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The Dark Crystal

The Dark Crystal

1982
93 min
Adventure Family Fantasy

Plot Summary

On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use the crystal for evil.

7.1
IMDb Rating
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Ratings & Reviews

7.1
IMDb Rating

Technical Details

93 min
Runtime
1982-12-17
Release Date
Movie
Content Type
1982
Year
Genres
Adventure Family Fantasy

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User Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

7.0/10
Recent

When the old emperor dies, a new even nastier "Skeksis" one takes his place, and so begins this latest reign of terror for all the "Gelfling" on the distant world of "Thra". The only way to rectify things is for the dark crystal, damaged aeons ago, to be restored to it's former glory and that can only happen at the conjunction of their planet's three suns. That onerous task now falls to the timid "Jen" and his friend "Kira" and so they set off on a series of perilous adventures as they must loca...

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Datapotomus

4.5/10
Recent

Some old things just don’t really hold up. I was hoping that this movie was going to be a lot better than it was. To myself, I thought it would be great as this was one of Jim Henson’s more notable films. However, the story didn’t really grip me all that much. That could be because today we have a ton of these movies. The one where the is the hero who must overcome an orphan story to become the hero that they are today. However today, that has been all, but played. There could be the argu...

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