I would expect Jim Henson to turn out something good, and "Labyrinth" doesn't disappoint. I would venture to call it a fantasy in the more accurate sense of the term. It's not one of these disgustingly cutesy movies that tries to pass itself as fantasy while essentially serving as a 90-minute commercial. There's a lot of mind-bending logic at work in the movie, as teenager Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) has to rescue her baby brother from the king of the goblins (David Bowie) after she accidentally wished for the goblins to take the boy away.
Despite a few less than realistic lines that they give Connelly, some scenes in the movie are really impressive. There is of course the continually-changing maze that she has to navigate, but there's also an instance of Knights and Knaves, and even a room based on M.C. Escher's lithograph "Relativity". And of course, there's a number of Muppet-like characters, although they're a little more grotesque here.
All in all, it's a very impressive piece of work. A-maze-ing, one might say.
Despite a few less than realistic lines that they give Connelly, some scenes in the movie are really impressive. There is of course the continually-changing maze that she has to navigate, but there's also an instance of Knights and Knaves, and even a room based on M.C. Escher's lithograph "Relativity". And of course, there's a number of Muppet-like characters, although they're a little more grotesque here.
All in all, it's a very impressive piece of work. A-maze-ing, one might say.