I hadn't heard of this one before a friend of mine rented the DVD and, reading the synopsis, I was sufficiently intrigued to want to watch it as well.
An imaginative and dazzling visual feast patterned more or less on "Alice In Wonderland" (with the heroine's growth to womanhood being a principal factor behind all the phantasmagoria), but whose extreme weirdness and rather grim detail bring it closer to dystopian sci-fi stuff like "1984" and "Fahrenheit 451" than anything else! Still, it's very well done but, also, not really a "kiddie" film - despite the involvement of The Jim Henson Co.; the performances, too, naturalistic and larger-than-life where appropriate, are surprisingly effective.
While highly impressive as a technical achievement and undeniably complex script-wise, the film can still be enjoyed on the surface as pure fantasy and, as such, it should be better known; indeed, with time, it's likely to garner cult status...
An imaginative and dazzling visual feast patterned more or less on "Alice In Wonderland" (with the heroine's growth to womanhood being a principal factor behind all the phantasmagoria), but whose extreme weirdness and rather grim detail bring it closer to dystopian sci-fi stuff like "1984" and "Fahrenheit 451" than anything else! Still, it's very well done but, also, not really a "kiddie" film - despite the involvement of The Jim Henson Co.; the performances, too, naturalistic and larger-than-life where appropriate, are surprisingly effective.
While highly impressive as a technical achievement and undeniably complex script-wise, the film can still be enjoyed on the surface as pure fantasy and, as such, it should be better known; indeed, with time, it's likely to garner cult status...