Memorable, crazy movie

best movie i've ever seen.

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

I loved the original so much that I wanted to see the sequel, even though I was 15 when it came out. My dad is fond of clean movies and was glad to take me. It was fairly horrid, for a kid who'd gotten attached to the original at the perfect age. (In 1984 I was 9 to 10, and I was basically any of the 4 boys at the beginning of Stranger Things, which was extra difficult because I'm female.)My dad and I thought it sucked. This was largely because Bastian's main companion in the film is a very poorly executed bird-man. Think crappy Big Bird knockoff who does children's parties. He had a terrible speaking voice, which is now reminiscent of Jar Jar Binks to me. I do not remember Falcor being in the film at all. If he was, they must have spent the entire budget on his 10 seconds of screen time, because the movie looked cheaper than dirt compared to the original. The lack of interesting scenery added to how boring it was.The kid who played Bastian was pretty good. This redeemed nothing, however. The film was too crappy. I would say that today, it can entertain smaller kids, if you want to use it for that. 6 or 7 year olds, at most.

I work in the industry, especially with continuity, so I have a GREAT problem whenever ANYONE is re-cast in an established role, be it Victoria in Twilight, or EVERYONE, but the book store owner, in the this movie! Without retaining the same people, we lose the flow of the story. ALL of the main kids are different, Bastian's Father is a different actor, and the voices established in the first movie are all altered from the established ones! Honestly, the only things that tie it to the original is the movie title itself, character names, the book store owner is played by the same Actor, and, LUCKILY, they still have the original Luck Dragon and Rockbitter props.It is not a horrible movie, per say, but all of these changes make it a mere shadow of the glories of the original film. Although the kids do an admirable job in this movie, by not casting all of the original actors, it causes a disconnect, because we are looking at people we do not recognize as, say, Bastian, who is now a blue eyed blond. Then, they have the right Falkor and Rockbitter, but their voices are totally different! I wish this movie would have had ALL the magic of the first movie, but it takes half the film to acknowledge the new actors as the established roles, which, to me, robs the viewer of the full experience. This movie had so much potential!

From what I heard, this movie was actually an adaptation of the second half of the book the original film was based on. Wow, imagine who meta it would be if I read the original book? Anyway, this sequel features Bastian going back to Fantasia and defeating an enemy known as the Emptiness. I found this movie mostly boring and the original is so much better. I think it's because Bastian was kind of a jerk in this one. It's said that he literally killed Atreyu! I mean, I get it that he was losing his memories, but wow was that mean! The best thing is probably how good the effects are.The sets are quite nice looking and the character designs are quite creative. It was weird how there were scenes where he was losing his memories which were represented by balls coming out of a machine. That was later used in "Inside Out"! Forget "Osmosis Jones". THIS is the movie that it stole from! Most of the actors from the original film are gone and they can't represent the story nearly as well. Still, I do like the idea of sequels for something called "The Neverending Story". *1/2

THE NEVERENDING STORY II is a wonderful and breathtaking familiar film with adventures and imagination but inferior to excellent original. A lonely and grieving little boy named Bastian(the sadly deceased Jonathan Brandis substituting to Barret Oliver) is only living with his father( John Wesley Shipp in similar role to Gerard McRaney)but his mother has deceased.He seeks refugee in the library where meets a bookkeeper and is taken a fantastic book .Thus, again he enters the storybook world of Fantasia through the ¨Neverending story¨ tale . This time Batian is really in the flick the complete time instead of outside of the pages but happens that with each wish he lost records. There, he goes to Silver City and he meets the young valiant warrior named Atreyu( Kenny Morrison replacing Noah Hathaway)as he must save the magic world of Fantasia threatened for the destruction by the advance of Nothing that will eventually wipe out all the things and rescue the imprisoned childlike Empress . She is detained by evil sorceress Xayide (Clarissa) supported by his large mechanical beetles. Xayide has a dark scheme for Fantasy world and the Childlike Empress. They'll have to fight a magical army of giant bugs on two legs that threaten our friends.The story is an enjoyable fairy tale with great charm from the original novel by Michael Ende,trying to incorporate too much dreamland with fantastic beings like a giant bird named Nimbly, the large flying pink poodle dragon named Falcor ,among others weird and bizarre creatures .They have been made by big puppets and no by means of computer generator effects but at the time had not been invented. The visual beauty of the impressive scenarios give the movie a real sense of wonder.The production design and sets are visually rousing and appealing.The film contains an agreeable moral message about reading books.It's followed by a new sequel, the third part titled: ¨Escape from fantasia¨(directed by Peter McDonald)with Jason James Ritcher. Besides followed by a Television cartoon movies. The movie contains spectacular musical score by Robert Folk and colorful cinematography by David Connell. The motion picture filled with imaginative moments is professionally directed by George Miller though with no originality because takes too many elements from previous film. Miller is an Australian director usually working for television (Tidal wave, Journey to the center of the earth,Attack of the Sabretooth) and occasionally for cinema ( The man from Snowy river Zeus and Roxanne,Robinson Crusoe ). Rating : Passable, acceptable, 5,5.