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It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

The first must-see film of the year.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Jonathan Brandis i think is highly underrated and sadly died. He looks cool, a face hard to miss, just saying. I really like this movie and sad to always see movies that are soo cool, or interesting be so bad, its like it fits in there, with Resident Evil extinction and The 3rd chapter or some other Dumb movies that are really bad. This movie has cool flow to it either tied or 2nd to the first one its clearly got the near same people on it and has that same feel of the magical wonders of Fantasia and i don't see why its hated so much when there is real crap to hate. I love this movie and Rockbiter, and just its so cool and don't care if it drops down far i for me i love this movie, and if others cant see the greatiness in it then i done my best. Its not as bad or even bad as people say they just look to much into the 2nds compared to the firsts. Same as Jurrassic Park 2. That movie has more dinos, more action, more death, it even enters a CITY! I love it as or tied with the original. High exspectations i think really high.

Well wasn't this just a waste of time. Never ending Story no.2 offers nothing new to us at all. The Original already did that and it certainly didn't need this waste of time.After the first 20 minutes or so of this film, I felt the fantasy was taken out of this film and that really disappointed me as it was classified to be a Fantasy film. In terms of magical elements, it doesn't have them.All the actors have change and that's OK because they did a pretty good job, but.... it's the story and all the concepts that I hated. I'll go through the one that really irritated me and for some reason this became a huge distraction of the film.Bastian now gets to wish for anything he wants cause he's got the oracle. But the kid's character is a total idiot, why doesn't he wish for the entire world of fantasia to just go back to normal.... Instead he does a bunch of other things in which that results in him loosing his memories. The whole wishing concept is just over the top along with other things that they would of worked on. I really tried to like this... 4.7/10

THE NEVERENDING STORY II is a wonderful and breathtaking familiar film with adventures and imagination but inferior to excellent original. A lonely and grieving little boy named Bastian(the sadly deceased Jonathan Brandis substituting to Barret Oliver) is only living with his father( John Wesley Shipp in similar role to Gerard McRaney)but his mother has deceased.He seeks refugee in the library where meets a bookkeeper and is taken a fantastic book .Thus, again he enters the storybook world of Fantasia through the ¨Neverending story¨ tale . This time Batian is really in the flick the complete time instead of outside of the pages but happens that with each wish he lost records. There, he goes to Silver City and he meets the young valiant warrior named Atreyu( Kenny Morrison replacing Noah Hathaway)as he must save the magic world of Fantasia threatened for the destruction by the advance of Nothing that will eventually wipe out all the things and rescue the imprisoned childlike Empress . She is detained by evil sorceress Xayide (Clarissa) supported by his large mechanical beetles. Xayide has a dark scheme for Fantasy world and the Childlike Empress. They'll have to fight a magical army of giant bugs on two legs that threaten our friends.The story is an enjoyable fairy tale with great charm from the original novel by Michael Ende,trying to incorporate too much dreamland with fantastic beings like a giant bird named Nimbly, the large flying pink poodle dragon named Falcor ,among others weird and bizarre creatures .They have been made by big puppets and no by means of computer generator effects but at the time had not been invented. The visual beauty of the impressive scenarios give the movie a real sense of wonder.The production design and sets are visually rousing and appealing.The film contains an agreeable moral message about reading books.It's followed by a new sequel, the third part titled: ¨Escape from fantasia¨(directed by Peter McDonald)with Jason James Ritcher. Besides followed by a Television cartoon movies. The movie contains spectacular musical score by Robert Folk and colorful cinematography by David Connell. The motion picture filled with imaginative moments is professionally directed by George Miller though with no originality because takes too many elements from previous film. Miller is an Australian director usually working for television (Tidal wave, Journey to the center of the earth,Attack of the Sabretooth) and occasionally for cinema ( The man from Snowy river Zeus and Roxanne,Robinson Crusoe ). Rating : Passable, acceptable, 5,5.

Well, to tell the truth, I did like this sequel when I first saw it. I must have been five or six years old (din't remember it in the movies).When I see it today, there are an assortment of flaws and awkward moments that make it inferior by far with both Ende's novel and it's film predecessor, and overall, inferior to several fantasy movies before it.Some aspects of the novel, including characters like Xayide and events like Bastian's loss of memories are included, but completely altered for the newly conceived story.Bastian's father, only mentioned in the novel, has a bigger part in this movie, giving it a "Spielberg-esque" moralist tone. It's not entirely bad, but it's just not what the original story was about.Half of the movie is Ende's stuff. The rest is made up plots and cheap kiddy fantasy. Don't feel obligated to rent it, but if you do, don't read the novel nor watch Part I first. You may feel disappointed. You also may need to think like a kid to find it amusing.