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Summary: Well..
Review: According to my parents, this is the only movie I would sit and watch when I was a baby. Now I'm 13, and I'm still loving it. I have the VHS, but I think it's as good as it needs to be. David Bowie wasn't even their first choice for the part he played, but seeing anyone else trying to take up the role now would seem highly unnecessary. As a kid, I enjoyed seeing the creatures. As a pre-teen, I enjoyed the creatures and the songs. As a teen, I enjoyed the creatures, the songs, and the special effects (OK, so we've improved over the years, but honestly, for the time, that's great!). If you don't own this, you need to get in touch with your inner-wallet or something. Buy it. Go. Now.
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Summary: SURPRISINGLY GOOD!
Review: In a million years I never would have thought that I would like this movie. I considered it to be a kids movie, afterall there are basically only two people in it: Jennifer Connolly and David Bowie.The rest of the cast is made up of muppets from the Jim Henson studios. And yet, even though I still consider it a kids movie, much like Wizard of Oz, it appeals to all audiences. Sarah (played by Connolly in a very early role), Journeys into a fantasy realm to find her baby brother kidnapped by Bowie, the Goblin King. Along the way, much like Oz, she meets and befriends a host of companions who join her on her quest. Fun, magical, touching...just a very well done movie. I'm sorry they didn't do a little bit more with the DVD version though. It's a bit skimpy on special features.
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Summary: love it!!
Review: I remember watching this movie non stop when I was a child... and now that I'm 18 I still love watching it.. the music is great and david bowie...need I say more...without him the movie prolly wouldn't be as great as it was the first time I saw it.. this movie is just totally awesome for those that love to dream and live in a fantasy world...kind of like mine...lol...
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Summary: Much fun
Review: I must state out front that I am a rabid David Bowie fan. I was dying to see this movie because he is in it, and because I love fantasy and movies that allow me to regress. This is one of those films.
I loved the puppets and whimsical characters (especially Ludo, the caterpillar, and the talking hat). The Escher room, and all the associated stunts, made me jump up and down. And the Labyrinth itself is just COOL.
I thought David Bowie did a great job, conveying a menacing aura, anger, alarm, and a sad longing and loneliness that truly touched me, with great ease. I liked many of the songs (As The World Falls Down in particular). Jennifer Connelly was quite good as Sara.
My complaints are these: Sara's development as a character (learning not to take things for granted, etc.) is really, really obvious--even accounting for little kids. I give great credit to Jennifer Connelly for often managing to overcome the heavy-handed script. I must disagree with others here in terms of the craftsmanship--things often looked cheap and poorly done to me. (Note: I saw this on an old VHS version, and the somewhat poor picture quality might have contributed to that--I assume that corrections are made on the DVD.) Jarreth's wig and frighteningly tight pants were distracting, and, rather than relating to Sarah--as I had expected to, sharing a penchant for fantasy and daydreaming with her--I found myself consistently annoyed by her, wanting to tell her, "I KNOW it's not fair already, now quit wasting time!"
But all of these things are trivial, compared to the fact that this movie entertained me and made me really happy. I am now dying to own it so I can raise any future children on it, since I missed out--and that, more than anything, shows that this movie succeeds in its mission of entertainment, and deserves to be treasured.
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Summary: Got Better and Better...
Review: Got better and better during my first watching of this classic piece of Fantasy. That says much. At first I had very slight feelings that this might turn out to be much more suitable for a 'younger' audience; I'm currently 21 and not interested in child-like shallowness. Fortunately it turned out to work on multiple levels {Oh, this sounds dumb, but I assure you it had little to do with Jennifer, though she's just about ***}.
Very fine movie made with incredible care and knowledge.
Now, I don't know if some parts of this movie were meant to be funny, but I laughed quite a bit. Too many good things to list here, though, but everything with the 'noble' dog-rider was great. The whole feature was a pleasure to watch.
The singing was _not_ distracting, though this was the thing that made me doubt about it all.
Deserves its classic status.
Children will love it, I think.
Have fun!
