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Labyrinth on DVD (1986)

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Average rating: (75%)
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3.5
 
Starring: David Bowie | Jennifer Connelly | Toby Froud
Director: Jim Henson
Studio: SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time: 97 mins
Certificate: U
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Genres: Children | Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Languages: English
Hearing-impaired: English
Subtitles: Dutch, English, Hindi
Released: 12/05/2003

Brief synopsis of Labyrinth

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.

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Rating of 3 stars out of 5
Radio Times

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.

New York Times

"...A fabulous film...[and] in many ways, a remarkable achievement..."

Variety

"...[Bowie] looks intriguing..."

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Rated - 5 starsDisc details

Someone who's rented it from Midlands, UK , 26/11/2004

Note, this is the Collector's Edition, not the Superbit Edition like in the picture.

Extras are:

*'Inside The Labyrinth': a 'making of' featurette

*Behind the scenes photo gallery

*Character, concept art and vintage poster galleries

*Filmographies

*Storyboard

*Theatrical trailer

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Rated - 5 starsActually, there are both SuperBit and Collector's editions available...

Drew Bolton from eastbourne , 06/05/2005

....but it seems to be pot luck which one you get. See the previous comment for details of the Collector's: the SuperBit may have a better picture (I dunno - not with my cheap telly) but has no extras at all so a bit disappointed there to be honest.

Still the film is the thing - and I can say nothing more than read the reviews. Well worth watching, if only to see David Bowie talking to a grubby Muppet and revel in the retro soundtrack.

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Rated - 5 starsTimeless

James1 from Cheshire , 15/03/2004

I remember being amazed, scared, happy, excited when watching this film as a kid, and watching it with my niece brought back all the memories. OK so the effects aren’t as good as now, but so what!?

A perfect Jim Henderson product with a very good cast and a great soundtrack.

Get this, rent this and watch this with your kids.

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Rated - 3 starsBowie in scary trousers shocker..

Mike Conyard from Gosport, Hampshire , 17/06/2005

My other half insisted we watch this in some kind of effort to re-kindle her childhood.. it's the usual Henson adventure about a young Jennifer Connelly searching for her screaming sibling through a Goblin invested (you guessed it) Labyrinth.. fairly amusing characters and some horrible songs along the way.. Bowie on a bad hair day with some of the most ill advised trousers ever to grace the screen? it all ends happily ever after, though children below the age of 5 may be disturbed by the lack of CGI...

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Rated - 5 starsFANTASTIC MOVIE!!!

5thCenturyKingArthur from Egham , 02/07/2008

What special effects and what a story! The ulitimate adventure and mix of sci-fi and fantasy. Must watch atleast once.

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