LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Labyrinth, back in theaters through Sunday from Fathom Entertainment, is the supreme creative thesis from a pioneering artist. The last film Jim Henson directed, 40 years ago in 1986, expresses maximum creativity in every scene.
Teenage Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) is a loner who escapes into her fantasy world. When tasked to babysit, she wishes the goblins would take her infant brother Toby (Toby Froud) away and free her.
The Goblin King, Jareth, (David Bowie) obliges, so Sarah has 13 hours to solve his Labyrinth and rescue her brother.
Each scene in the Labyrinth is a puzzle for Sarah to solve, encountering helpful and mischievous creatures brought to life by the Henson Workshop. By far the most breathtaking image is the Helping Hands, a pit Sarah falls into where disembodied hands catch her.
Those hands combine into faces which speak to her. Five or six performers at a time coordinated their hands to make those images, and the human ingenuity to create that tops any subsequent computer generated effect.
