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After watching "Life after Flash," which came with the 4K special release of "Flash Gordon," I was intrigued to learn that Lisa Downs had been working on a new documentary, "Life after the Navigator." This documentary detailed the making of "The Flight of the Navigator" and its star, Joey Cromer. Like "Life After Flash," it provided all the nerdy behind-the-scenes information I could want, but more importantly, it showed the very human side of making movies. Warts and all.

Now, with "Life after The Neverending Story," we get the truth about the making of the incredible "The Neverending Story" and its stars, who were treated well by production but were let down by the studio system. It was great to see Colin Arthur, whose work inspired me-along with Jim Henson's Creature Shop-to get into the business. Ultimately, I ended up working in VFX and the video games industry. The team that brought the movie to life told very human stories about the making of an incredible film.

I am very much looking forward to the other "Life After" movies in the series. Lisa Downs and Ashley Pugh are the two people who can faithfully tell all about the making of a classic film-warts and all-and what it took to make it.

An excellent show, let down by Amazon Prime's terrible automatic English language subtitles system which don't always kick in during the Spanish language sequences. Would have been far better for Amazon to have burned the subtitles into the master rather than rely on the Amazon app to do it for them. Very inconsistent.

A good effort, with some decent acting, creature make-up and some interesting sets, but sadly lacks any kind of humour, spontaneity and all the things that made TV series like Knightmare, The Crystal Maze and even Fort Boyard interesting and fun to watch. It's far too polished and controlled by the producers and is in no way "immersive" as they claim to be.

The stakes are so incredibly low. There is literally nothing to lose here other than the plot of the storyline. There are no prizes to be won. The contestants are therefore not much more than glorified actors that occasionally must solve puzzles - the rest of the time they're told what to say and do.

Plus there's far too much post-production work that further drives home that this is highly controlled, cheap way of getting a knock-off fantasy series that's disguised as some kind of real-life puzzle adventure game show. It doesn't know which genre it wants to be in.