Decades later, this film can only be watched for two things: the triumph of practical special effects, now dead, and the titular actors. David Bowie, who nightmares Jennifer Connelly – such a thrash even deliberately not to think of. And the content is very bad. First of all, it is a blueprint from Alice in Wonderland, absolutely obvious
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Decades later, this film can only be watched for two things: the triumph of practical special effects, now dead, and the titular actors. David Bowie, who nightmares Jennifer Connelly – such a thrash even deliberately not to think of. And the content is very bad. First of all, it is a blueprint from Alice in Wonderland, absolutely obvious and impudent, right in the forehead: the girl walks through the surreal world and communicates with evil forces, crazy and completely harmless, and in the end she drains the black lord into the light. Second, a couple of years before that, Endless Story came out, and that film was much stronger both technically and morally. The labyrinth against the background of these sources is perceived only as plagiarism and a completely secondary work. Although the chain of copying here rather just started - in 1995 came out "Jumanji", in 1999 - "Lost in the dungeon", in 2002 was written "Coralina", and in 2008 filmed. This is all a resale of the same Lewis Carroll story, under which everyone who is not lazy continues to put their signature. To put it simply, did I like the movie in itself? No, there are only two actors and a bunch of dolls – that is, this is the alpha version of thrash Lazyaevo. Bowie used the film as a venue for stage reprise, inserting his own songs into it, but if you know English or at least read the subtitles, you’ll find that they have nothing to do with what’s happening. For example, when he scares a girl on the stairs, he sings that he cannot live without her, and she has cruel eyes. That's crazy. It's embarrassing to watch. None of this makes sense. The abilities of the characters change completely randomly - then the dwarf is emphatically ordinary, or else he has the courage to destroy the robot, in the end he generally moves freely between worlds. How? Why doesn't the goblin king look like a goblin? Why would a girl destroy him with words from a play? Where did she get the text of such a non-random play? All bewilderment and kringe, not for the modern sophisticated viewer.
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