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www.vicecentral.com - : If you can appreciate the movie for what it was trying to do, rather than the effectiveness, then the first hour will be bearable. The last hour or so is awesome stuff. If the entire movie had been the calibur of the last hour, it would have been a muppet classic. more...
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3/4
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www.moria.co.nz - : This the ultimate extension of Muppetry. It is light years from the clumsy wooden marionettes of Gerry Anderson or even of the glove-puppet Kermit the Frog and the technical artistry of having him ride a bicycle, it is the creation of a complete, three-dimensional, wholly-artificial world in incredible, breathtaking detail - all sans humans. more...
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4/5
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efilmcritic.com - : The story is a simple one. And that ain't necessarily bad. The gelfling world has been enslaved by the evil, reptilian Skeksis. A young gelfling is chosen by his dying master to return a missing shard to the Dark Crystal, an ancient monolith that in some ways represents the lifeforce of the world. Unless the shard is returned to the crystal soon, the planet's inhabitants will forever be incomplete and the Skeksis power will grow like a black plague, forever controlling the land and its heart: the crystal. more...
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5/5
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