This is fairly brief considering how much detail whoever put this together could get in to. Brian Jay Jones, the Jim Henson biographer, is featured here, and it reminds me that if you really want to dig much deeper into the man's life and career, that is there for that.
Considering this has to condense all of Henson's achievements, this does a lot - and it's surprising that it does touch on, even if it is also brief, the marital strife that Henson had (he apparently slept around, which almost doesn't sit well with how I used to see him but, hey, that's what happens when the private lives of people I cherish who create are fully revealed), or even that they were near a divorce in 1990. In a way I would've preferred more detail into what he did, though as far as a kind of 'cliff-notes' version - like the best Wikipedia ever, with some heartfelt interviews from Frank Oz (who is the most straightforward with his feelings and reflections), his daughter Cheryl, and the creator of Sesame Street (spoiler, it wasn't him, not really) - it's well done.
Some may only be interested in an hour to know about him, and in any format Henson's life and work should be an inspiration to anyone who creates things or words or art or music or anything in the world. The ultimate message with Henson was: if you actually put in the work, and it can be hard work, you can carve your own path in the world. Whether everyone else comes along is the real challenge, for them and for yourself (at times, i.e. Dark Crystal and Labyrinth taking so many years to accomplish and brushed aside as not being worthy - i.e. 'Where's the Muppets?') So, it's good, very good maybe, but it is what it is: 1 hour when it easily could've been three, or four, or even ten.
Considering this has to condense all of Henson's achievements, this does a lot - and it's surprising that it does touch on, even if it is also brief, the marital strife that Henson had (he apparently slept around, which almost doesn't sit well with how I used to see him but, hey, that's what happens when the private lives of people I cherish who create are fully revealed), or even that they were near a divorce in 1990. In a way I would've preferred more detail into what he did, though as far as a kind of 'cliff-notes' version - like the best Wikipedia ever, with some heartfelt interviews from Frank Oz (who is the most straightforward with his feelings and reflections), his daughter Cheryl, and the creator of Sesame Street (spoiler, it wasn't him, not really) - it's well done.
Some may only be interested in an hour to know about him, and in any format Henson's life and work should be an inspiration to anyone who creates things or words or art or music or anything in the world. The ultimate message with Henson was: if you actually put in the work, and it can be hard work, you can carve your own path in the world. Whether everyone else comes along is the real challenge, for them and for yourself (at times, i.e. Dark Crystal and Labyrinth taking so many years to accomplish and brushed aside as not being worthy - i.e. 'Where's the Muppets?') So, it's good, very good maybe, but it is what it is: 1 hour when it easily could've been three, or four, or even ten.
