Could be Exhibit A for anyone arguing the case that modern filmmaking lacks a strong sense of story.
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10/28/05
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MirrorMask (2005)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:11
Rotten:14
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: While visually dazzling, there isn't enough story to hang all the fancy effects on.
Theatrical Release:Sep 30, 2005 Limited
Box Office: $802,961
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Stephanie Leonidas, Dora Bryan, Gina McKee, Rob Brydon
Director: Dave McKean
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Reviews for MirrorMask
Top CriticLeonidas walks this tightrope quite engagingly, showing us a girl on the cusp of womanhood, torn between two competing needs -- to become an adult, to remain a child, to vilify, to revere.
10/28/05
Top CriticMcKean'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.
10/27/05
Top CriticToo long, and too rich, for its own good, but clearly Gaiman and McKean were bursting with ideas. Those ideas fly all over the place, sometimes landing with a thunk, but more often taking the breath away.
10/21/05
Top CriticThe narrative is simplistic and lacking in energy, and the characters are sketched instead of fully formed.
10/21/05
Top CriticIt's a near-flawless marriage of content and form, a movie that kids, adults and graduate students of computer imagery will all have their own reasons to love.
10/13/05
Top CriticIt’s so beautiful and so different and has such a unique feel to it.
10/03/05
Top CriticEach scene is a masterwork of composition and execution.
10/01/05
Top CriticOther efforts of this sort have succumbed to terminal whimsy, but director Dave McKean gives us enough reminders of the girl's fragile emotional state to provide some grounding.
09/30/05
Top CriticToo strange and disjointed to attract much of an audience, but its astonishing visuals showcase a major new talent: first-time feature director and book illustrator Dave McKean.
09/30/05
Top CriticLike many dreams, you won't remember it when you wake up.
09/30/05
Top CriticA blur of arty effects.
09/30/05
Top CriticIf you can fall into it, you should be amazed, if not enchanted.
09/30/05
Top CriticAggressive visual invention is rarely its own reward, and this movie does nothing to better the odds.
09/30/05
Top CriticIf MirrorMask is a marvel of visual ingenuity, its monochromatic panoramas are too busy and flat to yield an illusion of depth or to convey a feeling of characters moving in space.
09/29/05
Top CriticThere is something oddly intoxicating about Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman's coming-of-age fantasy.
09/29/05
Top CriticSo single-minded in its reach for fantasy, it becomes the genre's evil opposite: banality.
09/29/05
Top CriticFor all its flying cats with rainbow wings and navigational library books, MirrorMask barely has a story, its talent and vision focused entirely on its singular dreamworld facade.
09/29/05
Top CriticThe fever-dream universe cooked up by McKean is so brimming with off-the-wall imagination, one wishes it weren't all so hard to penetrate.
09/29/05
Top CriticThe eye is sated, but the mind wanders.
09/29/05
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