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The Dark Crystal (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 5, 1999
- Originally Released: 1982
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Jim Henson & Frank Oz | |
Screenwriting by | Jim Henson & David Odell | |
Produced by | Gary Kurtz |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 6.5/10 --
The puppetry is incredible. Unbelievable how fluid it is with such great attention to detail
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Rachel's Reviews (YouTube)
...A dazzling technological and artistic achievement by a band of talented artists and performers...
Variety
The Dark Crystal remains a wonderfully crafted adventure from a simpler time.
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Film School Rejects
Desiccated, clawing villains feasting on rotting food in a castle as unprepossessing as the crashed spaceship in Alien have a splendour that is almost operatic.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
The Dark Crystal has an ethereal alien quality to its startling visions, far removed from the Earth-bound contours of traditional fairy tales.
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Empire Magazine
The Dark Crystal, besides being a dazzling technological and artistic achievement by a band of talented artists and performers... that could teach a lesson in morality to youngsters at the same time it is entertaining their parents.
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Variety
...This live-action yet actorless exercise is distinct enough to stand apart from typical fantasy fare...
Entertainment Weekly
Product Description:
Featuring fantastical puppet flora and fauna from Muppet man Jim Henson, this dark but wonderful children's movie follows Jen and Kira, two young Gelflings who are the last of their kind, as they try to fulfill the prophecy of the Dark Crystal. Jen's wise master reveals on his deathbed that only a Gelfling will mend the crystal that cracked 1,000 years ago and placed the land under the dark rule of the evil, selfish Skeksis. To break the prophecy, the Skeksis killed all the Gelflings, and only Jen and Kira escaped their wrath. Now, though, Jen and Kira must journey into the heart of the Skeksis castle to reach the crystal and return the land to its former goodness.
Like all good children's movies, THE DARK CRYSTAL contains enough scary elements to keep the tension tight and the kids enthralled, while the puppet mastery will impress and tickle adults. THE DARK CRYSTAL was the first co-directorial effort of Frank Oz, who went on to direct THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, IN & OUT, and BOWFINGER, among many other comedies.
Like all good children's movies, THE DARK CRYSTAL contains enough scary elements to keep the tension tight and the kids enthralled, while the puppet mastery will impress and tickle adults. THE DARK CRYSTAL was the first co-directorial effort of Frank Oz, who went on to direct THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, IN & OUT, and BOWFINGER, among many other comedies.
Keywords:
Adventure
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Animation
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Fantasy
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Puppets
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Jewels
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Recommended
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Fantasy Worlds
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- Sales Rank: 29,363
- UPC: 043396028494
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