Netflix's 10-episode prequel series TheDarkCrystalAgeofResistance drops on Friday. Read the review:
and more, sending our main characters from destination to destination with much more purpose and conviction than marked the mini gelfling migration in the movie. Though I'm not sure I ever got any holistic sense of Thra's size and geography, you get a real feel for locations like the Crystal Desert, the bustling gelfling metropolises of Stone-in-the-Wood and Ha'Rar and various catacombs and caves.
Directing all 10 episodes, bringing consistent energy to the entire series and effectively redefining his entire career is Louis Leterrier , whose achievement here is fairly remarkable. One need only to look at how stagey the movie sometimes is, how generally devoid of action, to be astounded at the mobility of Leterrier's camerawork, to be amazed at how he's able to navigate around any limitations in the puppets and the presence of their puppeteers.
I'll quibble that occasionally the backdrops and even the puppets themselves felt maybe a hair too polished, the result of a use of CG that's somewhere between "More than you think" and "Less than you might fear." There was some primitivism in the hand-drawn matte backdrops from the original that had value and maybe I'd want to dirtyup by 5 or 10 percent.
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