Watching it again, I laughed at how quickly it gets into it – not the fantasy world, but the theme song. What the fuck kind of lunatic wants a story without kung fu animals to never end!? It’s absurd! But somehow they make it work. But there was another detail that did stick in my brain, one that I had to question because it seems so fucking crazy: could it possibly be true that there are no kung fu animals in this one at all? Believe it or not, that is true. I did not remember that in this one the kid just reads about the fantasy world, he doesn’t go there.
I saw it in the theater 39 years ago and I remembered it enough to know WARRIORS kinda ripped off its kid-picked-on-by-bullies-given-large-leatherbound-book-magically-connected-to-a-fantasy-world format. I guess this is a weird reason to revisit a family fantasy classic that’s treasured around the world, but I felt like after spending so much time on WARRIORS OF VIRTUE I had an ethical duty to review another first-English-language-movie-by-an-internationally-acclaimed-director, THE NEVERENDING STORY.
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