Sadly Over-hyped

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

What did I just watch?.....I have no idea what I just just endured but it was not the Neverending Story. That was.... I'm not sure i can put into words but here goes nothing...The acting was absolutely terrible... like something from a junior high theatre production. The movie seemed to drag on for days on end. This may possibly be the worst movie EVER created. This movie, if you can call it that, made me want to die.PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE! Save yourself from the utter brain cell annihilation that is this movie.

First of all, Bastian is portrayed as a scrawny 12 year old boy... Not a fat, dorky 10 year old as in Ende's book.Second, Not only does the book have no non-flashback scenes prior to mother's death, the mother CERTAINLY didn't drive a VW neo-bug... and for god's sake! "MoonChild" on the mother's license plate? Where else do we go? Bastian gets "The Neverending Story" not by stealing it, but as a replacement for Mr. Coreander breaking his game boy. Wow. Bastian doesn't make up stories in this film, rather, his mother was an illustrator and THAT is how he got all into reading.The werewolf from the book has become a creepy looking shape shifter who is Bastian's new substitute teacher, Mr. Blank. Come on! What about the importance of Atreyu meeting the werewolf so that he can understand that for Fantasticans, Fantastica has NO borders? I don't believe the people who wrote this film ever even looked at the book...But beyond that, Atreyu is a 17 or so year old boy and they give him not only a best friend, but a LOVE INTEREST! Now both you and I know that NOTHING about Ende's book is sexual... especially the Childlike Empress, who in this film is just begging for it...And since when is Xayide MoonChild's sister!>?!?!? Anyway, to summate, this film should not have the right to claim that it is based on Michael Ende's fantasy triumph, it is merely another bad B movie in the clearance bin at WalMart...

I got this movie on DVD as a present on December 5, and had a chance to watch it today. I'ts in one word: YEACH! All the charm of Michael Ende's beautiful book, and of the original movie is completely lost. This movie is never exciting, the acting is very very poor, and the effects are of the quality of your own home-video's. Bastian Bux is not the shy introvert boy he is supposed to be, and Atreyu is some sort of malformed Indian from a bad western movie from the seventies. And do not get me started on the dragon..Michael Ende's story is hardly recognized, only the characters have a slight resemblance with the book.Its a pure waste of money and time. If you love Michael Ende's "Die Unendliche Geschichte": do not watch this movie, and especially: don't buy it. You can get my copy for free.

While I enjoyed the Tales from the Neverending Story it really can't be thought of as the Neverending story. While I haven't read the book (yet, getting it soon), its like the writers watched the movie, grabbed bits they liked and then made the rest up. Throwing in characters and situations of their own devising and barely keeping anything intact from the movie. As a fantasy series though, it is very good. It Reminds me of other fantasy series (Australian made ones) like Thunderstone, Spellbinder and to a lesser extent Ocean Girl (all very good series that you should check out if you can). The characters are all well done, and while some of the situations are a little hard to believe, it is a fantasy show, and can be easily overlooked. Check it out, but don't start watching with the expectation of a remake of the movie.