The Dark Crystal (1982)
On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use the crystal for evil.
- Frank Oz
- Jim Henson
- Dusty Symonds
- David Odell
- Jim Henson
Rating: 7.1/10 by 1112 users
Alternative Title:
Ciemny krysztal - PL
Dâku kurisutaru - JP
El cristal encantado - AR
El cristal oscuro - ES
Le Cristal Magique - CA
Country:
United Kingdom
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 33 minutes
Budget: $15,000,000
Revenue: $40,600,000
Plot Keyword: race against time, mission, liberation, castle, villain, mythical creature, puppetry, fantasy world, crystal, good versus evil, bizarre creatures
Some old things just don’t really hold up. I was hoping that this movie was going to be a lot better than it was. To myself, I thought it would be great as this was one of Jim Henson’s more notable films. However, the story didn’t really grip me all that much. That could be because today we have a ton of these movies. The one where the is the hero who must overcome an orphan story to become the hero that they are today. However today, that has been all, but played. There could be the argument that it wasn’t done at the time all that well, and that is why this movie is good. However, I’m not a fan of that argument. As older movies can still hold up even though they have the same overarching story as the movies in the genre that succeed them. This one, I didn’t feel like had any real differences except it was done with puppets. The fact that you have puppets in a movie should not be the selling point. The selling point should be that you can use those puppets to tell a better story. In summation. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t all that good. It was right in the middle of the road for a movie.
