I have incredible memories of the original film which came out in the mid 80's. It was a big part of everyone's childhood back then and nearly everyone loved it. I was unaware there ever WAS a sequel until a few days ago. I watched it, it is crap.

This film actually managed to make a fair bit of money which I guess isn't that surprising seeing as how it had the fame of the first film at its back, and the fact that there was no widespread internet in 1990. So they just snuck this one by us i guess.

The story sees Bastian back in Fantasia and he needs to go on some sort of convoluted quest in order to save the realm from another magical force. This entire scenario is prompted by problems that he is having at home that encourages him to return to the bookstore and ends up reading the Never Ending Story book a second time. Although, this time, rather than just being a witness to the story, he is actually transported to Fantasia to actively take part.

We are reintroduced to the old characters that we loved from a few years prior in 1984 but now they are all just garbage. I was most upset about the fact that Atreyu is younger than the last time we saw him and also forgot how to act (it's a different actor, obviously) and the rockbiter has a much different voice... I mean really different. I can do a better rock-biter voice than the voice actor they got to do this. Plus, what is this thing and no... just get it out of here.

The special effects in this movie are bad also, really bad and I would say at times could be considered lazy. The main enemies called "giants" are not even remotely scary and are easily dispatched.

It is as if they never really intended for this to be a sequel at all, but just knew they could rip off the public for around $20 million. They succeeded at one thing at least

You would be hard-pressed to find any actual critic that will say anything good about this movie as well as amateur ones. I fall into the latter category and I give this 4 thumbs down. 1 point awarded only because it can maybe, MAYBE keep someone's kids occupied for an hour and 20 minutes.