The Neverending Story III - Nostalgia Critic 

He's Jack Black- even in his bad movies, he always at least tries.

but you know your movie's bad when Jack Black is the best actor in it.

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True But really think about this: This movie failed so miserably and Jack black was so ashamed of it he refuses to talk about it in interviews

It is.

@@thomasspongeconductor2222 Relax dude. Lol.

@@gohanbeatz9798 No, really. I heard it mentioned in the show. In a Jimmy Timmy Power Hour. The 2nd one.

@Animestar17 What do you mean?

@Animestar17 Yes. I understand that.

Lmao. Although Nimh 2's miles better than this awful flick.

@@timelordsrapbattles8498 Only because THE SECRET OF NIMH 2 TIMMY TO THE RESCUE is shorter than THE NEVERENDING STORY III

Must be a relative of Gordon Freeman😎

@@thing1thing2themediamaniac43 *Imagine if NIMH 2 had every single problem NES3 had only taken to even more annoying levels, & was 48 minutes longer.*

Did he do that in the "Secret of NIHM 2" review?

Hehehehehehehehe. XD

Hahahahahahaha!

*H O W* *COULD* *THIS* *GET* *W O R S E*

The.Stupicide. This movie nearly killed the Critic

500th like

Razh 80 Yup!

*opens up video* *hears profuse crying* This is gonna be a good one.

Mistakes were made. The consequences however are good. At least for fellow semi-sadistics.

Yeah, I hate hearing Doug crying.

Goku Black Sadly, couldn't agree more.

I´ve heard it too XD

Mein LIBEN!!!

Jawohl!

To be fair the book is German

I spat out my drink while choking on it

The only Thing they really fucked up un the first movie is the ending.

The original script of the film actually wasn't as bad: Falkor was still somewhat smart, Atreyu was in it and his personality was more or less the same as in the first two films, and the Childlike Empress actually gave bAstian a real reason why he couldn't just wish the lost Fantasians in the new Fantasia: the Auryn couldn't teleport multiple beings while in separate locations...

The author, while definitely understandable, sounds a bit crazy. If it took a lawsuit to make a movie more faithful to source material, a lot would be different in entertainment today.

That's kind of sad....

ajmrowland you got that right. Percy jackson would actually be more faithful. They only took the skeleton of the books and the slight beginning and made up so stupid junk

by that scene i was ready to reject my humanity and become a vampire

Honestly, any movie that plays 'Born to be Wild', I hate immediately.

@@matthewrose4797 'born to be wild' by steppenwolf was part of 1969's Easy Rider, often considered one of the greatest movies ever made. the movie's praised for it's performances, directing, writing, visuals and soundtrack. the 'born to be wild' in this terrible sequel is a bastardized version of an enjoyable classic rock track.

@@danielscott5673 Well I've never seen Easy Rider so I didn't know that, I just don't like the song.

@@matthewrose4797 How could you hate recess schools out?!

I think it's more to do with The Nasties and their influence on holding the book.. Since they're causing chaos in the outworld, Fantasia gets caught in the mix and their influence has bent their world into a variation of what The Nasties have.

Alisha Dee Could've been both.

Alisha Dee Just zero love and care for the original. Clearly the changes were made because Hollywood executives thought that's what the kids back then wanted to see. If only the original could be rebooted with as much love and care as the original (And of course no CGI models)....

Alisha Dee Well, for sure, you guys might be on to something but here are a few more reasons why they defiled the characters: for 1-the writers and directors were different and they chose to make the Neverending Story more kid-oriented hence the new goofy-personality of the charaters. 2-The first film was an adaptation of a German book. The source was almost completely abandonned for this movie. 3-It was the heydays for 90's MTV in popularity and influence, that flick feels like an MTV series' episode aimed at teens. The producers tried to capitalize on that popularity emulating that "style" with this disgrace of a movie. 4-Finally, it prefigures the animated series which first aired in 1995 and was closer to the 3rd film than the source material or the 1st one for that matter.

Alisha Dee maybe the nastys did it they said they where gonna mess with the book.

There developing a remake right now.

Everything’s better than the Garbage Pail Kids 👏🏾

Yeah I never understood that either, WTF?

@@christycapers4715 Nukie is worse, and I think Phelous's worst movie (Five Across the Eyes) is close

Technically they targeted him before they got expelled

@@kevinmitchell6466 Paddington ruined that song for me. I hate that film. Don't get the love it gets.

