
In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year-old girl named Helena who works at the family circus with her father and mother, who wishes--quite ironically--that she could run away from the circus and join 'real life'. But such is not to be the case, as she finds herself on a strange journey into the Dark Lands, a fantastic landscape filled with giants, Monkeybirds and dangerous sphinxes. She must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get back home.... (Full plot summary below)
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In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year-old girl named Helena who works at the family circus with her father and mother, who wishes--quite ironically--that she could run away from the circus and join 'real life'. But such is not to be the case, as she finds herself on a strange journey into the Dark Lands, a fantastic landscape filled with giants, Monkeybirds and dangerous sphinxes. She must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get back home.
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| Orlando WeeklySteve SchneiderLuscious evidence that the look of modern fantasy cinema can amount to more than bald-faced Tim Burton swipes arriving 15 years after the fact. |
| Dallas Morning NewsPhilip WuntchEach scene is a masterwork of composition and execution. |
| Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)Jeffrey WesthoffMany graphic novels are being turned into movies these days. MirrorMask is a movie that would work better as a graphic novel. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThis dazzling reverie of a kids-and-adults movie, an unusual collaboration between lord-of-the-cult multimedia artist Dave McKean and king-of-the-comics Neil Gaiman (The Sandman), has something to astonish everyone. |
| Baltimore SunMichael SragowMirrormask is a gorgeous psychedelic cameo of a movie. |
| Boston HeraldJames VerniereIt is visionary in the best sense of the word, if also somewhat thinly plotted, narratively derivative and even at times dull. But it is eye candy of Godiva-like richness. |
| The Stranger (Seattle, WA)Andrew WrightA unique new world, crammed to the gills with invention, which comes off as almost completely static. A fantasy can be a lot of things, but dull shouldn't be one of them. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Hewitt (St. Paul)Emotionally direct and visually baroque, MirrorMask reminded me of Queen's epic songs, which find over-the-top ways to explore everyday situations. |
| San Francisco ChronicleWalter V. AddiegoOther 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. |
| Los Angeles Daily NewsBob StraussOften feels embalmed by art direction and needless exposition. It also begins with a sock puppet sequence, which more experienced filmmakers would have known is among the best ways to start a movie off on the wrong foot. |