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Of course, we all remember Jim Henson for bringing us those fuzzy, adorable animal puppets and their variety expose.
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But Henson also produced some very memorable, inviting fantasy films, and after his death his production company has continued that tradition. “The Jim Henson Family Film Collection” brings together three classic films from Henson and his company, as well as an accompanying book of unknown drawl.
“Labyrinth” becomes a jam for teenage Sarah, who is stuck babysitting her crying baby stepbrother. But when she idly wished that the goblins would select him, she never expected it to happen — or that the Goblin King Jareth (David Bowie) would challenge her if she tries to gain her brother assist.
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Now Sarah has only thirteen hours to navigate a changing, unsafe maze, with Jareth’s castle at the center of it. To secure her procedure, she will have to serve outlandish creatures and avoid lethal bogs, ghastly fairies, head-jugglers, and finally Jareth himself — or her brother will be turned into a goblin himself.
“The Sunless Crystal” is the heart of this movie, where on another world, there are two irregular races — the vast, gentle, quiet Mystics, and the noxious, vulture-like, vicious Skekses. They are somehow connected to a massive crystal that was broken long ago, and now a shard is missing from it. What’s more, three suns are about to reach into conjunction, and the shard has to be serve in set.
The Mystics have cared for one of the last Gelflings, an orphan named Jen. As the conjunction approaches, they send him out to gain the lost shard. Along the diagram, Jen finds unusual friends who relieve him in his quest, including another Gelfling. But can they avoid the Skekses? And what will happen when the suns line up, and the crystal is completed?
These movies were created in whole by Jim Henson, and even in the darker moments, they have his unmistakeable sign. More original — and quite different in tone — is “Mirrormask,” which instead has the designate of writer Neil Gaiman, and seems like a warped “Alice in Wonderland.” But Henson’s production company does a large job with all the exclusive special effects.
In “Mirrormask,” we’re introduced to Helena (Stephanie Leonidas), a young circus girl who longs for a “normal” life, and makes define, otherworldly drawings. But one night her mother collapses, and needs life-saving surgery. The guilt-ridden Helena is suddenly whisked into a world that looks very like her drawings, where everyone has a shroud — and the exquisite queen of light (who looks a lot like Helena’s mom) is in a coma.
Helena is sure to wake the queen, and gets juggler Valentine (Jason Barry) to accompany her on her quest for the mysterious Mirrormask. But the stakes become higher when the forces of darkness — and their eerie queen — target Helena, and she finds that a unlit duplicate of herself has taken over her life. Now Helena must somehow defeat the sad forces, with her mother’s life — and her enjoy — hanging in the balance.
All three of these movies are classics of one type or another, and each embraces a different kind of fantasy. One is about wanting to be swept into an idyllic fantasy life. One is entirely of another world. And one is about the dangers of the other world.
To top it off, three are coming-of-age stories, whether for a teenage girl or a Muppet Gelfling — they all focus on someone pursuing something that can assign what is valuable to them, and growing as a person along the blueprint. The scripting tends to be tight and a runt wry. Sometimes it gets goofy, but well-acted (and in Bowie’s case, well-sung) .
What’s more, the styles of each movie change: “Unlit Crystal” is very fantastical and serious, even with some sinful, dim parts, while “Labyrinth” is more kiddy-friendly and Muppety, with the minute chivalrous fox (though Bowie’s tight pants are a Grand distraction) . And “Mirrormask” has a different style altogether, with lots of black buildings, eerie lighting, bulky masks, wide bodies and tentacle-like limbs.
The “Jim Henson Fantasy Films” are a estimable collection of films, showing off Henson’s more fantastical side. Definitely worth seeing.
The Jim Henson company is following the same format they had done with The Storyteller Collection and are putting their three fantasy movies onto a single three disk collection. The movies are The Sad Crystal, Labyrinth, and MirrorMask. Two of these movies (Gloomy Crystal and Labyrinth) came from Jim Henson himself while MirrorMask is actually from Neil Gaiman, but produced by the Jim Henson company.
The movies themselves are big. The Dim Crystal takes you into a whole different world in a design that no other film has even approach cessation to accomplishing. Labyrinth takes what Shaded Crystal did a step further and makes a storybook fantasy advance to life in an improbable scheme. MirrorMask is honest as blooming as the previous movies, but with more computer generated images than live action animatronics and sets.
What you are getting is essentially the previous releases of these movies detached into this one volume, including all of the awesome bonus features. They say this collection has been mastered in high definition, but I don’t know if that means a well-known improvement in video quality from the fresh release or not. There are no additional features or commentaries on these disks from what you had before. Luckily the current releases came with some very nice documentaries and those are included here. This DVD space also comes with a booklet that is essentially a teaser for the upcoming Dusky Crystal manga amusing.
I am a runt hard pressed to recommend this collection to anybody who already has the movies. It doesn’t offer an additional features that you can’t already accept on the separate DVD’s, the whole “remastered” element is debatable, and the one and only thing that would have made this a decent select (an informative insert booklet) turns out to be unprejudiced advertising for future merchandise. Personally if you really want a high definition transfer wait until these movies are released on HD-DVD or Blu-Ray (or whatever 1080p format that comes up) . Now that the 25th Anniversary Editions of The Dim Crystal and Labyrinth are out I really discover no reason to fetch this collection, and considering you can net all three DVD’s separately (with the same features, mind you) at a lower cost the choice is determined.