Beth G. Ct

What does that mean?

tripp cory Neverending Story 2 was pretty bad, but this one is wayyyy worse.

Beth G. I was talking to New York Scout, but I do appreciate your willingness to clarify under the misonception that I was talking to you.

tripp cory Ahhh Ok.

Why bother waiting? They can just grab him right there. It’s called common sense, Never Ending Story 3. COMMON SENSE!!

Joseph Womer Because it’s after 3

Maybe they want good careers and an education who knows maybe the nasties are very career driven bullies maybe they...eh screw it this movie makes zero sense

Not to mention when Bastion was getting chased he ran away from teachers who will easily give him help if he gave them the chance to listen or at least have the librarian help him

"He saw the neverending story 3 honey,I think anyone would be slightly insane after watching that crapfest,"

@@hyena234thekids7 "should we call the police mommy? so they can help him..."

They've seen the movie as well.His slight insanity is justified.

@@hyena234thekids7 "I mean so they can help him destory the dvd"

@@aquapenguin9697 Yes

+Burnout Jack Black even admitted that while he had fun with his performance, he regretted starring in this movie.

I don't blame him

Ty Marshall Same.

At least jack black played good as the villain in this movie

At least Black's career survived this film.

Other movies already ruined it with overplay.

Honestly it makes the song even more fun for me, personally.

@@lovetolovefairytales How?

@@lovetolovefairytales you're a fucking idiot

David William No! You are a f***ing idiot!

If by half you mean literally EVERYONE except jack black.

@@MaCabaret jack black is the only good one

He was acting I thought that was pure rage

What about Freddie Jones?

& a bit ironic

Damn right he will!

Well, then. Here's an oof for you. Ended passed away in 1995. He was alive long enough to see the final nail in the coffin of his work.

Number 5 will have the crapheads! Number 6 will have the jerkfaces!

I guess, a New threat will be called.... Laziness.

They'll be nothing compared to Neverending Story 5's villain: The Evil Bad!

Doug destroys the DVD Rob walks in the room: "Hey, Doug, I have some ideas for," "I'M FUCKING THE DVD, I'M FUCKING THE DVD!" "well, see you later." Rob walks out of the room.

Elijah T Doug's wife walks in. "Honey, my parents are here for..." "I'm fucking the DVD! I'm... oh... um hi guys."

+Ash Reprobite why am i seeing you everywhere

yarosh Because I am Godd.

+Ash Reprobite He didn't even buy that dvd dinner yet.

SEGASister That may have been for the best... 🙏

this movie killed him

Coincidence? I think NOT!!

@@JSwanKilowJ This wasn't a movie, this was a fucking assassination 😐

@@SEGASister Yo

Myles Hoglund check out his review of Pearl Harbor; he’ll have legit anger for you to enjoy!

@Inacio's Second Channel it did t come out yet when you made this commeny

Oh, really? Remember "A BAT CREDIT CARD?!?"

@Inacio's Second Channel Those 2 did air before "A Pal for Gary"

@@tysargent9647 Hell, go watch his Garbage Pail Kids review.

He was so ashamed of this thing he actually refused to talk about it in interviews

And at least he got to truly shine with the Kung Fu Panda movies

Just listen to what the fucking family sounds like!

She is acting in Neverending Story III. Any actress would cry.

Why don't you ask Jim Gordon's wife from The Dark Knight

I'm going to take a guess that she was questioning every choice she ever made in life during her scenes.

Causes she in this movie.

Because when she has to be in the movie, she feels constant pain

andrewkful the review of "food fight" made me a fan

SPARKLE SPARKLE!!!

NEON LLAMA SQUAD fuck YEAH sparkle sparkle sparkle!

andrewkful I'm the motherf**king T. rex!

OF COURSE!

Well, then. Here's an oof for you. Ende passed away in 1995. If he was aware of it, he was alive long enough to see the final nail on the coffin of his work.

@@Remememea actually it was only available in Germany(the home country of Michael Ende) while he was alive it wasn’t released in the USA until after Ende died, but he was undergoing treatment for his stomach cancer at the time which unfortunately lead to his death in August of 1995. I imagine if he was aware of this films existence his cancer was more likely on his mind and enjoying what life he had left.

