If you are going to get this movie, it would be better to get the Ultimate Edition. First both carry a list price of 14.98 and Amazon.com offers the Ultimate Edition cheaper. It just doesn't make sense why Universal did such a stupid marketing move. Do yourself a favor and pick up the Ultimate Edition.
Let me preface this by saying I have NEVER liked Tom Cruise. Even before this latest stunt with Katie Holmes, I have never been a fan. I can barely stomach my boys love of Top Gun and Days of Thunder. That being said, I love this movie.
This is a wonderful fairy tale about innocence lost. It has all of the elements of a fairy tale, magic, wonder, a princess, a hero, a band of merry makers, a villain, danger, intrigue, suspense, laughter and ofcourse a Happy Ever After ending.
This movie was made in 1985 and holds up very well today. My mother bought it for me as a child because of my love on Unicorns and I bought it for my children because of the wonderful story. Tom Cruise, Robert Picardo and Tim Curry are almost unrecognizable in their roles, Tom because of his age, Tim and Robert due to the make up. Mia Sara is amazing in her role as the princess of both Dark and Light. Classic actor Billy Barty is highlighted here as well.
One of the amazing facts about this movie is that it was filmed entirely on a sound stage. The sets are so inspiring, you must see them to believe them, and you wont believe its not real. Check out the special features on the DVD for more about the soundstage and the real plants and animals that were used in filming.
This is a story worth seeing, worth showing to your children. Its a classic Good versus Evil story and has moments of scary themes and a small touch of violence (no blood). The only movie one could remotely compare this to is Labyrinth, and this is the far superior movie. Please check it out.
Sarah (a teenage Jennifer Connelly) rehearses the role of a fairy-tale queen, performing for her stuffed animals. She is about to discover that the time has come to leave her childhood behind. In real life she has to baby-sit her brother and contend with parents who don't understand her at all. Her petulance leads her to call the goblins to take the baby away, but when they actually do, she realizes her responsibility to rescue him. Sarah negotiates the Labyrinth to reach the City of the Goblins and the castle of their king. The king is the only other human in the film and is played by a glam-rocking David Bowie, who performs five of his songs. The rest of the cast are puppets, a wonderful array of Jim Henson's imaginative masterpieces. Henson gives credit to children's author and... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Jim Henson DVD Release Date: Released the 12 October 1999 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Jim Henson's fantasy epic The Dark Crystal doesn't take place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but like Star Wars it takes the audience to a place that exists only in the imagination and, for an hour and a half, on the screen. Recalling the worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien, Henson tells the story of a race of grotesque birdlike lizards called the Skeksis, gnomish dragons who rule their fantastic planet with an iron claw. A prophecy tells of a Gelfling (a small elfin being) who will topple their empire, so in their reign of terror they have exterminated the race, or so they think. The orphan Jen, raised in solitude by a race of peace-loving wizards called the Mystics, embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of the Dark Crystal (which gives the Skeksis their power) and... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Jim Henson - Kathryn Mullen Director(s): Jim Henson - Frank Oz DVD Release Date: Released the 05 October 1999 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Even when his trademark twist-ending formula wears worrisomely thin as it does in The Village, M. Night Shyamalan is a true showman who knows how to serve up a spookfest. He's derailed this time by a howler of a "surprise" lifted almost directly from "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim," an episode of The Twilight Zone starring Cliff Robertson that originally aired in 1961. Even if you're unfamiliar with that Rod Serling scenario, you'll have a good chance of guessing the surprise, which ranks well below The Sixth Sense and Signs on Shyamalan's shock-o-meter. That leaves you to appreciate Shyamalan's proven strengths, including a sharp eye for fear-laden compositions, a general sense of unease, delicate handling of fine actors (alas, most of them wasted here, save... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Bryce Dallas Howard - Joaquin Phoenix - Adrien Brody - William Hurt - Sigourney Weaver Director(s): M. Night Shyamalan DVD Release Date: Released the 11 January 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This strange, 1985 experiment by Ridley Scott (Blade Runner) starred the up-and-coming Tom Cruise in a fairy-tale world of dwarfs and unicorns and demons. After the horn of a unicorn is broken, darkness and winter descend upon the world. Cruise's character, helped along by a magic sprite played by David Bennent (The Tin Drum), descends into hell to save paradise. This movie is almost a classic case of art direction gone amok. The somewhat amorphous Cruise doesn't lend much dramatic focus or artistic definition, but the drama between Tim Curry's satanic majesty and Mia Sara's character, who becomes a sort of princess of the netherworld, is pretty captivating. A mixed experience all around that makes one wish it had been more successful. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Director(s): Ridley Scott DVD Release Date: Released the 21 May 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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As paranoid cop Del Spooner, Will Smith (Independence Day, Men in Black) displays both his trademark quips and some impressive pectoral muscles in I, Robot. Only Spooner suspects that the robots that provide the near future with menial labor are going to turn on mankind--he's just not sure how. When a leading roboticist dies suspiciously, Spooner pursues a trail that may prove his suspicions. Don't expect much of a connection to Isaac Asimov's classic science fiction stories; I, Robot, the action movie, isn't prepared for any ruminations on the significance of artificial intelligence. This likable, efficient movie won't break any new ground, but it does have an idea or two to accompany its jolts and thrills, which puts it ahead of most recent action flicks.... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Will Smith - Bridget Moynahan - Bruce Greenwood Director(s): Alex Proyas DVD Release Date: Released the 14 December 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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