![]() (It also helps that this one has a sense of humor.) I personally loved Sarah’s distraction as she struggles to put away her literal childhood things, with the Junk Lady trying to remind her of each item’s sentimental value in order to stop her from reaching her goal. (This, more than anything else, probably, is what we tend to cover on the podcast.) The ways Labyrinth expresses those universal themes is totally bonkers, however, involving a gender-bending David Bowie and an omnipresent, eye-catching mound in his “perve pants.”Įven moreso than The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth is bursting with imagination and a lovable puppet supporting cast, giving us more to hang onto than we got in The Dark Crystal. Labyrinth is a much more accessible film, one that deals with universal subject matter like the awkward teenage years between childhood and adulthood. I was happy to see the characters move as they did, but the story could have been about anything. It all feels like it’s happening in a faraway land, long ago, without real emotional resonance. The Dark Crystal is fascinating to behold with nary a human on screen, but it’s also very remote. Both movies are a little too straightforward and on the nose, though they’re stuffed to the gills with charming characters and brilliant ideas. Miss Piggy would not be kind to The Dark Crystal.” - Vincent Canby, The New York Timesīoth films are a wonderful display of Henson’s singular talents - and, like many visually sumptuous stories, I wish as much craft had been put into the storytelling as the puppetry. More than anything else, they seem inefficient, as if no order of evolution could ever have thrown them up, even in an off millennium. “Most surprising is the lack of either humor or wit, especially in the designs for the mythical creatures. In the case of the latter, it turns out that digging into the fairly complex themes and nuances of the story is, for me, more pleasurable than watching the film itself. I have fond memories of Jim Henson’s work from my youth, but never saw The Dark Crystal (until just before the podcast) and I’ve always seen Labyrinth as more of a quirky curiosity than a cherished childhood classic. I don’t have all that much to say about The Dark Crystal or Labyrinth that I didn’t say on the podcast.
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