He lost the lawsuit

I don’t understand why he hated the movie it does a decent job as and adaption for the first part of the book I enjoy the film as I enjoy the book, the book is a masterpiece imo

It's like they were rubbing it in even though the novelist of the original story was dead They seem to really wanted to destroy his legacy

J W nah the nerd woulda taken a shit on it

ONE GUY NO CONTINUES??????

@@twisterman4184 More like, "ONLY STYLE, NO SUBSTANCE TOO?!"

And then comes the Not-so-perfection. :P

+TheMrRuttazzo Then the Ehhhhhhhh.

+Paul Walsh and lastly the fuck it were not creative to come up with an original name

Paul Walsh Now I've got it! The villains should be called "The Fourth One", then "The Quickening" and then finally the "Ehenzeeahneh". :D

+Tobias Geis "Oh no what is that feeling...Its not cofortable but its not bad" "Its the rather unpleasant bastian!"

I'm not gonna lie, that would have been a lot cooler than what we got

+edrees attaii That would of been an awesome movie! The Neverending Story: The Nazis' return!

Only in our dreams.

I thought that was what they yelled, I was honestly disappointed that wasn't mentioned.

Well, the book was from Germany :O

well I mean Artax died in the first movie but yeah By the bullshit logic of these sequel movies anything goes, amirite?

@@gamingchinchilla7323 Yep. Although Artex was revived in order for Doug to make a joke involving the Swamp of Sadness.

Yeah where the fuck WAS atreyu? I didn't see him at all in this goddamn movie!?! Maybe he was replaced by tree pube, FUCK THIS MOVIE!!!

David William+ This Movie is more of a sequel to the animated series than the previous two films. Which is why it’s so bad.

@@TZER0 I never knew anything about an animated series

10x more epic at twice the speed...

I think this movie would work better as some kind of Neverending Story parody than a sequel honestly

They should have made a more faithful adaptation of the second half of the novel.

And instead just making one up

lol

Oh shit boy look what you done did you done gave me a Vietnam flashback

That reveal shot was the worth of milk shooting out of my nose.

Correction. 10:02

bigun89

Nasty Even Sounds completely stupid like the whole Movie itself

Iris Confusion Well then I guess it fits.

Of course it fits, they turned rock biter into a sitcom dad that sings Steppenwolf while driving his stone mobile and Falcor is now a drooling fuckwit.Then the empress says we must not do the nasty. Adding a cool name would have seemed off :D

+MrKlausbaudelaire I agree that they should have gotten a better name, but Tite Kubo might have sued if they used the name "the hollow"

michael dorsey nah, the word "hollow" had been used in other medias, such as a chracter in Megaman Starforce called "Hollow".

Fam, we're getting old. LOL

That would actually be very interesting to see.

i need to read that book.

That what the never ending story 2 was loosely based on

That would actually make for a cool part in the film. Maybe if they remake it, they could add that part.

I love how the praised first film has so many differences to the book. Like stuff Atreyu or Falcor say now belong to Bastian and more, lol

KodachiC This must be the O'Bannion tactic.

Doug said it in the commentary.

HEY, BALTHAZAR!

No, but I do get vibes of the Joker killing Jason Todd.

@@tysargent9647 more like Jason todd killing the joker

A guy with a funny yet creepy smile laughing while beating the ever living crap out of something with a crowbar... Yeah, it does remind me of Iron Man.

It's simpler than that. The characters in this movie take their appearances from the short-lived HBO cartoon.

That’s something that could have redeemed this shitfeast

That's a good way to look at it. :D

Actually makes sense to me. You notice TV didn't appear on Fantasia until after they took the book.

@@julieporter7805 Yeah, if the story made it clear that the Nasties basically "infected" Fantasia with their stupidity/evil it would at least play into the plot.

Scott Sandler Probably more that he turned into the NC :P

***** What about it?

Only funny and less annoying

He just went Gordon Freeman on that DVD's A$$

Scott Sandler I love the Blockbuster Buster.

🤦‍♂️ I got a bigger headache now.

@Razh 80 Yeah I think he just said that to make things better. It didn't.

The Cinemaniac who are you the nostalgia critic

When did this become a musical? Lol!

It just made me wish I was watching that movie again. {:-p

THERE SHE IS! THERE SHE IS! AHHH!

Khannnnn

I totally love Wrath of Khan so much I've got it on DVD.

Not me, I think it's fucking stupid

There was a device that made it like that if I recall.

ya

the kid could just rage a while

I rate this comment 10/10.

