MirrorMask (Blu-ray) PG
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region ABC (Worldwide)
- Released: November 18, 2008
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Stephanie Leonidas | |
Performer: | Dora Bryan, Gina McKee, Rob Brydon, Andy Hamilton, Jason Barry & Robert Llewellyn | |
Directed by | Dave McKean | |
Edited by | Nicolas Gaster | |
Music by | Iain Bellamy | |
Screenwriting by | Neil Gaiman | |
Cinematography by | Tony Shearn | |
Produced by | Lisa Henson, Michael Polis & Simon Moorhead |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 1/4 --
Mirrormask eventually establishes itself as an thoroughly interminable piece of work that substitutes endless creativity for context and character development...
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Reel Film Reviews
Rating: 72/100 --
The story is interesting, in a twisted fairytale sort of way, but the novelty of this dream world does eventually wear off, and we're left checking our watches.
Apollo Guide
Rating: 3/5 --
A 30-minute idea wrapped in a 100-minute movie. It's a jewel box filled with cubic zirconia.
Orlando Sentinel
Rating: 3/5 --
Dense, dreamlike fantasy isn't for every kid.
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Common Sense Media
An alluring original piece of fantasy...
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Cinema Crazed
[With] a winning WIZARD OF OZ-style structure...[and] a resplendent universe of impossible vistas and fabulous beings.
Uncut
Rating: 3/5 --
McKean's inexperience as a director trips the film. There is so much going on that the viewer can't take in all the imagery, and McKean's devotion to his skewed vision slows the story to a crawl.
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Arizona Republic
Product Description:
Reminiscent of ALICE IN WONDERLAND and LABYRINTH, MIRRORMASK is a fantasy tale of an intelligent young girl on a journey through a magical world. It is also a visually astounding piece of filmmaking, updating the fairy-tale quest in a coming-of-age story imbued with dark beauty. Written by Neil Gaiman (SANDMAN) and directed by frequent collaborator and illustrator Dave McKean, the film mixes live action and animation, and manages to keep the graphic novelists' aesthetic largely intact: the frames are full of weirdly-skewed perspectives, foggy patches, and mismatched textures that appear grandly decayed. Stephanie Leonidas plays Helena, a young girl who juggles in her father's circus, but longs for a "normal" life. She spends her free time drawing elaborate, fantastical black-and-white pictures which cover every surface of her bedroom. One night, after an argument with her mother (Gina McKee) during which Helena lets fly some rather painful pronouncements, Mom falls ill with an unspecified affliction. As the family waits for news and the circus struggles financially, Helena blames herself for the misfortune. The night before her mother's surgery, Helena is mysteriously transported to a world which bears a strong resemblance to her own drawings, and is populated by strange creatures who follow an even stranger logic. Helena and her traveling companion, fellow juggler Valentine (Jason Barry), sign on to find a mysterious charm which will wake the queen of the city--also played by McKee--from her deep sleep, defeating the forces of darkness and returning Helena home. The film's outstanding art direction is complemented by witty dialogue and some genuinely creepy moments (the words "don't let them see you're afraid" are chill-inducing). Meanwhile, Leonidas's performance is remarkable, maintaining a likeability, charm, and freshness that is all the more amazing considering it was delivered against a green screen, with her special-effect co-stars edited in later.
Description by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:
The White Queen sleeps and will not wake. Black shadows have fallen across her kingdom. The balance between Dark and Light is broken and only the MIRRORMASK can restore it. So Helena, a stranger in a strange land, embarks on an epic quest to find the missing charm before darkness envelops the Dreamworld forever. Written by award-winning fantasy writer Neil Gaiman, MIRRORMASK is a phantasmagorical treat for the eyes and mind, a wondrous blend of live action and CG animation, where strange, magical creatures dwell in a fantasy world of unbridled imagination and scope, as told through the spectacular, cutting-edge visuals of designer/director Dave McKean.