Labyrinth
Jim Henson
1986
Labyrinth: Jim Henson's
classic, and one of the great modern works of art of the fantastic. As
with all of Henson's great works, the comedy and the cuteness and the
slapstick are perfectly balanced with, and delicately undermined by, the
grim and the gruesome and the truly terrifying, with the edge of the unearthly and
very, very real that he and Brian Froud could tap into when they
were at their height.
I first came to this movie as an adult (and wish
I'd grown up with it as many did), but I love it deeply, and have watched it
again and again over the years. I'm still not a fan of Jennifer
Connelly's acting, sorry, but the puppetry of all forms is mind-blowing, and David Bowie really is terribly, hella
sexy.
1986
IMDB: Labyrinth
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