Synopsis
In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home.
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Cast
- Stephanie LeonidasHelena / Anti-Helena
- Jason BarryValentine
- Rob BrydonMorris Campbell / Prime Minister
- Gina McKeeJoanne Campbell / Queen of Light / Queen of Shadows
- Dora BryanAunt Nan
- Stephen FryLibrarian
- Robert LlewellynGryphon
- Lenny HenryCops 1-4
- Nik RobsonPingo / Bing
- Simon HarveySphinx
Recommendations
- 91
Entertainment Weekly
This 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. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
If "The Wizard of Oz" were reborn in the 21st century, it might look a lot like MirrorMask. A product of the Jim Henson laboratory, the film is endlessly inventive with creativity to burn. - 75
Christian Science Monitor
At best, Helena's wiggy adventures recall such Jean Cocteau films as "Orpheus" and "Blood of a Poet." At worst, they resemble the Vegas act of Cirque du Soleil. - 70
The A.V. Club
Episodic, detached, and lacking in drive, but packed with amazing, hallucinatory dream-imagery that makes real dreams look flat by comparison. - 70
Dallas Observer
The movie combines drawings, photos, hazy filters, superimpositions and computer effects into a pastiche both beautiful and disturbing. - 60
Film Threat
What it makes up for with sheer visual magic it lacks in coherent plotline. - 50
L.A. Weekly
Crafted by hand and computer, Mirrormask is as breathtakingly beautiful to behold as it is tedious to slog through. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
Watching MirrorMask, I suspected the filmmakers began with a lot of ideas about how the movie should look, but without a clue about pacing, plotting or destination.
