Artist Labyrinth

Though not as loveable as The Dark Crystal, Jim Henson’s follow-up feature, Labyrinth, is more polished visually and conceptually while still retaining a homemade, handcrafted, meticulously realized charm. A 14-year-old Jennifer Connelly stars as a self-absorbed teenager immersed in her own Renaissance Faire-esque fantasy world, until goblins accept her angry invitation to come kidnap her wailing toddler brother. As she tries to get him back, the Goblin King (David Bowie, strutting around in criminally tight pants and a fright wig, apparently having the time of his life) tempts and taunts her. 

Updated 11/30/2009