Willow (1988)
Country: US
Technical: col 126m
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davies
Synopsis:
In a mythical land a man and a woman call upon an elf to help them preserve the life of a baby on which the defeat of evil forces depends.
Review:
Fantasy film-making by numbers, with all plot and character elements borrowed from the Old Testament, the Arthurian legend, Snow White, Pinocchio and Star Wars (to wit the poster campaign depicting Vader avatar, tomboy princess and peasant hero). Evidently in sympathy with the general air of plagiarism, James Horner contributes one of his inimitably imitative scores, feeding on Richard Strauss and Gustav Holst via Williams and Barry. It is all frankly tedious to endure, the Italianate Lilliputians being as intolerable as that other Lucas creation, the Ewoks, and the photography of the attractive mountain scenery is unattractively grainy, doubtless to facilitate the effects work.
Country: US
Technical: col 126m
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davies
Synopsis:
In a mythical land a man and a woman call upon an elf to help them preserve the life of a baby on which the defeat of evil forces depends.
Review:
Fantasy film-making by numbers, with all plot and character elements borrowed from the Old Testament, the Arthurian legend, Snow White, Pinocchio and Star Wars (to wit the poster campaign depicting Vader avatar, tomboy princess and peasant hero). Evidently in sympathy with the general air of plagiarism, James Horner contributes one of his inimitably imitative scores, feeding on Richard Strauss and Gustav Holst via Williams and Barry. It is all frankly tedious to endure, the Italianate Lilliputians being as intolerable as that other Lucas creation, the Ewoks, and the photography of the attractive mountain scenery is unattractively grainy, doubtless to facilitate the effects work.
Country: US
Technical: col 126m
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davies
Synopsis:
In a mythical land a man and a woman call upon an elf to help them preserve the life of a baby on which the defeat of evil forces depends.
Review:
Fantasy film-making by numbers, with all plot and character elements borrowed from the Old Testament, the Arthurian legend, Snow White, Pinocchio and Star Wars (to wit the poster campaign depicting Vader avatar, tomboy princess and peasant hero). Evidently in sympathy with the general air of plagiarism, James Horner contributes one of his inimitably imitative scores, feeding on Richard Strauss and Gustav Holst via Williams and Barry. It is all frankly tedious to endure, the Italianate Lilliputians being as intolerable as that other Lucas creation, the Ewoks, and the photography of the attractive mountain scenery is unattractively grainy, doubtless to facilitate the effects work.