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Summary: One of my favorite movies of all time
Review: I wouldn't consider myself a "diehard" fan who buys the soundtrack and everything associated with the movie. I only own the movie! I wouldn't say that the acting was great (it's not), but I absolutely love the mixture of fantasy and reality. Jim Henson and LucasArts teamed together to produce a film about a teenager who thinks that nothing is "fair" (she constantly whimpers, "Oh, it's not fair!") who gets a taste of "reality" by going on a fantasy quest to rescue her baby brother who was kidnapped by goblins. She realizes that things are not always what they seem (although I'm certain that special effects are part of this!), and she can't take things for granted. The puppets used (there were many!) were mostly well done, and I think the music is kinda catchy. I don't consider myself a David Bowie fan, and I don't own any of his albums, but the music went along well with the movie. This movie is one of the ultimate fantasy movies of its time.
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Summary: One of the best fantasy movies I've ever seen.
Review: This movie is excellent. The story line is great and shows that sometimes you get what you wish for, so be very careful.
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Summary: It's good, I suppose...
Review: I have to apologize to all the devout fans, but I just can't understand what you find so thrilling in this movie. It's a sweet movie about a girl who goes through the traditional I'm-growing-up-and-learning-to-see-beyond-appearances, and of course a realization of a fantasy for any teenage girl who's ever had to babysit for her little brother. But it's not a fantasy classic. Assuming you're able to ignore the highly strange puppets and realize that there are exactly five humans in this movie, four of whom talk and only two of whom have any role whatsoever, you have to wonder why, if Jareth is so deeply in love with Sarah, he's sending machines to try to kill her and letting her go into danger. And then there's the fundamentally creepy idea of a 30-something Goblin King being in love with a 15- or 16-year-old girl. Maybe I'm missing the deeper meaning in this movie, but I just don't think it lives up to all the hype.
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Summary: Labyrinth: or the Craving for Dissolution
Review: Simmering with age, what are we to make of this peculiar film staring Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie? An adolescent, wrought by the ennui of suburbia - that nascent condition affixed to consciousness itself - conjures, through means of indirect alchemy, a potion to remove the pestilent snivels of her baby brother. Thus the azure-clothed Gblin-King (Bowie) is invoked. By dint of a fey and charming affectation, we are unable to decipher his ambivalent poise. It is only later when we witness the Dionysian revelry, complete with the baby being spun into the air amongst goblins torn from the pages of an arcane grimoire, that his fiendish nature is confirmed. Elsewhere, a deformed goblin - Hogwall - guides Sarah (Connelly) through the dialectical maze that is the Labyrinth. Sarah's estrangement then, like that Orpheus and other impertinent exiles, is one that depends upon the knowledge of her 'otherness' existing elsewhere. Having yet to acquire the means of conjuration herself, thus eloped and with only goblins, dogs, and beasts for friends, and in a room whose exists equate their entrances, the character slides into the melancholy of inertia - hoping too to be consumed by the mendacious sorcerer. Clearly then the Labyrinth is an allegorical Faustus clothed in the sheathes of fantasy and puppetry. Cast into a ravine of nothingness, the baby is expressive of an ideal attainable only through a rejection of the compass and an embracement of the wand. The mere knowledge of things, empirical or otherwise, will not suffice: this is evident from the deceitful nature of the Labyrinth's creatures. Even a map, that instrument of orientation used by lost seers, would not console the heartless Faustus. And Bowie - as flamboyant and rhythmic as Mephistopheles himself - both ambivalent to Faustus (Sarah) and able to device him (her). Fatefully, just as Faustus repents his aspiration of hermetic unity whilst simultaneously craving its sordid conclusions, so Sarah, having finally captured the child, allowing her to return to suburban ennui, leaves the Labyrinth but not without a sense of nostalgie de la boue: and it is perhaps this craving for a lost dissolution that renders the Labyrinth the masterpiece that it is.
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Summary: AWESOME!
Review: If you like fantasy movies then this is the movie for you!! This movie has the perfect blend of music and costumes and characters that you will find in a movie. This movie is at the top of my list of all time favorites and will remain there for a real long time. David Bowie did an excellent job with the music and in his role as the Goblin King. Jennifer Connely is hot and does an excellent job as Sarah in this movie. I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!! and my favorite character in this movie is the large and fluffy LUDO! LUDO for President! HAHA!
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