Jason Barry,
Rob Brydon,
Stephanie Leonidas,
Gina McKee,
Robert Brydon
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Celebrated sci-fi writer Neil Gaiman, who created the Sandman series, scripted this visually adventurous fantasy. Helena (Stephanie Leonidas) is a 15-year-old girl who has spent nearly her entire life... read more
Directed by: Dave McKean
Release Date: September 30, 2005
DVD Release Date: January 10, 2006
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July 8, 2008This is a really splendid visual feast. Neil Gaiman's story, Jim Hensons Company and Davie Mckea produce a wonderful feast for the eyes with a nifty little fantasy story. Well done.
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February 4, 2012Way too much surrealism for my taste, but I gotta give credit to the creators for making something so incredibly imaginative. I really wanted to like it more than I did, but the visual style just wasn't my cup of tea. In fact, I was rather annoyed and put off by it. Nice performa... read more
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May 29, 2011It is a very imaginative movie that won't make sense at first. Most of the visuals were just awesome. And I liked the song where Helena was having a makeover. But I'm not really sure about recommending since it didn't amazed me that much.
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May 18, 2011This has got to be one of the strangest lloking movies i've ever seen. The cgi and hazed lighting they used is completely fake looking, but in a way that you see it as a fantasy world rather than bad production value. I think for the style trying to be achieved, that it works ext... read more
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September 19, 2010With her mother due to undergo surgery, a circus girl enters a dream where an evil queen and a good queen fight for control of a magical land (and for the girl's soul, obviously). It's virtues mildly outweigh its faults and its hard to dislike, but this LABYRINTH-style psycholog... read more
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March 24, 2010Some of the visuals were kind of cool, but I really don't see much of a point in this film.
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July 20, 2009Dave McKean's directing credits may be small at this time, but MirrorMask is one fantasy adventure to not be ashamed of.
The story for MirrorMask is like if Alice and Wonderland were mashed together with Labyrinth. I'm not saying that is what it is,
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June 30, 2009Mirrormask is one of the strangest and most imaginative films I've seen in a long time. It begs comparisons to an earlier Jim Henson film called Labyrinth. Both movies are about a troubled girl on a quest to save a kingdom, meeting all sorts of creatures along the way. In Mirr... read more
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December 6, 2008Who said that LSD left right after that Alice and Wonderland was made a movie. The person who wrote this had to have some type of drugs. Its a pretty wild movie. Made for Children, well I am not sure about that. Well for $4.99 at Bestbuy its worth it. So its in my collection.
Critic Reviews
October 28, 2005
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
October 28, 2005
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Leonidas 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. Full Review
October 27, 2005
Michael Senft, Arizona Republic
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. Full Review
October 21, 2005
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Too 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 a...
October 21, 2005
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
A 30-minute idea wrapped in a 100-minute movie. It's a jewel box filled with cubic zirconia. Full Review
October 21, 2005
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
The narrative is simplistic and lacking in energy, and the characters are sketched instead of fully formed. Full Review
October 13, 2005
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
It'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. Full Review
October 3, 2005
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
It's so beautiful and so different and has such a unique feel to it. Full Review
October 1, 2005
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News
Each scene is a masterwork of composition and execution. Full Review
September 30, 2005
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
Other 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. Full Review
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