Labyrinth

[A Twig]

I watched this film the other night, and while being decidely psychadelic and a bit odd, it was in fact quite interesting I thought, and of course there was David Bowie, and his music as well, who can forget...

"You remind me of the babe, what babe? The babe with the power, what power? The power of the voodoo, who do? You do! Do what? Remind me of the babe!

In all seriousness though, while often dismissed out of hand, it does have some interesting points, about whether people are truly happy in the world they live in, and a child's transition to adulthood.

Just me??

[Dr Sadako]

Classic movie and Bowie is superb.

[ChimpBoy]

I used to go time and time again to watch this at the cine when I was a kid.  I absolutely adore it, even to this day.

Bowie is great - mixing camp whilst at times being quite sinister.  And the songs are, as Twiggy said, great fun. "Dance, magic, dance...."

Maybe Jim Henson's finest moment  

[smilodon]

Labyrinth?  All it needed was a plot. Sarah does this Sarah does that, this happens to her and that happens to her and then she beats Bowie and gets her brother back.

The weakness of so many fantasy films is that in a world where anything can happen, we have no way of building our anticipation. When absolutely anything can face the audience past the next door or around then next corner, then the suspense is lost. If absolutley anything can be real in the films world we loose the ability to imagine what might be about to happen.

Fantasy films like the Rings trilogy work because they are grounded in a real world with real rules. Labyrinth wasn't routed in any sense of reality. It was a world without rules and became a series of interesting set pieces. There was no narrative, no thread binding it all together.

Dark Crystal showed that he could tell a good story if he had a good enough script. Jim Henson clearly was a man with wonderful imagination and incredible talent for creating puppet characters. It just seems he had trouble telling a good story.