The Dark Crystal

1982 • 93 minutes

About this movie

When Jen, a member of the Gelfling tribe, sets out to find the crystal's missing shard, his dangerous journey to restore peace to their planet brings him face to face with monsters at every turn. This masterpiece of animation recounts the timeless tale of good vs. evil and has become a cult favorite of children and grown-ups alike!

Ratings and reviews

That is the extent of the value of this film. As a fantasy it is extremely slow-moving and expressionless. Flat might be the appropriate term for it. There appears to be a story, but it is overwhelmed by the puppetry which is technically amazing. Unfortunately, I did not have a puppeteer to watch the film with me to point out all of the amazing and so I was left to wander in the depths of my ignorance.

I still want to love this movie but I just can't. There is so much creativity here and genuinely unique ideas at the time but it just doesn't work as well as I hoped.

This was an amazing movie so much character and room to spread but there was just so much random happening and the characters were a bit frightening the movie left you thinking stuff like "wait what?"