I love Neverending Story by Michael Ende. It's a great book, and I highly recommend you check it out. At least that way, I won't feel like the only person in America that has actually read it. The movie is, well, an '80s classic. Sure, it strays from the book, frequently, but what movie doesn't. Also, it was only the first half of the book. The second movie is supposed to be the second half of the book.
Bastian finds himself in Fantasia after hearing an SOS from the Childlike Empress. Meanwhile, a witch by the name of Xayide, makes a machine that takes away Bastian's memories one by one for every wish he makes on AURYN. Something is destroying Fantasia, or at least preventing it from being accessed from the real world or something like that. What is this force that the movie speaks of? The Emptiness. Not the Nothing like the first movie, but something COMPLETELY different. Yeah.
This movie is terrible. It didn't even try to adapt the second half, instead it uses the second half as a device to cash in on the first movie BY REMAKING THE FIRST MOVIE. The acting is annoying, it doesn't make any sense, and it's stupid as hell. The good parts are where it cuts to Bastian's father, actually reading the story as it goes, and the special effects aren't bad for the time.
It's a stupid, vacuous, pretty looking sequel and it deserves to burn.
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