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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
oh my god, it was awful!, May 21, 2006
now that's a movie i never want to see again in my life.
What's there to say? bad acting, and just about the stupidest plot i ever heard. bastion has to master his fear of hights to get on the swim team because he can't jump off the diving board, poor baby. then he goes into fantasia because the words in the neverending story are disappearing, and gets into the most unlikely adventure that ever played on my tv screen. he meets a really annoying bird named nimbly, whom i wanted to strangle after about five minutes. for some reason, bastion decides nimbly is his best friend. but really, nimbly is working for an evil witch named xayide, who insists on raising her eyebrows seductively every five seconds. the evil witch wants to take over fantasia, so she's imprisoned the childlike empress in the ivory tower (beats me how that's supposed to help). then, in order to stop bastion, she rigs up an evil machine that takes one of his memories every time he wishes on the Auron. the idea is that he'll forget what his mission is.
which is totally ridiculous, because you know how many individual memories we have? just about a few trillion. and bastion is making new memories every second he's awake, and if he forgets why he's in fantasia, atreyu (who has joined him on his quest) can surely remind him. And, bastion never shows any signs of losing his memory, even when the jar that's supposed to hold his memories is almost full. oh, and then bastion's father starts going crazy looking for him, finds the book, and starts reading about his adventure, interjecting stupid little comments like, "my son's riding a horse?" every two seconds, which really disrupts the story, and is also really annoying because he's such a bad actor. god, i can't beleive i wasted an hour and a half of my life on this movie.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
As far as I'm concerned..., September 7, 2001
By A Customer
This movie was never made. Hollywood has really turned into a sequel machine, and sometimes fans of an original movie who really love it just have to pretend that a sequel was never made.
Case in point.
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33 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
The First and the Second, April 30, 2005
The original NeverEnding Story movie was a masterpiece. A complete work of art. I remember watching that movie when I was a kid, it amazed me. I watch today, and it amazes me how it still draws me into that story so easily. In my opinion, it is a pure fantasy world with no flaws, in acting, in plot, in direction, in visuals; the characters are all wonderfully original and well played.
*sigh* Now...to the sequel.
Besides the fact that every single character was recast (aside from the bookkeeper?), and besides the fact that every character has a brand new personality which contradicts how they were in the first movie. Besides the fact that Bastian had brown hair in the first movie, and now all of a sudden he has blonde hair. Apart from the fact that Bastian's dad has quite the receding hairline in the first movie, and now, in the sequel, where'd that full head of hair come from? Aside from the fact that Falcor turned stupid for something reason. Apart from the fact that Atreyu, the brave warrior in the first movie, turns into a confused sidekick that can only speak broken english now...
*sigh* aside from all of that...
The thing that gets me the most, throughout the sequel they call the Empress, "The Child-like Empress"... *sigh*
...She is not child-like; she is, in fact, just a child! "Child-Empress"!!!
The magic that was the first movie disappeared in the second. I think the thing that sets the movies apart the most, a thing that hurts the sequel quite a bit, is the fact that we have to views of the story, in the original, Bastian's point of view as he reads the book, and then Atreyu's and the others view from inside the story.
With the NeverEnding Story II, there is no outside view. It's very linear, inside the story only, except of course, near the end, when the father starts reading the book, but the adult point of view doesn't fit in very well with the story.
I just popped in The NeverEnding Story into my VCR. The visuals are stunning, the Fantasia world in the original movie is so well thought-out, and obviously so. But there's something lacking with the sequel, it seems like you're in a different, low-budget version of Fantasia.
*sigh*
So, I think I'm done with my rant.
But if you've lasted with me this long, here's my advice:
The original movie is, no doubt, a must have in anyone's movie collection. If you must see the second one, just to see how bad it is (if you haven't seen it already), borrow it from someone or rent it, but don't buy it. It's not worth the money.
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