Furious Sherman XD

I automatically thought of this when I heard the name Bastion XD

In fact, that was the actual reasoning behind the style of this movie- To capitalize the popularity of MTV at the time

Wanna cry together?

@@albertschoise8091 I'll get the buckets.

Holy shit, the "filmmakers" gave them the Last Jedi form of assassination, didn't they?

@@charmandyorton006 what do you mean?

@@wilfur3077 I mean they completely abandoned the preexisting lore to haphazardly throw in new mechanics that fundamentally break the world in order to serve the convenience of the characters' situations. They also swindled the dignity and beloved traits away from characters that were made icons by their presence in the original film(s). Basically, TNES3 panned out kind of like this: - Falcor is portrayed as being a blithering idiot rather than the optimistic and wise Falcor of the original. This is comparable to Luke Skywalker being portrayed as a cowardly grump who almost killed his own nephew just because he sensed darkness inside him rather than the brave Jedi Master Luke of the OT who risked life and limb to save his father although Anakin was already a genocidal, deadly Sith. - The ability to make wishes on command raises the question of "Why doesn't Bastion just wish himself every device possible to save himself and Fantasia?" Bastion holding back on this power inhibits TNES3 from creating any interesting scenarios, challenges or character developments with its own material. This is comparable to Holdo choosing not to simply tell Poe and his crew the plan to escape the First Order, a "gotcha" moment which inhibits TLJ from having any coherency in its plot or doing anything to provide impactful delineations for its own characters. All in all, TNES3 feels like a movie that got Rian Johnsoned hard.

Alex Spooner I don’t want to jinx it and I am sorry for it I really am but why do I have the feeling that they are still making neverending story 4 and they didn’t tell us anything

They're not. This movie killed the franchise. No remake either. They attempted to fix it with Tales from the Neverending Story in 2001 but after one season, nothing had changed. So the scrapped the plans for Season 2. Then in 2014 plans for a remake came along and those were scrapped because of the backlash from The Neverending Story III and feared that the remake would be worse than 3 and in some opinions of others 2 as well. So there is no plans for anymore films at all period

The Neverending Story 4: The return of the Inconvenience

No... But there’s might be a remake. And it can work.

Shhhh dont give them ideas...

I like to theorise that the changes to the characters and environments in Fantasia are due to their tampering that could actually explain the changes very well

Likewise.

The truth in that statement is rather depressing :P

So we have a being made from pure dying imagination that plans to plunge the world into darkness, a queen of pure evil and a group of high school bullies who repeated the third grade one too many times

Bow chicka bow wow! 😂🤣😂🤣

But if you do meet a girl who wants to give in to the nasty, you know you've found a keeper!

This is the saddest trivia I read this week

+Abraxas Preußler I saw the movie long before reading the book, but after reading the book, I felt the same. As a stand-alone movie, the first Neverending Story was good. Compared to the book, though, it was horrible. I'd appreciate a remake à la LOTR.

+Abraxas Preußler I have only ever seen the movie, Never read the book... But will have to do so... I gather its not called "The Neverending Story"...

+Warren „Phoenix“ Marris It IS called "The neverending story" in English or "Die unendliche Geschichte" in German.

KatKaleen Thank you... I will have to look it up... :)

+Abraxas Preußler Ende might not have liked it, but the movie is pretty good in my opinion. It still one of the best child movies. To be honest adapting this book as a movie was a very difficult project. Even nowadays many directors would fails

So understandable. All I could bring myself to do was stare in disbelief.

I'm slammed my head into the ground

it still makes me sick everytime I see them.

That's funny. I don't remember any creatures called "Rock Bitters" in this! I do, however, remember creatures called Rock BITERS. What are Rock Bitters? Please explain.

Joshua Wood You're a riot

TTGO?

@vallaby Teen Titans Go.

@@thepooroldsoul8179 ahhhh!

As Doug said, "its actually jumping the shark, coming back, shooting it in the balls, raping it, eating its flesh, consuming its soul, mounting its head on a wall, and then doing the same thing to 12 more fucking sharks just to be safe!"

You mean Moonchild is the English translation of the original German name from the book. My first introduction to the story was the Finnish translation of the book. In it, the name Bastian gives the empress is Kuuntytär, Moon's daughter. I've always wondered which translation was closer to the original German name, child or daughter.

sk70091 it is child. In german he called her mondkind which is moonchild in english........

ohhh DAMMIT that fact isnt fun when you actually know what he says, now its not as funny when he screams

@@sk70091 considering that it's suppose to be a female name, i think Moon Daughter is also a good translation Also, the Spanish name is "Hija de la Luna" Wich also means Moon's Daughter

It was more like, "MOOOOONCHIIIIILD!"

