History Film / TheNeverEndingStory1984

* {{World-Healing Wave}}

* LarynxDissonance: First-time viewers may be [[ViewerGenderConfusion thrown off by the voice,]] but the singer of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJsd9VAIrus theme song]] was '''''a guy!'''''

* IdiotBall: Bastian seems to be clutching the idiot ball for dear life in the sequel, in for no other reason is how easily he's manipulated by the villain. You'd think he'd be less inclined to make wishes, particularly for such reasons, when the self-professed villain and her bird-boy lackey (who he should be able to notice is working for the villain) both keep insisting he make wishes. Not only that, he accepts magical (possibly boobytrapped) gifts from her and despite knowing and having far more reason to trust Atreyu than her, for some reason continues act like Atreyu is some kind of idiot when he insists the villain shouldn't be trusted.

* EnforcedMethodActing: That look of shock on Atreyu's face and how dazed he looks getting up after he kills Gmork? That was real. Apparently, they didn't realize how heavy the mechanical wolf puppet could be, and when they shot the scene, it almost knocked out Atreyu's actor. They decided not to try for a second shot after he revealed the claws almost poked out [[EyeScream one of his eyes too.]]

* WorldHealingWave

* FramingDevice: The first film starts off looking like this trope is in effect. Until you realise that Fantasia is another dimension and not just a story being read by Bastion

* DramaticThunder: Near the end of the first movie.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The Sphinx have very prominent bare breasts. Said breasts also come with fairly notable nipples. The scene involve shows them a lot. The mood takes away from that, however.

MichaelEnde's novel ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'' spawned three movies. The first one was very well received (except by, among others, Ende himself, who sued unsuccessfully to have the name changed because he disliked it so much and had his name taken out of the writing credits), the second less so, and the third is deeply unpopular. The first movie was based on the first half of the book and the second (rather more loosely) on the second half, while the third was not based on it at all apart from having the Old Man of Wandering Mountain show up.

* JerkSue: Bastian is the book's second half, a fully aware use of the trope.

* WeHaventLearnedAnythingYet: The end of the third movie has [[CreatorsPet the bark troll]] tell us to "Be careful what you wish for", even though the whole crisis was caused directly (or indirectly, the movie never makes it clear) by [[BigBad the Nasties]] messing with the book.

** The live action series ''Tales from the Neverending Story'' goes with the "Moon Child was inspired by Bastian's mother's name" idea from the movie (despite being yet another AlternateContinuity), but clarifies that her actual name was Selene (after the Greek moon goddess).

* WhoNamesTheirKidDude: This is more like, "Who Named Their Mother Moon Child?"... at least if you both read the book and saw the English version of the first film adaptation, because near the end of the film, Bastian shouts out the name of Moon Child given to the Childlike Empress after his dead mother.

* PlotBasedVoiceCancellation: When Bastian shouts the Childlike Empress's name, it's inaudible under the DramaticThunder and the soundtrack, perhaps as a deliberate stylistic choice on the part of the director, so that each viewer could imagine the name to be whatever they wanted. The closed captioning even reads "''shouting''". (The name is actually "Moon Child", same as in the book.)

* PlotBasedVoiceCancellation: When Bastian shouts the Childlike Empress's name, it's inaudible under the DramaticThunder and the soundtrack, perhaps as a deliberate stylistic choice on the part of the director, so that each viewer could imagine the name to be whatever they wanted. The closed captioning even reads "''shouting''". (It's actually "Moon Child", same as in the book.)
** Not quite. If you listen closely, he's shouting "Moon Child, I'm coming!"

** One of the largest US Army bases is in Germany, over 100,000 strong, so there's bound to be spillover.

MichaelEnde's novel ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'' spawned three movies. The first one was very well received (except by, among others, Ende himself, who sued unsuccessfully to have the name changed because he disliked it so much and had his name taken out of the writing credits), the second less so, and the third is deeply unpopular. The first movie was based on the first half of the book and the second (rather more loosely) on the second half, while the third was not based on it at all apart from having the Historian show up.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Alan Oppenheimer voices Falcor. To [[HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse He-Man]] fans he's known for voicing Skeletor.

* TheOtherDarrin: The second movie has only one of the main actors. The third has a new lot of actors.

* RaimiVision: Gmork was shot in this style.