Tales From the Neverending Story
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Actor: Edward Yankie, John Dunn-Hill, Mark Rendall, Tyler Hynes, Victoria SanchezDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 600 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Hannover House
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DVD Review: I don't know where this piece of crap came from...
Summary: 2 Stars
...but it basically fails on almost every level. It takes the name of "The Neverending Story", but shares very little with the book. This raises the first question, which is: why make a "re-imagining" when the book is filled with so much stuff that has yet to be put to film? Most of the altered plot really does nothing to enhance the story. It is pretty much boring drivel that takes away from the themes in the book.
For example, naming is an important theme that is well explored through the danger to the child-like empress. Making an agent from Fantasia disappear by erasing his name just debases the idea. Similarly the constant incursions into the real world from Fantasia make little sense, and screws up the idea that Fantasia is a fantasy world.
These incursions are a perfect example of the bad plot changes. Most of them make little sense, especially the constant failure of Xayide's agents to recover the book from Bastion. At many times they are just staring at the book, and they could just take it, but don't. If, like Oren, the book cannot be lost or stolen (and I never noticed them mention it to be so) they never really ask him or try to leverage it either.
The plot changes also bring in a bunch of annoying characters. Fly Girl is a boring name for a badly written character, and the rat-faced salesman is no better. For some reason, all the kids at Bastion's school are about 5 years older and at least a foot taller. Coriander is now a wizard, but typically waivers between impotence and omnipotence. The G'mork just kind of looks retarded.
The casting is problematic too. There is nothing child-like about the child-like empress. In fact, she looks like a failed beauty pageant freak, far from the innocent dignity of the girl in the original movie. There is nothing even remotely menacing about the evil queen Xayide. In any case, they both share bad writing and expressionless acting. Most of the other main characters, however, are both cast and portrayed fairly well.
The sets do seem impressive at first. However they increasingly follow the story into making Fantasia into some sort of technomagic monstrosity. Without giving away any spoilers, some of the CG gets really bad towards the end.
In summary, the movie fails because they take a good story and change the plot in a really bad way. I don't mind that they weren't true to the story, just that they did a really bad job of it all. The production, writing and casting were all bad as well. The movie got 2 stars instead of 1 because it's not exactly unwatchable and even has a few laughs from time to time.
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