Steve Barron

Oddly choosing to omit most of the most memorable moments and lines of dialogue without changing the plot much really weakens an otherwise solid production into bland forgettableness. The saving grace is that Izzard is predictably tremendous as Silver (despite losing many of his best moments in the book), and some of the larger innovations are promising -- making the Squire into a greedy, villainous figure, making the Doctor cowardly, giving Silver's wife and Jim's mother their own show more storyline, even if the latter doesn't really go anywhere. Not terrible, but you'd be so much better served watching the Muppet version. show less

An old man tells folktales to his dog.

At its best it's fun, and at its worst it's at least interesting. It's one of the only faithful screen adaptations of fairy tales. They just don't make shows like this - and understandably. Henson and Minghella apparently just said "fuck it" to every conventional idea of what audiences like and made the weird-ass show they felt like making.

Concept: A
Story: B
Characters: C
Dialog: B
Pacing: C
Cinematography: C
Special effects/design: A
Acting: B
Music: show more B

Enjoyment: A

GPA: 3.0/4 show less

This is one of SNL's better films, with a pretty decent story about conehead aliens who are stuck on earth and have to adapt to earthling life. Sure it's a bit of a weird premise but it actually works out nicely.

My copy broke half-way through so I will never know if the good guys won (*cough cough * ); however, my boys loved the TMNT when they were young). When it came out in theaters, we sent the two older boys to "review" it, and they decided the younger ones should not go see it yet! Has a few 'damns' but mostly too convoluted and stupid to follow; violence is relatively minor, but not good role modeling.