“As it exists, the movie would/could not be made the same way today,” one critic wrote in 2013. also something that’s getting harder to find these days, now that Hollywood has taken to doing remakes and franchise tie-ins.” This is harder to achieve than it might appear, and it’s. That take has remained consistent over the years as the film’s reputation has improved earlier this year, one reviewer wrote, “The world of The Dark Crystal felt lived in, and it didn’t feel like a Lord of the Rings clone either. Positive reviews considered the film a technical achievement, however, and Variety noted that the film was a “dazzling” allegorical morality tale. Many critics of The Dark Crystal were dismissive, often negatively contrasting the film to the Muppets and panning Henson’s attempt to create a fully immersive universe - a world that transcended the genre constraints of what “children’s” storytelling might do, while enhancing the fantasy capable through the wonder of puppetry. Even as late as 2009, the film was widely framed as “surprisingly dark (despite the hint right there in the title) for a children’s film.” Probably because it was brought to us by Jim Henson, creator of the lovable, bright, and happy Muppets and Fraggles, the original film’s dystopian tone, with its barren population and scorched world, is a concept that critics just couldn’t seem to get over. Age of Resistance drops us into a once-thriving world that’s rapidly in decline Ain’t no party like a skeksis party! Kevin Baker/Netflix
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The care, the attention to detail, and the roster of stars eager for involvement are all an indication of just how highly valued Age of Resistance is by its creators - and how ultimately satisfying it is that the resulting series is a win for everyone. Through it all, the production is blessed with a huge, delighted, and delightful cadre of A-list actors (seriously, the list is eye-popping), all taking their roles very seriously.
But while there are many moments of whimsy, they’re grace notes on a show that’s unabashedly somber if anything, the rich detail of the puppetry and production design paradoxically makes Age of Resistance’s world feel even bleaker, and lends its moments of real horror a disturbing sense of the uncanny valley. Its setting is a fantasy world as vast and complex as the most high-budget epic fantasies, yet its puppetry means many viewers might expect the series to convey a constant whimsy. The Dark Crystal was odd because it was dark for a children’s film Age of Resistance is odd because it’s so deeply committed to both its high level of puppetry and its epic fantasy. It’s in many ways as odd as its predecessor, though perhaps for different reasons. The Dark Crystal was one of the late Jim Henson’s pet projects, one whose world he continued to build and expand for years after the film was created, and the new production has been built as faithfully as possible to that spirit. There’s a delightful moment late in the season when the puppets themselves tell stories through the age-old “sacred” art of puppetry, and we completely understand why they hold it so dear. The result is gorgeous, thoughtful, detailed, and utterly remarkable.
The Henson Company, in its most ambitious project to date, has arguably already entirely subverted 2019 expectations by telling its entire, 10-episode story mainly through puppetry rather than CGI. To say this approach subverts the expectations that a title like “age of resistance” might convey is putting it mildly.
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