GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Haven Kaycee It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

minofyre-79828 Many Years ago, Charity Dawn Cook/smith/mcpharlain suggested this movie. I didn't see it until last year. What a sucky movie! I dont see what anyone saw in it. I saw it once and gave it away to someone else. emily got it.

david-sarkies What was interesting about this film is that I was forever comparing it with A Neverending Story, and one of the things that I didn't like about the Neverending Story was that while that had some rather interesting characters in Fantasia, the entire story was focused around a single person (or actually two), and pretty much everybody else disappeared into the background. This is not the case with Labyrinth as even though we have one major character, as she treks through the maze she picks up a number of friends so that at the ends there is a rather disparate group wondering around the domain. While I should have made a note on the Atrieu's lack of companions in my review of A Neverending Story, it wasn't something that I picked up until now. There is so much to love about this film, and in fact it is one of those films that, despite being a creation of Jim Henson, it has attractions to both children and adults (which is another thing that makes it stand out from the previous film I watched where the main character is a 'little boy'). Well, there are still a lot of elements to the film that would relate more to children than to adults, and the major aspect would easily be the use of muppets - back in the eighties, much in the way that cartoons were generally considered to be for children, so were muppets (even though I suspect that there is a decent amount of adult humour in The Muppets, if my Dad's reactions were anything to go by). However, watching this film now (and having finally getting around to watching it after having it sit one a table for over a year), I suddenly realised how much I missed with this film when I was younger. Okay, I wasn't a huge Bowie fan back then, so having him as the major character did put me off, that is until I came to appreciate his skill as a singer, and an actor (though he doesn't make all that many appearances in film). The thing that struck me the most about this film is how enigmatic Bowie actually is, and even though he is the villain, he has an appeal that not many villainous characters actually have. Moreso, he has a way in which he won't necessarily send his minions to do his dirty work, but rather appear himself to deliver a message directly. Then there is Jim Henson's muppets - they have a nature that not many other fantasy and science-fiction shows replicate. Well, there is Star Wars and Lucas' famous Cantina scenes, but Henson seems to follow this trend here were each of his muppets have something clearly unique about them. We aren't talking about a bunch of mindless clones, but rather a unique individual, even if we are in a situation were the characters are being swarmed by an army of goblins. The amount of time an energy that went into creating each of the characters in this film must have been incredible. The final thing I wish to touch upon is how this film would have been a fantasy roleplayer's dream. Once again I never picked it when I watched it all those years ago, but it is what I would call a classic dungeon crawl. What I mean is that we have a labyrinth full of rooms and each of these rooms have a different challenge to overcome, with the goal to reach the centre of the dungeon. This is what I would call your classic Dungeons and Dragons adventure game, full of monsters, treasures, and basically an awful lot of fun.

alanjudge-30219 This film was one of my favorite as a kid. Both my brother and sister liked it equally. It applies to both sexes. Watching it again more recently also proves to me at least, it is a film adults can enjoy too.All the jokes that went over my head as a child I noticed to my amusement. The set and the puppets are wonderful and weird. Highlights include the 'Helping Hands' and the 'Bog of the Eternal Stench'.The character development is great and you warm to the kind-hearted band of friends that embark on an important mission. First to save Sarah's (Jen Connolly) baby brother and beat Jareth, The Goblin King's perplexing Labyrinth.The set design and the many puppets used are a visual treat. You do not see a film set you see the world of the Labyrinth. A world of weird and wonderful where left is right and right is left. Very much akin to Lewis Carroll's famous novel Alice in Wonderland. The surreal nature of the film gives it great depth and atmosphere.Davie Bowie is great as the Goblin King. He embodies the narcissistic despot living in the centre of the maze. Camping it up with style and providing the film with top class vocal performances in the film's musical interludes.I could write an essay on this film, but I think I have said enough. A great kid's film that parents will also love.

RavenGlamDVDCollector A menagerie of puppets, puppets everywhere!Got a lot of Jennifer Connelly's performances, so wanted more, research showed me this, her big vintage performance, so took the leap recently and got me the 30th Anniversary edition.Was skeptic about the puppet-fest, but settled in to watch.I have to admit, of course it is clearly a good film with a magical story-line, it is just not in my line. Jennifer Connelly started off bad, and I thought, hoo boy, in for a dismal ride at this rate, but she improved quickly, maybe the first few scenes should have been redone?Weird and wonderful stuff. Check out the Lady Godiva fairy. Hey, there's a guy prancing around in here wearing a blonde wig, looks just like Tina Turner.Just kidding. Wonderful cinematography. Cute long-haired heroine. Bright colors and lots of wondrous scenes. And, ah, yes, er, Hoggle. What have I done to deserve Hoggle? Face like Ernest Borgnine. And a very unimpressive choice for the baby, who spoils all his scenes, as all film-babies invariably do, but this particular baby was the conceptual designer's, part and parcel. Anyway... Total magic. I wouldn't have been here if not for Jennifer, but let me put it this way, however back-handed my comments might be, anything good said from the non-converted one here actually speaks more than the volumes by the straight-out fans.So, won't make a habit of this kind of stuff, but yeah, good work.