Mirrormask
Set in a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, the movie follows a 15-year-old (Stephanie Leonidas) as she journeys through a parallel reality to recover the fabled MirrorMask that will revive a queen.
29 August 1958, Dudley, West Midlands, England, UK
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April 29, 2009
An alluring original piece of fantasy...
October 28, 2005
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.
October 21, 2005
The narrative is simplistic and lacking in energy, and the characters are sketched instead of fully formed.
January 05, 2009
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.
February 01, 2012
Mirrormask eventually establishes itself as an thoroughly interminable piece of work that substitutes endless creativity for context and character development...
October 28, 2005
Could be Exhibit A for anyone arguing the case that modern filmmaking lacks a strong sense of story.
October 27, 2005
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.
December 15, 2010
Dense, dreamlike fantasy isn't for every kid.
February 07, 2006
This one-of-a-kind fantasy film may be seen as a classic someday, possibly quite soon.
October 21, 2005
A 30-minute idea wrapped in a 100-minute movie. It's a jewel box filled with cubic zirconia.
July 18, 2008
MirrorMask proves that a movie can be brilliant and awful at the same time.
October 21, 2005
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 away.
