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Released Year: 1985
Runtime: 94 minutes
Directors: Ridley Scott
Writers: William Hjortsberg
Casts: Tom Cruise, Alice Playten, Mike Edmonds, Kiran Shah, Peter O'Farrell, Tim Curry, Eddie Powell, Robert Picardo, Billy Barty, Cork Hubbert, Mia Sara, David Bennent, Annabelle Lanyon, Tina Martin, Ian Longmur, Mike Crane, Liz Gilbert, Michael Crane
IMDB: Legend (1985)
Ratings: 
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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Slant Magazine -
What with the film's cotton-candy mise en the scene, rhyming goblins (“Mortal world turned to ice/Here be goblin paradise”), sexless pixies and elementary light/dark metaphors that reference the order of its universe, Legend is a gothic fairy tale brought to life.
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Chicago Sun-Times -
Despite all its sound and fury, Legend is a movie I didn't care very much about. All of the special effects in the world, and all of the great makeup, and all of the great Muppet creatures can't save a movie that has no clear idea of its own mission and no joy in its own accomplishment.
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TV Guide Magazine -
Ultimately, LEGEND--a pet project of Scott's that took years to research, shoot, and edit--is done in by the director's ambition. What might have been a pleasantly innocuous children's story becomes an enormous, lumbering FX machine into which the actors, particularly a nervous Tom Cruise, seem to disappear.
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Miami Herald -
The film seems just right for kids, though what older fans of Cruise ("Risky Business") and Scott will make of it is far less clear. [22 Apr 1986, p.B4]
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Los Angeles Times -
Although awesome in its fantasy splendor, Legend has even less substance than Scott's last film, "Blade Runner." And whereas that detective thriller of the future offered a truly original vision, the look of Legend, as gorgeous as it is, seems a distillation of all the illustrations for all the fairy tales ever read to a child. [18 Apr 1986, p.C4]
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Legend (1985)
Set in a timeless mythical forest inhabited by fairies, goblins, unicorns and mortals, this fantastic story follows a mystical forest dweller, chosen by fate, to undertake a heroic quest. He must save the beautiful Princess Lily and defeat the demonic Lord of Darkness, or the world will be plunged into a never-ending ice age.
Legend (1985)
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...
Information
Released Year: 1985
Runtime: 94 minutes
Directors: Ridley Scott
Writers: William Hjortsberg
Casts: Tom Cruise, Alice Playten, Mike Edmonds, Kiran Shah, Peter O'Farrell, Tim Curry, Eddie Powell, Robert Picardo, Billy Barty, Cork Hubbert, Mia Sara, David Bennent, Annabelle Lanyon, Tina Martin, Ian Longmur, Mike Crane, Liz Gilbert, Michael Crane
IMDB: Legend (1985)
Storyline
Set in a timeless mythical forest inhabited by fairies, goblins, unicorns and mortals, this fantastic story follows a mystical forest dweller, chosen by fate, to undertake a heroic quest. He must save the beautiful Princess Lily and defeat the demonic Lord of Darkness, or the world will be plunged into a never-ending ice age.
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Reviews
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Slant Magazine -
What with the film's cotton-candy mise en the scene, rhyming goblins (“Mortal world turned to ice/Here be goblin paradise”), sexless pixies and elementary light/dark metaphors that reference the order of its universe, Legend is a gothic fairy tale brought to life.
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Chicago Sun-Times -
Despite all its sound and fury, Legend is a movie I didn't care very much about. All of the special effects in the world, and all of the great makeup, and all of the great Muppet creatures can't save a movie that has no clear idea of its own mission and no joy in its own accomplishment.
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TV Guide Magazine -
Ultimately, LEGEND--a pet project of Scott's that took years to research, shoot, and edit--is done in by the director's ambition. What might have been a pleasantly innocuous children's story becomes an enormous, lumbering FX machine into which the actors, particularly a nervous Tom Cruise, seem to disappear.
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Miami Herald -
The film seems just right for kids, though what older fans of Cruise ("Risky Business") and Scott will make of it is far less clear. [22 Apr 1986, p.B4]
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Los Angeles Times -
Although awesome in its fantasy splendor, Legend has even less substance than Scott's last film, "Blade Runner." And whereas that detective thriller of the future offered a truly original vision, the look of Legend, as gorgeous as it is, seems a distillation of all the illustrations for all the fairy tales ever read to a child. [18 Apr 1986, p.C4]
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