Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

mads leonard holvik This was aired on norwegian TV in my childhood years. I still remember the catching intro, with one of the fraggles nearly getting caught by the troll. I think this was a very good show, so I re-watched a couple of episodes on youtube the other day. And then I realised that the dozers who build all the strange edible structures inside the hill, are doing it because they want the fraggles to eat the structures. I always thought the fraggles were just destroying everything, being devoid of empaty with the labouring dozers. So that was interesting. The best part of the show I think is the post card from Uncle travelling Matt. He always observes the humans from an angle, and sends home very philosophical post cards. At one time he was down at the bay, and fell into a fishing boat, where he saw some fishermen mending a fishing net. He found it very strange that they spent their time making holes, and then went out to sea to throw the holes into the ocean. He concluded it had to be some kind of ritual that his mind could not comprehend. This is children's TV as it should be.

Scapegoat_Y Everything was better in past days. Even children's television. And Fraggle Rock proves my point quite easily. At the time of writing this comment I am fourteen years old but even in my teen years I can't resist the charm of Fraggle Rock. For those of you that have indeed been living under a rock (haha!), Fraggle Rock is about a horde of playful and goofy creatures called Fraggles who live-amazingly-in a rock. But they're not the only creatures. The rock is inhabited with many other species like the hardworking Doozers and countless living plants. Outside the rock on one side live inventor-scientist Doc and his dog Sprocket (who later befriends Gobo Fraggle), on the other side a family of Gorgs-supposed rulers of the Universe. The five main Fraggles Gobo (fearless leader), Mokey (arty and peaceful), Wembley (indecisive and a friend to Gobo), Boober (a pessimistic domestic god) and Red (loves anything to do with sport and general feistyness)get caught up in some strange situations each episode while at the same time sing and dance their cares away.Fraggle Rock is definitely a family show-the plots may have intricate details that infants may not follow well, but the song-and-dance routines will hold their attention. The characters are strong and likable, their conflicts believable and their adventures thrilling. The Gorgs are frightening, Doc and Sprocket enlightening, Uncle Travelling Matt hilarious (the postcard segments are very 80s!) and the final episode, Change of Address, genuinely touching. Let's go down to Fraggle Rock again!

bendy_boy Anything related to the Muppets and/or Sesame Stret (old format) had to be good. This show was fantastic! I will always have fond memories of this show and how much I loved it. It was such a feel-good show without ever once being cheezy.

La Gremlin Here we have a children's series that creates a world with a totally believable and frighteningly delicate ecology of creatures who really want nothing to do with each other (though they never really say so) but are completely dependent on one another. A series for children that's unafraid to tackle issues such as death, war, religion, self-sacrifice, self-actualization, and interdependency, all without resorting to "preachification" (a term from the series). The fact that "Fraggle Rock" achieved all this *and* kept the tone light and the attitude playful is nothing short of a true miracle."Fraggle Rock" has to be my all time favorite series as a kid, and looking back as an adult, I realize how ambitious it was. Leave it to Jim Henson to build an entire world that was so believable, you wanted to visit it. I am certain that this was a once in a lifetime thing. There will *never* be another series with this much imagination or dedication to its young audience. Too bad, as today we need this series' gentle messages more so than ever.Recently, a few episode of "Fraggle Rock" were released on video. For many of us, these are the only ones we have access to, and I believe that a *real* "Fraggle Rock" fan should have been put in charge of which episodes were preserved. Instead, while volume three (entitled "the Fraggles Search and Find") has the two greatest episodes of all time in my opinion, the remaining tapes' episodes appear to have been chosen at random. Get tape three if you can!