This film doesn't just lack every charming and wonderful feature from the original, but it also has a lot of absurd things.
Let's start from the beginning: music is not worthwhile in the whole film (not even at the opening sequence, in contrast to Limahl's masterpiece).
I don't like it when the same characters from a previous film are performed by different actors in a sequel, and this happens here with many ones. To top it all, both Mr. Koreander and the Childlike Empress act exactly the same way and say the same things they did in the first film (but this time she's not so pretty, her pleas are tedious and her hairstyle is just ghastly).
What happened to Bastian? Now he's such an impertinent brat who wastes the precious wishes from the Auryn, asking for more and more stairs instead of wishing a hundred of them at once (by the way, why didn't the Auryn grant wishes in the first film? Pathetic). Besides, he could have defeated all enemies with one single wish... so that doesn't make sense.
Other characters like the Rockeater are flat. And I don't even want to mention Xayide. What kind of idiot would want to destroy a world where he lives? Is she a suicide? What were the screenwriters thinking? The film reaches its most pathetic level when the father reads the book and quickly believes everything it says, instead of calling the police (a normal person would have think about a kidnapping).
That's all I have to say about this rubbish. Some tender moments between father and son, nice special effects and some entertainment make me give it 4/10 and not a sad 1.
Manuel Pérez.
Let's start from the beginning: music is not worthwhile in the whole film (not even at the opening sequence, in contrast to Limahl's masterpiece).
I don't like it when the same characters from a previous film are performed by different actors in a sequel, and this happens here with many ones. To top it all, both Mr. Koreander and the Childlike Empress act exactly the same way and say the same things they did in the first film (but this time she's not so pretty, her pleas are tedious and her hairstyle is just ghastly).
What happened to Bastian? Now he's such an impertinent brat who wastes the precious wishes from the Auryn, asking for more and more stairs instead of wishing a hundred of them at once (by the way, why didn't the Auryn grant wishes in the first film? Pathetic). Besides, he could have defeated all enemies with one single wish... so that doesn't make sense.
Other characters like the Rockeater are flat. And I don't even want to mention Xayide. What kind of idiot would want to destroy a world where he lives? Is she a suicide? What were the screenwriters thinking? The film reaches its most pathetic level when the father reads the book and quickly believes everything it says, instead of calling the police (a normal person would have think about a kidnapping).
That's all I have to say about this rubbish. Some tender moments between father and son, nice special effects and some entertainment make me give it 4/10 and not a sad 1.
Manuel Pérez.