Written By- Terry Jones
Starring- David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud
Critics Review- "The plot maybe old and the music dated, but Henson's creatures are timeless."- James Plath "Movie Metropolis"
Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 62% Audience- 85%
Out a possible of 5 stars- 3 stars
My Review-
Bowie, Henson, and Connelly! what more could you ask for in the this movie? Jim Henson has been known for creating The Muppets, one of the most well known puppets in the world. Here he creates a world where a young girl has to travel through a labyrinth to save her infant brother, along the way she meets and befriends different creatures. This movie was recommend to me by some friends and a teacher, and since I basically never heard of it or seen it before I decided to watch it today. One of the reasons why I enjoyed this movie was because of the puppeteering from Jim Henson and all the other people that worked on the puppets that did a really good job for the time that this movie was released. Even though it was some what of a musical to me some of the songs did not need to be in the movie, even though there wasn't a lot of them, it still could have done with a little less. Also for being only her fourth film I thought she did a good job for being the main character in the movie. During the movie i found myself really liking some of the creatures she met along the way to finding castle, mainly the creature Ludo. This is one of those movies from the 80s that is almost like a hidden gem and it will never get old, it seems like when Henson made this movie he was doing something that he loved, with something he loved and he wanted to give us something more than The Muppets and he did. He gave us the creatures of the Labyrinth, that will we can possibly never get tired of, just like he did with The Muppets.
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