I watched The Neverending Story the other day with a friend over Facebook. We enjoyed it, but mocked it and had a great time doing so. Today we watched the sequel and the dreaded third movie, which are both notoriously awful.
The second entry in the series is alright. The plot is weak, the characters are dumb and the ending was some of the most unsatisfying shit ever to grace my eyes, but at least some of the charm of the original carried over to make it bearable. It felt like they'd tried to follow up the first movie but were a tad misguided. I don't understand quite where the wishing for a heart came from, or quite why that made all of the giants explode. Parts of it felt rushed and under-explained, too. Bastian didn't actually meet Atreyu in the first movie, but they still act like old friends. We were also poking fun at the entire cast being played by different people. It ruined the consistency a little, but that works in the favor of the first movie.
We really lost it at the scene with his mother, with the line "Don't be afraid, Bastian. We are all a part of a never ending story."
The third movie is beyond a joke. It was the worst piece of shit I have ever seen. It was a steaming turd of a film. I hope that the entire production crew have realised what they did and have since committed violent suicide. Everything wrong with this movie is shown in the way Falcor is portrayed. No longer is he an old dragon. He's now a derpy flying dog. He is clumsy and his voice has a goofy tone. Any depth he had as a character was eradicated for a few cheap, silly moments that might have mildly entertained an immature six year old. Most of the characters were like this. The best character was the one Jack Black played, simply because it was a typical Jack Black character - a leather clad school bully. He was 25 when he took on this role and the mature, stubble look was just hilariously perfect.
I haven't laughed at a movie so much in a long time, but I would not recommend these. The second is fun to mock if you've seen the first, but the third was almost too bad to be funny. I recommend a friend if you're going to brave them. Even with one they were hardly bearable.
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