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Laws of the Jungle: Football's Monkey Business

Brian Laws and Alan Biggs

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Brian Laws has played in all four professional divisions of English football. He has also managed at...

Twenty-First Century Lesbian Studies

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An enlightening, entertaining look at what the term "lesbian" really means--and what it means to be...

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User-friendly iPhone and iPad app for ING accounts including transaction, savings, business, home...

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Klammer “translates” Microsoft to Apple – now your Apple device can open and read all kinds...

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Assalamu alaikum to everyone. Do you recite the Holy Quran Sharif regularly? If it’s yes, then we...

Ronyell (38 KP) rated MirrorMask (2005) in Movies

Aug 4, 2020

MirrorMask (2005)

2005 | Drama, Family, Sci-Fi

8.0

(6 Ratings)

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The Mirror World of Weirdness

Now, I will admit that even though I have read many of Neil Gaiman's works, I had never heard of this movie before, until just recently and I must admit that I really enjoyed this movie a lot! What was the most interesting thing to me about this movie was that the drawings that Helena had drawn throughout the film was none other than Dave McKean's drawings, who was well known for doing a lot of the artwork for Neil Gaiman's books! I loved the way that the drawings provided a haunting and surreal atmosphere for the film as I found myself either being memorized by the imagery (the scenes with the City of Lights were beautiful) or being frightened by the imagery (the scenes with the sphinx cats really creep me out). I also loved the fact that this film is somewhat of a spiritual successor to "Labyrinth," another film from the Jim Henson Company, as both films dealt with the main character having problems with their families and once they enter another world, they have to save the people who resemble their family members from whatever dark force happens to come upon them. The actors and the actresses in this film were fantastic, with my favorite character being Valentine as he was played wonderfully by Jason Barry and he really brought so much humor to the film. I also loved Stephanie Leonidas' portrayal of Helena as she is shown to be a spunky girl who doesn't seem to be afraid of the frightening world she ends up in and it really makes me get into her character.

The only problem that I had with this film was that the story tend to get a little confusing at times to the point where I don't exactly know what is quite going on with the characters. Like for instance, the movie didn't really explain about what kind of condition Helena's mother had that caused her to go to the hospital in the first place and even though it wouldn't be a major part of the film, I still would like to know what kind of disease Helena's mother had that would be so dangerous to her health.

Overall, "Mirrormask" is a fantastic and surreal film that anyone who is a huge fan of Neil Gaiman's works or surreal movies in general will definitely enjoy for many years to come!