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Labyrinth
1986
Jennifer Connelly plays Sarah, a young woman who wishes her baby brother would be taken away by goblins. She gets her wish and now she must rescue him by going through the forbidding passages of a magical labyrinth to reach the castle of the mighty Goblin-King. A delightful rescue movie penned by Monty Python's Terry Jones and .. Read more
| Starring | David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud |
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| Director | Jim Henson |
| Genres | Children, Family, Music/Musical, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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Labyrinth
Jennifer Connelly plays Sarah, a young woman who wishes her baby brother would be taken away by goblins. She gets her wish and now she must rescue him by going through the forbidding passages of a magical labyrinth to reach the castle of the mighty Goblin-King. A delightful rescue movie penned by Monty Python's Terry Jones and starring a campy David Bowie as the Goblin King, LABYRINTH is directed by the Muppet's own Jim Henson, whose team provide the goblin creatures, so who could fail to be transported to this magical adventure world of goblins.
| Starring | David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud |
|---|---|
| Director | Jim Henson |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 37 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 41 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Eighties Greats |
| Genres | Children, Family, Music/Musical, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Dutch, English, Hindi Blu-ray: Dutch, Hindi, Norwegian, Finnish, French, German, English, Danish, Swedish, Arabic, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 12 May 2003 Blu-ray: 31 Aug 2009 Production year: 1986 |
| Format | DVD |
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Critics' reviews (3)
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The Muppet team go into “Alice in Wonderland” territory as babysitter Jennifer Connelly wishes her younger brother into the Goblin King's clutches and has only hours to rescue him from a castle maze. With plenty of fuzzball gremlins, cute sugar plum fairies and clumsy Hoggle the dwarf to keep the children amused (adults will laugh at David Bowie's Tina Turner wig for entirely different reasons!), Jim Henson's panto Monty Python (written by clan member Terry Jones) is weak on suspense and thrills, but still emerges as firm fantasy fun.
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"...A fabulous film...[and] in many ways, a remarkable achievement..."
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25 out of 29 people found this review helpful
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be
Surely most people renting this will have fond nostalgic memories of this from watching it first time round in the '80s. The bad news is that this film has aged badly, very badly. My son said of David Bowie 'that man is ugly, and he can't sing.' Indeed. The fact is, that contemporary family movies such as Shrek and the Pixar films have raised the bar far higher than this muppettry.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
fab
the one to watch me and my children love this film and the songs in it are great, i saw this film as a child and was in love with it and now my children also they want me to buy for them
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Bowie's son: 'I want to direct my dad - but not yet'
- 23 Jun 2009
David Bowie's son Duncan Jones is keen to direct his famous father in one of his future big screen projects - but only when he feels he is fully competent as a filmmaker. Jones, who was born Zowie Bowie, has wowed critics with his directorial debut, tense space drama Moon, which hits cinemas at the end of June (09). Despite expressing his desire to cast his dad, who has acted in movies including Labyrinth and The Man Who Fell To Earth, he insists he won't do it until he has made a name for... Read more
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