The Spokesman-Review from Spokane, Washington • 59

12 The Spokesman-ReviewSpokane Chronicle, Friday, June 27, 1 Quality gets lost in 986, Spokane, Wash. Labyrinth LADIES tHE.alEREVUE all ale 30 Vled. JuN you $600 villain. He acts nasty, but his bark seems worse than his bite. He is easily the most dynamic presence on screen, but his musical numbers seem unrelated to the rest of the film.

Why does a goblin king sing, anyway? "Labyrinth" is playing at the Lincoln Heights and the North Division Cinemas. rescue the baby. En route, she is joined by Hoggle, a cowardly, gnomelike peasant; Ludo, a huge and dumb furry monster, and Sir Didymus, a valiant fox terrierlike soldier who rides a sheepdog. But nothing builds dramatically. Your interest is sustained solely by the bizarre or cuddly nature of the creatures Connelly encounters.

Bowie also makes a peculiar ONDITIONEDJJ CONDITIONED ALI THEATRES AIR ffsmmmmim TIRIING RECREATION ORGANIZATION THE SCREEN EXPLODES! ITS TOPS! Joel Siegel ABC- TV By KIRK HONEYCUTT Los Angeles Daily News Whatever would Miss Piggy say? Labyrinth marks the second attempt by Miss Piggys creator, Jim Henson, to break free from his Muppet image. The Dark Crystal (1982) suffered by being overly solemn and pretentious. Labyrinth goes to the opposite extreme. A young girls hunt for Jier kidnapped baby brother in a fairy-tale world is treated in so comic a manner as to trivialize that search. digested many Film review childrens fantasies L.

Frank Baums Oz series, Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in Wonderland and the writing and illustrations of Maurice Sendak and selected favorite bits to rework into a surprisingly lame childrens film. Being a puppet master, he naturally focuses his imaginary bestiary the red-feathered Fireys with detachable body parts they toss back and forth, or the goblins, which look like Muppet hippies. The film plays like a long product reel illustrating sophisticated new techniques in puppet design (by Brian Froud) and electronic remote control. But the cumulative impact is wearisome rather than exciting. Terry Jones script never allows the characters to overcome difficulties through their own cleverness, but rather by divine intervention or sudden plot twists.

Except for occasional jokes, such as the gnome with his own bottle of fairy spray they bite, you know no adult sensibility is at work bere. The film has none of the satirical thrusts of Carroll or Baum. Jennifer Connelly a bland and minimally talented young actress plays a spoiled and selfish teenager who prefers to live in her make-believe world of dolls and childrens fantasy books. Annoyed at having to baby-sit her infant brother, she calls upon the goblins to steal him away. The goblins oblige.

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