| | Mirrormask Blu-ray (1 Customer Review)
| Category | Blu-ray DVDs, Education Movies, Horror Videos, Children's, Family, Science-Fiction/Fantasy, Fantasy, Teenage, Animated/Live-Action, Dreams, Animated/Live-Action | | Starring | Stephanie Leonidas, Jason Barry, Gina McKee, Dora Bryan, Robert Llewellyn, Rob Brydon, Andy Hamilton | | Director | Dave McKean | | Cinematographer | Tony Shearn | | Editor | Nicolas Gaster | | Music | Iain Bellamy | | Producer | Lisa Henson, Simon Moorhead, Michael Polis | | Screenwriter | Neil Gaiman |
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 filmmaking, updating the fairy-tale quest in a coming-of-age story imbued with dark beauty. Written by Neil Gaiman (SANDMAN) and directed by frequent collaborator and illustrator Dave McKean, the film mixes live action and animation, and manages to keep the graphic novelists' aesthetic largely intact: the frames are full of weirdly-skewed perspectives, foggy patches, and mismatched textures that appear grandly decayed. Stephanie Leonidas plays Helena, a young girl who juggles in her father's circus, but longs for a "normal" life. She spends her free time drawing elaborate, fantastical black-and-white pictures which cover every surface of her bedroom. One night, after an argument with her mother (Gina McKee) during which Helena lets fly some rather painful pronouncements, Mom falls ill with an unspecified affliction. As the family waits for news and the circus struggles financially, Helena blames herself for the misfortune. The night before her mother's surgery, Helena is mysteriously transported to a world which bears a strong resemblance to her own drawings, and is populated by strange creatures who follow an even stranger logic. Helena and her traveling companion, fellow juggler Valentine (Jason Barry), sign on to find a mysterious charm which will wake the queen of the city--also played by McKee--from her deep sleep, defeating the forces of darkness and returning Helena home. The film's outstanding art direction is complemented by witty dialogue and some genuinely creepy moments (the words "don't let them see you're afraid" are chill-inducing). Meanwhile, Leonidas's performance is remarkable, maintaining a likeability, charm, and freshness that is all the more amazing considering it was delivered against a green screen, with her special-effect co-stars edited in later.
Theatrical Release: September 30, 2005
Mirrormask Reviews: "MIRRORMASK ambitiously draws on a diverse range of influences....McKean treats every frame of film as it were a strip panel scheduled for reproduction in a glossy art book."
-- Kim Newman, Sight and Sound "[With] a winning WIZARD OF OZ-style structure...[and] a resplendent universe of impossible vistas and fabulous beings."
-- Geoff Andrew, Uncut "MIRRORMASK unspools with the rambling, intuitive digressions of a dream..." -- Grade: A-
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly "[The film] blends live action with computer-generated animation by the Jim Henson Company into a provocative, murky surrealism."
-- Stephen Holden, New York Times Mirrormask | List Price | $28.95 (You save $5.56) | | Studio | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 2005 | | All Time Sales Rank |  112351  | | CD Universe Part number | 7727985 | | Catalog number | 27385 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Nov 18, 2008 | | Rating | PG (MPAA) | | Running Time | 101 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled |
Mirrormask Movie Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)  breath taking
amazing visuals,it is labyrinth meets pans labyrinth,very well filmed,a modern day fairy tale
Submitted by magnhamburg (fort drum newyork) 
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This is a beautiful film that is short on narrative but long on imagination about a girl who becomes a woman. If you can get through about the first fifteen minutes the film pays off. It moves along effortlessly and has many funny moments. Jason Barry is good as Valentine.
Submitted by tintin84105 (Woods Cross, UT, USA)
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MUST SEE MOVIE
I loved this movie,the flying books and the really useful book was hilarious.Neil Gaiman strikes again with this hit. You should see it. its great.
Submitted by Raleigh Forbe (NEW York)
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This review is for a different format. Brilliant
If you have ever read one of Neil Gaiman's novels, you know how brilliant he is as a storyteller. This movie brings to life the words on the page and watching it is just like reading a book, except it is there on the screen.
I think if anyone other than Neil Gaiman did this then it would not be half as good as it is. But as I mentioned before, Neil Gaiman is awesome.
Buy it and stick with it. It is totally warped, totally twisted and one of the best movies I have ever seen!
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Mirrormask DVD The White Queen sleeps and will not wake. Black shadows have fallen across her kingdom. The balance between Dark and Light is broken and only the MIRRORMASK can restore it. So Helena, a stranger in a strange land, embarks on an epic quest to find the missing charm before darkness envelops the Dreamworld forever. Written by award-winning fantasy writer Neil Gaiman, MIRRORMASK is a phantasmagorical treat for the eyes and mind, a wondrous blend of live action and CG animation, where strange, magical creatures dwell in a fantasy world of unbridled imagination and scope, as told through the spectacular, cutting-edge visuals of designer/director Dave McKean.
Source: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Blu-Ray Disc Features:
Region ABC
Anamorphic Widescreen
1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital TrueHD 5.1 - English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai
Subtitles - Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish,
Thai - Optional
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