’s.

Love it my favorite movie theater. The best. When my kids are watching a crap movie i can run out and chug a beer in the bar with a projection screen.

I grew up in Naples, just a town over from Bridgton, and the Magic Lantern used to be a great inexpensive movie theater in the center of bridgton. Throughout my childhood I saw a great number of first-​run movies there, and always enjoyed it. Recently I was back in Maine and had the opportunity to go back to the Magic Lantern after it had been rebuilt and redesigned.
The ladyfriend and I decided to take in a 7pm showing of Where the Wild Things Are and grab a bite to eat in their new pub. The redesign is gorgeous, it’s classy and old-​fashioned and has a great hometown feel. The theater we were in was beautiful with excellent décor, and even had balcony seating! The pub area was well-​designed, comfortable, and had great service. The food was just standard pub fare, but the beer was predominantly local — which is great!
The movie tickets were under $ 7 a piece, and snacks were around $ 3, and a medium soda (the huge movie variety medium) was only $ 3 as well. It’s impossible to get these kinds of prices at most theaters.
It was cute, well-​priced, and in great condition. If I still lived in Maine I’d go all the time! The Magic Lantern isn’t what it used to be, it’s better! If you’re in the Bridgton area it’s definitely worth a stop in. The food in the pub won’t bowl you over, but everything else will.