GurlyIamBeach Instant Favorite.

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

cricketbat Seriously, is there a children's fantasy film better than The Neverending Story? This timeless tale works for a variety of ages and still entertains after numerous viewings. It's bizarre, yes, but that's what makes it so memorable. I hope that this will be a favorite of my kids as well, so The Neverending Story can continue.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "The NeverEnding Story" (1984)From director Wolfgang Petersen and cinematographer Jost Vacano, who realized the exceptional World-War-II drama "Das Boot" in season 1980/1981, get engaged by supreme producer Bernd Eichinger (1949-2011) to bring a beloved children-fantasy-book from 1979 written by author Michael Ende (1929-1995) and later in 1983 in splendid English-translations by Ralph Manheim (1907-1992) to the screen under Hollywood-like production values produced at the Bavaria Film Studios, Munich."The NeverEnding Story" tells the story a troublesome as bullied minor Bastian, who lost his mother to death, in high convictions because directed portrayals by Barret Olivier, who escapes to remotely attic in a library to enter the world of "Fantasia" where he meets fantastic creature and beasts as the roaming stone giant "Rockbiter", "Falkor" the flying dog-head-shaped white dragon and a terrifying black-animatronics-indulging "Black Wolf" along the way to rescue the dying world of "Fantasia" and his beautiful fairy tale princess of a secret high counsel, when "Altreyu" the child readers' alterego hero embarks on fighting for the liberation of an extraordinary imaginarium beyond.Director Wolfgang Petersen classifies as formidable ascending filmmaker in productions of the mid-1980s, when "The NeverEnding Story" deserved a higher-seeking attendance on the U.S. domestic market of Summer 1984.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

jay_amer This movie is still one of my all time favorite's from when I was a little kid playing with my toys in front of my television. This Is a movie that I have watched over and over again a million times and never get bored of it. To this day I still watch it and still enjoy it just as much when i was a kid playing it in my VHS player. This movie is a movie that everyone must see and experience the wonderful NeverEnding Story! 10/10!!!

Anssi Vartiainen Barret Oliver plays Bastian Balthazar Bux - a proud name, if there ever was one - a studious little boy, who's quite fascinated with books and stories as means to escape his less than ideal life as a child, who has lost his mother and is bullied at school. After dodging said bullies into a bookstore, he happens upon a book called The NeverEnding Story. Taking the book to school with him he ends up lost in its pages, reading about a world being taken over by The Nothing and about the Childlike Empress and Atreyu of the Plains People, who hunt the purple buffalo.The NeverEnding is one of the most beloved classics of the fantasy genre for a reason. Partly this is because of how the film looks. The beautifully made and animated puppets are still a sight to behold and give the whole film amazing authenticity. Rock Biter, Falkor, Morla and so many more fantastic creatures, who despite clearly being puppets, feel amazingly alive and alert in every scene they're in.But the other and most important part is the story itself. The barebone plot itself is more than decent fantasy adventure, but its the subtext, to which I keep returning. This film and the original book take a step backwards and decide to examine the very act of experiencing a story, be it through the act of reading a book, seeing a film or even listening to a song. We get lost in this experience. The surrounding real world shuts down and suddenly we're there, struggling across the Swamp of Sadness or peering through the telescope of old Engywook. It's an amazing thing, but quite often it's taken for granted.Not with this story, though. And for that, if for nothing else, this is a great film.