CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Rahul Kulkarni I grew up watching this show in the 90s. I don't quite remember the time it used to be aired on TV but I am sure it was some time in the evening after school. Richard O'Brien, being a true entertainer would keep me engaged for the entire hour. What's more. My mom used to love the show too and watch it with me whenever possible.What an idea for a game show! Different games with versatile genres like Mystery, Physical, Mental, etc., spanned 2-3 mins across different Zones : Aztec, Medieval, Industrial, and Futuristic (chronologically arranged, now i get it) , collecting crystals for obtaining 5 seconds in the beautiful Crystal Dome. I used to admire the entire set of The Crystal maze. What a well-crafted effort the whole crew of the show had put up there. A true team-effort. Kudos to the designers, the cast and crew and the entire production unit for making my childhood exciting! How much I have wanted to praise you guys. I guess IMDb has to be the right platform!!Why I liked the show is also for the basic scientific approach it took. Perfectly balanced levels of difficulty, Perfect level of details in each zone, for example - the sun-dials in the Medieval zone as opposed to digital watches in the Futuristic Zone, Bubbling acids in the Industrial Zone, etc. There was no room for error! Finally when you enter the maze, "Will ya start the fans please".. and soon we see contestants convert their hard-earned time into glory.Throughout the entire show, what keeps the adrenalin pumping is the Theme tune of The Crystal maze entitled Force Field composed by Zack Lawrence. I can never forget that track in my lifetime. I always thought it brought a Star Wars kind of feeling with it. At that time, this track was at another level.All in all, when I look back at the show from the Futuristic Zone of 2012, I am driven into nostalgia and I must say that I was and will continue to be a true fan of this wonderful show.It was truly the birth of quality entertainment!

words_like_violence_brea The crystal maze was in its own right a religion!Different time zones where contestants (now looking dated from re-runs on challenge TV) run around following the shiny headed fur covered GOD! Richard O'Brian gave his life to that show only for its reputation to be destroyed by Edward Tudor-Pole. That is why the show failed after only two meaningless years of his terrible presenting....BECAUSE NO ONE LIKED HIM!The crystal maze was a real reality programme not like the crap shown these days. Where ever Richard O'Brian is now he should come and make a great international come back with another series of "The Crystal Maze". I definitely would come and be a contestant, you would know which one I would be as I would be clinging to my gods leg, licking his feet.....no I mean it I mean everything i say. This is why when I grow up i'm gonna turn my house into the crystal maze and wax my head.P.S I think that Richard O'Brian has a drink problem

Jackson Booth-Millard When I was younger I sometimes caught this game show, but it was when I got older when I managed to see it all again and appreciate it more for the great fun it is, or was. Presented by The Rocky Horror Picture Show creator and actor Richard O'Brien for four series, with his exuberant and eccentric personality, big coats and boots (often with leopard patterns somewhere), amusing put downs and breakaways from the game playing the harmonica (amusingly badly) and small stories of his Mumsie (played by Sandra Caron in a few episodes), and then presented by almost as eccentric but not as fun actor Edward 'Ed' Tudor-Pole. The game consisted of six contestants (three men, three women) following the presenter around four zones in The Crystal Maze all full of rooms with set puzzles to play, solve and win for a crystal, each crystal representing five seconds of time for the final game, the Crystal Dome. These zones were Aztec - a past jungle setting with sand and temples, Medieval - a past castle setting with table and cobwebs, Futuristic - a 22nd Century spaceship setting full of computers (including the talking one), metal and sliding doors, Industrial - a steel, iron or aluminium made construction like a factory full of pipes and metal, this zone was replaced after three series by Ocean - a 20th Century sunken ship setting with he main saloon staircase and boiler room. There are four categories of games that the players can choose to play, all involving what they say in the name, they are Skill (tests of dexterity and accuracy), Mental (tests of brainpower often involving maths or word association), Mystery (tests of logic and cunning) and Physical (tests of speed and strength). The games played by the contestants, chosen by the team captain (yes, also a player), took between two and three minutes to play, and if a contestant goes over they are locked in, and some games are "automatic lock-in" which means a contestant making more than a set number of mistakes will be locked in immediately. If a player did get locked in a game room the players had the option to buy them out using one of the crystals they may have won, taking away five seconds of their achieved time for the final game. So the final game, the Crystal Dome, a large see-through crystal shaped the time in the dome is determined by how many crystals they have won in the sixteen games, times five, e.g. five crystals = twenty five seconds, and the idea is to collect as many gold credits (gold bits of paper) as possible and put them through the letterbox, however any silver tokens collected are subtracted, over one hundred after deductions gets them the big prize, under they take away a commemorative crystal saying I cracked The Crystal Maze" (they also get this if they win). I would agree the show has become a cult classic since it ended, on TV its heyday was the O'Brien years, it lacked the same spark when he left, I am one of he hundreds of fans as it was and still is in repeats very popular, with O'Brien (and moments of Tudor-Pole) making you laugh, a fantastic theme tune, and the games all fun to watch, a highly enjoyable game show. It was nominated the BAFTAs for Best Children's Programme (Fiction/Entertainment) (twice) (for the children's specials) and Best Graphics. Very good!

Big Movie Fan When I first saw The Crystal Maze back in 1990, I thought, "Wow, this is ahead of it's time."Richard O' Brien (from the Rocky Horror Picture Show) was the host initially and was replaced in the show's later years by Edward Tudor Pole. O' Brien was irreplaceable and whilst Tudor Pole did his best to make the show his own, he failed miserably.The game show itself was like something from the future which is why I thought it was ahead of it's time. There were all sorts of shows set in Medieval,Aztec, Industrial or Futuristic worlds. The contestants played the games and tried to obtain time points which could then be used inside the Crystal Dome at the end where the contestants tried to obtain gold tokens which were flying about. The prizes were very good indeed.All in all, The Crystal Maze was superb and way ahead of it's time.