Word: fantasia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prehistory now, and nothing ages as fast as futurism. So it seems anachronistic for David Lynch, the gifted eccentric whose only previous features were the $20,000 Eraserhead and the $5 million The Elephant Man, to spend some $50 million (not another one!) bringing Herbert's mammoth fantasia to the screen. And more than a little confusing to those mortals who have not memorized the book. For Herbert devised not just a teeming universe but the rudiments of several new languages, and Lynch works hard to squeeze the novel's richness and oddness into 2½ hours. Dune...
Predictably, Bastian steals the book and sneaks off to read it. Inside he finds the story of Atreyu's quest to save Fantasia from the Nothing, a terrible force that threatens the fictional world from all sides. Bastian gets caught up in the story and soon finds himself mysteriously cropping up in what he reads; at one exciting moment he screams and immediately reads of Atreyu cringing at the sound. Bastian is drawn in more and more, eventually playing a pivotal role at the story's climax...
...SUMMER video replacement for kids under 10. The Neverending Story is terrific. Fantasia is inhabited by dozens of strange and wondrous beings created with state-of-the-art special effects. The flying dragon and huge stone eater make the Star Wars aliens look like extras in a latenight Japanese horror movie. Unfortunately, these outstanding visual effects mostly appear in the first 20 minutes. After that, the audience sees a lot of deserted beaches, a crumbling temple and an asteroid belt...
...movie's message, pushing dreaming and mental exploration, is undeniably one children need to be reminded of, but it is so baldly stated as to be almost insulting. You see, Fantasia is the world of limitless human imagination, but it is crumbling to nothingness because people are reluctant to dream and wonder. And as people stop imagining, the Nothing will claim even more territory, in conjunction with the evil forces of those who seize power by stamping out free thought. So kids, stay away from those video games, read a good book or two, and dare to dream...
...Welch's grape-jelly jar. Three bullies from school beat him up and make him jump in a trash bin. A total loser. Then he goes up into the school attic and starts reading this book, and it sort of pulls him into the Land of Fantasia. I mean, he's the one who controls the gate of the people in the book. And they are really weird people too. There's a flying dragon and a two-faced woman and figures like the chessmen you have in the den, Dad, and a handsome boy warrior...