A movie that manages to duplicate the thrill of reading.
A bullied kid takes a mysterious book and hides in the school attic. As he reads, the story happens. A nothingness is destroying the world of fantasia and a boy Atreyu has to travel to find a cure for the empress.
Things get a little meta, but the message is parcelled out for kids. The keys that make the movie work are the creatures and setting, always seeming just real but odd enough to work. Every kid growing up in the 80s loved Falcor and got disturbed by the horse dying and even now, 40 years later, it can still work that magic if you let it.
A bullied kid takes a mysterious book and hides in the school attic. As he reads, the story happens. A nothingness is destroying the world of fantasia and a boy Atreyu has to travel to find a cure for the empress.
Things get a little meta, but the message is parcelled out for kids. The keys that make the movie work are the creatures and setting, always seeming just real but odd enough to work. Every kid growing up in the 80s loved Falcor and got disturbed by the horse dying and even now, 40 years later, it can still work that magic if you let it.