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The Neverending Story
1984
A boy who needs a friend finds a world that needs a hero in a land beyond imagination! Read more
| Starring | Barret Oliver, Gerald McRaney, Noah Hathaway, Tami Stronach |
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| Director | Wolfgang Petersen |
| Genres | Children, Family, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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The Neverending Story
A boy who needs a friend finds a world that needs a hero in a land beyond imagination!
| Starring | Barret Oliver, Gerald McRaney, Noah Hathaway, Tami Stronach |
|---|---|
| Director | Wolfgang Petersen |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 32 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 34 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Children, Family, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Released | DVD: 18 Aug 2008 Blu-ray: 22 Mar 2010 Production year: 1984 |
| Format | DVD |
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29 out of 29 people found this review helpful
The Neverending Story
The Neverending Story' is a model for children's entertainment in the 1980's. The biggest moral to the story was that children should read more books. So often today, children's entertainment focuses on making a statement.
'The Neverending Story' was wonderful, full of fantasy and imagination. The story of a little boy named Bastian who borrowed a magical book from a small, old book store and whose imagination in the story doesn't realize until the end that he's a part of the story and the human boy that Atreyu is looking for is him.
There are no hard core issues to this story. No underlying reason for making the film beyond pure entertainment. During a time when a kid could be a kid and innocence was a virtue in film making. A movie that influenced kids that they could be whatever they dreamed.
The cast couldn't of been better. Every actor and actress filled their role perfectly and beautifully and every voice for non-human actors was perfect. Beautifully done, 'The Neverending Story' is one of the best movies of all time. -
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6 out of 10 people found this review helpful
Cute but not fantastic
I know I won't win any friends for writing this review but I was a little disappointed with this film.
I somehow never saw this film as a kid, but I remember my school friends talking about it as something wonderful.
This is also one of my favourite types of films, I love The Dark Crystal, The Princess Bride; and Labyrinth is in my top ten. But somehow this film didn't live up to them or my expectations.
I always thought it must be a magical film; how else could it be never-ending?! A bit of a misleading title, it turns out, and thank goodness because I couldn?t have coped with a longer running time. The story was very slight and simple and at times almost painfully boring to watch. I also found the animatronics characters mostly annoying instead of charming; this is with the exception of the white furry dragon, which was gorgeous and totally perfect, and the rock-eater who was amusing.
What I found more interesting were the sections that focused on the human boy?s reactions as he read the story throughout the day and night, without wanting to stop to go home, eat, or sleep. I can certainly relate to that, as I love being immersed in a great book. It is a great theme, and I certainly wouldn?t swap it with some horror like Pokemon the movie!
Anyway I guess I may have left it too late to watch it for the first time and I'm sure kids will continue to love it. So don?t get me wrong I don?t hate this film, I just didn?t overly like it either. (Just don?t get me started on the sequel!). -
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Leonardo DiCaprio's firm to develop NeverEnding Story remake?
- 26 Feb 2009
Leonard DiCaprio's shingle Appian Way is in discussions with Warner Bros to develop the latest film in the NeverEnding Story saga. The studio acquired the rights to the property and a remake of the 25-year-old movie is on the cards. Wolfgang Petersen directed the original fantasy tale, which saw a boy called Bastian Balthazar Bux discover a parallel world which is crumbling as people in the real world become less imaginative. It has since spawned two sequels, the second of which debuted in the... Read more
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Neverending Story, The - BLU-RAY Version
In director Wolfgang Petersen's charming fantasy, Bastian (Barrett Oliver), a lonely schoolboy alienated from his father and bullied by his classmates, retreats to an attic where he becomes engrossed in a book entitled THE NEVERENDING STORY. It is the tale of a magical kingdom appropriately named ...
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The Neverending Story
A boy who needs a friend finds a world that needs a hero in a land beyond imagination!...
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