The Neverending Story which is only 1 hour and 42 minutes long.
Helped by a memorable title song. This was director Wolfgang Petersen's follow up to the Oscar winning Das Boot.
At the time. This was the most expensive European produced special effects laden movie made.
Although one movie critic in 1984 did ponder just where did the special effects money go to. The reason is that Petersen took a different approach to animatronics and visual effects from his Hollywood counterparts.
Bastian (Barret Oliver) is small boy in America being raised by his father. His mother has just died and he is being bullied at school.
One day while fleeing the bullies. Bastian enters a bookshop where the owner shows him a book called The Neverending Story.
Bastian takes the book reads the story of the magical kingdom of Fantasia. It is being destroyed by the Nothing as the childlike Empress who rules it has has fallen ill.
It is up to the young warrior Atreyu to save Fantasia and he needs the help of a human child.
This is a slightly dark fantasy film with less emphasis on cutesy kids. It has a touch of Jim Henson's Creature Workshop about it with the visual effects.
It does lack humour and some sparkle to make it truly imaginative. Although the special effects have now aged, it is also now regarded as an 1980s classic fantasy film.
Helped by a memorable title song. This was director Wolfgang Petersen's follow up to the Oscar winning Das Boot.
At the time. This was the most expensive European produced special effects laden movie made.
Although one movie critic in 1984 did ponder just where did the special effects money go to. The reason is that Petersen took a different approach to animatronics and visual effects from his Hollywood counterparts.
Bastian (Barret Oliver) is small boy in America being raised by his father. His mother has just died and he is being bullied at school.
One day while fleeing the bullies. Bastian enters a bookshop where the owner shows him a book called The Neverending Story.
Bastian takes the book reads the story of the magical kingdom of Fantasia. It is being destroyed by the Nothing as the childlike Empress who rules it has has fallen ill.
It is up to the young warrior Atreyu to save Fantasia and he needs the help of a human child.
This is a slightly dark fantasy film with less emphasis on cutesy kids. It has a touch of Jim Henson's Creature Workshop about it with the visual effects.
It does lack humour and some sparkle to make it truly imaginative. Although the special effects have now aged, it is also now regarded as an 1980s classic fantasy film.