Sparkle sparkle!!

Fuck ya Sparkle sparkle!

OF COURSE

kenneth walsh Timing!

Sparkle sparkle sparkle!

Yourveryowncarrot it gave me split personalities Jekyll: DADDY BLACK Hyde: Mama Black Jekyll: Daddy! Hyde: Mama!

The screwed up characters might have been more tolerable if it was because the Nasties altered the NeverEnding Story so they'd be that way.

0deadx21 I wonder if Peter Mcdonald (The director for the Never Ending Story III ) was the director who was fired from directing the first Never Ending Story movie, and this was his revenge for that

tripp cory Oh my God i thought exactly the same! Why not just addressing the fact they make the Creatures retarded just for the sake of mischief.

If/when it's finished post it somewhere because I want to read it

Unique name

its even more unique when u find out bastian named the empress after his mother who had that name in our reality

It's not just "Moonchild" It is "MOOOONCHIIIIILLLLLD!"

@@trueloveis4u In the German Version (which, despite the movie was made in english and was only dubbed for german audiences, in my opinion is the original and more accurate version) Bastian doesn't talk about his mothers name.

@VOLD GAMER it shoulda been called "Escape this sequel!" 😂🤣

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He was swearing in that part more than a drunk Irish sailor.

@@sigisoltau6073 he was swearing because it was so bad.i have not seen the film and i thought it was terrible will not see the film after that review.

@@supersaiyaman11589 when he was cussing up a blue streak, I couldn't stop laughing!

InfernosReaper Ya' think?!

Or at least the 2nd One Who already was crap

Hey it worked for Calvin and Hobbes

Nah I'm pretty sure he was trying to get super sayan

roberto landeros then why did he get worse

I think he did

+Tim O'Leary Because he's too wimpy and couldn't make it.

+Ciaran Maher Now you know how those of us who actually watched this movie when it came out felt. I didn't have Doug to bring it to my attention, I was such a big fan of Neverending Story, I watched it on my own, pre-internet land, not knowing the horror I was heading into.

Ghostwalker2061 you and me both. but I still own it and the soundtrack. call me crazy. because I am for spending money on it. >_< but I actually like the soundtrack, minus "Born to Be Wild".

I actually was blissfully unaware that Neverending Story had sequels. Thanks a lot, Doug for forcing me to acknowledge that a wonderful movie had 2 shitty sequels.

"I'm gonna rock his world." ... What was the rating on this again?

Jack: When I get my hands on that slippery weasel, I’m gonna rock his world. Me: You Know, For Kids!

Jack you’re leading The Nasties not The Kinkies

@@AnimeWolf5193 The only one of the franchise to be G rated

Aiijuin Art The producer of this movie, Dieter Geissler ( who happened to also be the producer of the first two movies, Never Ending Story I and II.... go figure), said in an interview during the release of the second film, that they were in the process of writing the third movie. He said it would be more magical than the second and first films and also mentioned that there would be a multi coloured Lion called Grogrammon. They also said that the majority of the film would take place in Fantasia and that his step sister, Nicole, would be reading the book... putting him in danger and then having a change of heart and then helping him. So, here is my question : why the fuck, did they abandon those ideas and instead come up with this??? I mean, why the hell did they fucking change that???? Don't you think their original ideas would have been better??? I don't get it

If Ende had seen the 3rd movie he would had had multiple brain tumors and went blind while also going completely mad.

Garbage Pail Kids?! UGH

Is it a porn movie, sounds like it

It's a terrible Tom Green movie. But yeah it can also be called that too.

I liked Freddy Got Fingered; it was at least funny. But Garbage Pail Kids, fuck that movie. The only movie I've seen that could be argued as worse than Garbage Pail Kids is Movie 43.

Agreed. It's a disgrace towards the original book, the first 2 movies, and basically anything that gives a crap about being anything above horrible.

srbarkerchan he was dead or they couldn't fool someone else into auditioning

srbarkerchan he managed to find a good hiding place till the writers forgot about him...That or casting a Native American in the roll was seen as another unnecessary cruelty visited upon their people and they decided they'd suffered enough.

He saw how bad the world was getting, and said "fuck it" and jumped into the swamp of despair with Artax.