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List Price: $14.94 Our Price: $7.49 You Save: $7.45 Features • AC-3 • Color • Dolby • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2005 DVD Release : 14 February, 2006 |
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Mirrormask description This visually stunning film is the product of a collaboration of award-winning graphic novelist Neil Gaiman (creator of the much-lauded Sandman series), his frequent collaborator Dave McKean (Cages), and The Jim Henson Company, themselves no strangers to elaborate fantasies such as The Dark Crystal. and Labyrinth. As with the latter film, MirrorMask focuses on a young woman unhappy with her daily existence; here, the artistically inclined Helena (Stephanie Leonides), is at odds with her circus performer parents. When a careless insult appears to send her mother (Gina McKee) into a coma, Helena withdraws into the dark and elaborate world of her drawings, in which a scenario very similar to her predicament in the real world is unfolding. Gaiman and director McKean create arresting images to populate Helena's world, and the Henson Company brings them vividly to life with CGI; though the story is occasionally murky, the fantasy elements are imaginative enough to enthrall what will undoubtedly be the film's toughest customers--younger viewers. --Paul Gaita |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Not what I expected |
| Mirror Mask is sold as part of a "trilogy" with Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. I bought this expecting the same visual enjoyment of those movies and was very disappointed.
This film is very dark, with minimum colors, computer generated imagery, and the fantastic elements don't even begin until 20 minutes into the film. Visually this has more in common with "Sky Captain" or "The City of Lost Children" then either of the Jim Henson movies. Where Labyrinth and Dark Crystal can appeal to both children and adults, with vibrant colors, stunning imagery and puppets beginning almost immediately, "Mirror Mask" is practically monochromatic, with a story about a teenage girl who's mother is sick that just doesn't excite the watcher. The surreal quality of this DVD most children will probably find dull and the only musical interlude seems to have nothing to do with the rest of the story. My advice, if you want a Jim Henson movie, don't get this. If you want a fairy tale for adults with a simple story and visual effect that are a cross between Tim Burton and Picasso, then you may enjoy this. |
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