Monday, August 17, 2009

BD review: Labyrinth

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There's something impressively gung-ho about Labyrinth. It clearly knows it's nonsense, but doesn't seem to care and simply runs with it, resulting in a movie whose irresistible charm makes up for the fact that the story is held together with sticking plaster and the whole thing is really just an excuse to wow the audience with its impressive creature effects and a hefty dose of 80s camp. This was never a childhood favourite for me (I saw it once, when I was around eleven years old, and had more or less forgotten about it until I watched it again recently), so it doesn't hold quite the same degree of nostalgia for me that it will for many other people. Regardless of that, however, it's unquestionably lamentable that films of this sort simply don't get made any more. Perhaps we've become too hung up on things making sense, or perhaps we're so anxious not to frighten children that we forget that all the best fairytales had elements that were truly terrifying. Regardless, for all its daftness and artifice, Labyrinth seems a good deal more genuine than just about any other film aimed at children that I can recall seeing in recent years.

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