The NeverEnding Story III

The NeverEnding Story III Escape from Fantasia also known as The NeverEnding Story III Return to Fantasia is a 1994 film and the second sequel to the fantasy film The NeverEnding Story following the first sequel The NeverEnding Story II The Next Chapter. It starred Jason James Richter as the principal character Bastian Bux, and Jack Black in one of his early roles as the protagonists tormentor, the school bully Slip. The special creature effects were provided by Jim Hensons Creature Shop. The movie is considered apocryphal and has no connection to the source material of the book beyond the usage of characters from it.

Protagonist Bastian Balthazar Bux Jason James Richter has grown older, and his father Barney Kevin McNulty has married a woman named Jane Tracey Ellis whose daughter Nicole Melody Kay is displeased at having a new family. Bastian has also started high school, where he has become victim to the Nasties a quintet of bullies led by Slip Jack Black. He arranges them expelled with the help of the janitor Mark Acheson after they trap him in the boiler room, and flees to the library where he is surprised to find Mr. Koreander Freddie Jones and the Neverending Story. The Nasties locate him, but he uses the book to escape to Fantasia, where he is reunited with Falkor William Hootkins, Engywook, and Urgl Tony Robinson and Moya Brady. On Earth, the Nasties find the Neverending Story and use it to bombard Fantasia with fireballs and a storm. With a walking tree named Bark Troll William Hootkins, Bastian and his friends head for the Wandering Mountains to speak with the Childlike Empress Julie Cox, who asks Bastian to find the Neverending Story with the AURYN. Falkor, Barky, the gnomes, and the Rock Biters son, Junior, help him but a wish overload scatters across Earth, where Barky ends up in a conifer forest Falkor saves Junior from falling to his death near Mount Rushmore and the gnomes arrive in Nome, Alaska. Bastian locates Falkor and Junior, and Falkor flies off to find the others while Junior stays at Bastians house. Rock Biter sadly informs his wife that Junior is gone, and the Nasties provoke them to quarrel.Nicole takes the AURYN from Bastians room, discovers its wishing abilities, and takes it for a shopping trip to the local mall. Bark Troll arrives at Bastians house disguised as a garden plant, while the Gnomes are mailed to him in a box. The reunited group go in search of Nicole but the Nasties find the AURYN first, whereupon giant crustacean creatures appear in Fantasia to kill the Empress and her advisors. Everyone in the mall turns to evil, including Mr. Koreande

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