Granted I'd been drinking a little and accepted the peace pipe a time or two, following a fine repast at a house full of friends, but I'm never not in the mood for a bizarre fantasy film made with real live pre-CGI special effects and that has no easily discerned plot. I was always a big fan of The Time Bandits and of Brazil. And even Liquid Sky. But this was just way too dumb.
The Empress awaits her next customer
Even this attempt at drawing in the usually dependable adult male perv audience so they'll take their daughters a second and third time fell flat. So though I'd synopsize the plot, I'd just be making shit up because it made no sense. I admit Star Trek IV didn't either after half a hip flask of 151 but I don't think that was the problem this time.
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My kids and I loved this movie. I see that it came out in 1984, when my oldest was still 1, so we must have purchased the tape in later years. The movies based on it after were what we thought were dumb. :-)
Arleen
Gee, I'm glad I was never brave enough to watch it. Eek!
This may be the only 80's movie I've never seen.
KIDS movie, dude. Brazil--not. My kids loved it a lot.
This movie aimed more at little girl lust, not the dad perv or 15 year old boy thing (hence a dragon that looked like a mutant dog, not some wild machines. Ahem).
The Empress was a gorgeous if deeply disturbed child the girls could imagine themselves into. Atreyu had a sort of proto-Deppian quality, without the naughty humor. More's the pity.
It's a child chick flick.
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