When her baby brother Toby makes a fuss, teen babysitter Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) wishes the goblins would show up and take him away. Enter David Bowie's Goblin King, Jareth (complete with that famous codpiece.) If she can make it through his complex Labyrinth in 13 hours, Jareth will spare her baby brother, otherwise he'll turn him into a goblin!
Labyrinth has great Bowie led songs and wonderful Jim Henson puppet creations like dwarf Hoggle and gentle beast, Ludo who help Sarah on her challenging mission. Best of all is a fox terrier named Sir Didymus and his Old English Sheepdog, Ambrosius.
This 80's fantasy remains full of imagination, purposely weird, and endlessly fascinating, even on repeat viewings. It couldn't be made now, at least not as successfully. It's a total one off.
Family is shown to be more important than materialistic items (see: the Junk lady) and Sarah's awakening sexuality is explored (see: her dance with Jareth) until she realises that - you have no power over me! Now that's feminism.
The actors are terrific and the end showdown is brilliantly done with gravity defying staircases. Labyrinth is an 80's classic. All together now, "You remind me of the babe..."
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Side note: despite being a U certificate certain scenes might be too scary for little ones.
DIRECTED BY: Jim Henson. SCREENPLAY BY: Terry Jones. RUNNING TIME: 101 minutes. CERTIFICATE: U / G. UK / USA.
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