I love the look and creativity of this film. Too bad the story isn’t something worth dreaming about.
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09/30/05
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MirrorMask (2005)
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Reviews Counted:85
Fresh:45
Rotten:40
Average Rating:5.8/10
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
McKean, who both directed and designed the film, employs an array of techniques -- cel animation, computer animation and puppetry -- in wild and witty variations.
09/30/05
Some very creative comic book artistry morphs into a film but fails to find significant connection with the sought after unconscious.
09/30/05
Sometimes art direction really is enough.
09/30/05
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09/30/05
I struggled mightily to stay awake through large stretches of Mirrormask.
09/30/05
Inarguably a visual masterpiece, its story has been so stretched past all barriers of comprehension it leaves its viewers bewildered about what they experienced.
09/30/05
Its quaintness probably stands as its most recommending characteristic.
09/29/05
Plays less like a cohesive film and more like a collection of amazing scenes.
09/29/05
this admittedly stupendous-looking film deserves quite a lot of credit for trying, even if the end result never quite makes it
09/29/05
If 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
So single-minded in its reach for fantasy, it becomes the genre's evil opposite: banality.
09/29/05
Top CriticAt best, Helena's wiggy adventures recall such Jean Cocteau films as Orpheus and Blood of a Poet. At worst, they resemble the Vegas act of Cirque du Soleil.
09/29/05
The magical images will engage and fire the imagination of the audience, even if the story sometimes feels cool and understated.
09/29/05
For 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
The 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 CriticMirrormask is as breathtakingly beautiful to behold as it is tedious to slog through.
09/29/05
The eye is sated, but the mind wanders.
09/29/05
Top CriticThe movie is a triumph of visual invention, but it gets mired in its artistry and finally becomes just a whole lot of great stuff to look at while the plot puts the heroine through a few basic moves over and over again.
09/29/05
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