The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter

The NeverEnding Story II The Next Chapter is a 1990 GermanAmerican fantasy film and sequel to The NeverEnding Story. It was directed by George T. Miller and starred Jonathan Brandis as Bastian Bux, Kenny Morrison as Atreyu, and Alexandra Johnes as the Childlike Empress. The only actor to return from the first film was Thomas Hill as Mr. Koreander.

Bastian Bux Jonathan Brandis is having troubles at home his father Barneys John Wesley Shipp busy workload is keeping him from consoling Bastians fear of heights. As such, he then heads to an old bookstore where he again meets Mr. Koreander Thomas Hill, who proceeds to help find a book on courage. While waiting, Bastian rediscovers the Neverending Storys book, and is shocked to see its words disappear off its pages. Deciding to take the book instead, Bastian returns home and finds himself able to claim AURYN right off the books cover while hearing the Childlike Empress Alexandra Johnes summon him to Fantasia.Aware of his arrival, an evil sorceress named Xayide Clarissa Burt orders a creation from one of her servants to stop him. The servant creates a memory machine that will strip Bastian of a memory each time he uses AURYN, until he is unable to remember where he came from, or why he is in Fantasia. Xayide then sends a talking birdlike creature named Nimbly Martin Umbach to persuade Bastian into making him wish. As the two arrive in a populated area of Fantasia called Silver City, the sorceress sends large monsters referred to as giants to attack. Despite Nimblys attempts to make him wish them away, Bastian is able to escape from them without doing so. After falling into a secret passage, Bastian is contacted by the Childlike Empress, who tells him of a new threatening force to Fantasia, which is keeping her prisoner in her own castle as well as causing the stories of the ordinary world to disappear, and that he must identify and defeat it. ........

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