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Fifteen-year-old Sarah resents her baby brother Toby and secretly wishes that he will just disappear. Her wish comes true when goblins kidnap the boy. Feeling responsible and guilty about his abduction, she sets forth to retrieve him, and finds herself on the adventure of a lifetime. To rescue her brother, she must sneak into .. 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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Fifteen-year-old Sarah resents her baby brother Toby and secretly wishes that he will just disappear. Her wish comes true when goblins kidnap the boy. Feeling responsible and guilty about his abduction, she sets forth to retrieve him, and finds herself on the adventure of a lifetime. To rescue her brother, she must sneak into the castle of the Goblin King, which is in the center of a fantastical labyrinth. But, the task is easier said than done, for the maze is filled with strange creatures and mind-bending puzzles, and nothing is really as it seems.
| 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 | English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | Dutch, English, Hindi |
| Released | DVD: 12 May 2003 Blu-ray: 31 Aug 2009 Production year: 1986 |
| Format | DVD |
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.
"...A fabulous film...[and] in many ways, a remarkable achievement..."
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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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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