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...takes no sorcerer's power to realize that this other land is one small leap of the imagination from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, and that Jen's adventures will frequently echo the Hobbit Frodo Baggins' in The Lord of the Rings. As narrative, the incidents in The Dark Crystal are unremarkable; as the excuse for special effects, fanciful decor and eccentric characters, they do nicely enough. Here, as in such ambitious films as Blade Runner and Diva, texture is more important than text. The slow funeral procession of Mystics across an undulating desert; the Skeksis...
...what it takes. Although Unicorn contains some innovatively clever characters, the piece as a whole lacks the fluidity of images, the magnificance of each character's movements, and the timelessness of plot that give Walt Disney productions their eternal appeal. Like other recent endeavors to animate fantasy books--Tolkien's The Hobbit, for example--the adaptation of Peter S. Beagle's novel The Last Unicorn fails to capture through animation all the intricacies of plot and description usually woven by words...
Known by the misleadingly modest title of Legislative Strategy Group (L.S.G.), the brain trust that has coalesced around Chief of Staff James Baker, 54, has become the Tolkien ring of power in the White House. The group does not appear on any of the detailed charts drawn during the transition by Counsellor Edwin Meese, 50, to map the flow of White House authority. Rather, it was conceived shortly after the Inauguration by Baker's deputy, Richard Darman, 39, to coordinate the passage of Reagan's economic program. "It was important that everyone in the Administration knew there...
...trouble is that Graves' zeal to overcome glass-box monotony has led him into the increasingly popular, mystic fantasy world that is populated by Tolkien's hobbits, Dungeons & Dragons, sundry comic-strip characters, and the likes of the rubbery movie star E.T. It is a world that is almost beyond beauty or ugliness; almost, because the Portland Building is ugly. Unfortunately, Graves' irrational games have electrified architecture students everywhere, and they are now imitating him. He has become their Pied Piper...
...decent citizen in movies over the past three decades. And the sociopathic superman has emerged to defend them in distinguished westerns (John Ford's The Searchers) and easterns (Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo). What Miller has done here is create a milieu as dense and tangy as Tolkien's Middle Earth or Céline's demimonde. This is Australia as the Down Underworld, where character is revealed in the gradations between good and awful. Drawn in vivid cartoon strokes, this menagerie can be funny or heroic or scary...