What child of the 80s doesn’t love this movie?

This is the first time I’ve seen the movie in widescreen, it was almost disturbing. It’s a superbit DVD too (which actually sort of annoyed me ‘cos I was expecting the DVD with the documentary on, I was hardly even interested in seeing the movie again), and the images in this movie deserve the special treatment. I hadn’t realised the movie was actually directed by Jim Henson, who is slowly becoming my late childhood god after watching Fraggles last week and now this. The messages here are clearly presented – the usual Disney-ish stuff of “you can do anything you put your heart into” etc, but also later in the movie, the rejection of material values in defense of the intangible stuff (Connelly, who in the first scene is severely overdramatic over a missing stuffed toy in her room, later refers to everything in her room as “Junk!” since the only thing she wants and needs is to find her baby brother).

Then there’s the music…. man oh man. I can’t even talk about the music. Just watch the movie or get the soundtrack. This is classic 80s, this is my childhood here lol.

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