Helena is a teenager who spends his life seemingly serene among the tents of the circus, in the midst of clowns, lion tamers, and other secondary characters very weird. What more would, however, is to lead a normal life, which handled the circus life does not allow. To aggravate matters, her mother became seriously ill shortly after she fought with her ...
The girl lives in despair until, one night, leaving the house he discovers a strange black substance which seems to destroy everything he touches. Try to escape, ending in a parallel world made up of the characters in his drawings. Find that that world is falling apart because the Queen of Light is seriously ill, and only the MirrorMask, Mirror Mask, can save her.
Between "The Wizard of Oz," "Labyrinth" and "The Neverending Story," is moving this film, directed by Dave McKean and written by Neil Gaiman.
Two names in the world of comics have their own very considerable importance. Together they have created works such as "Violent Cases" "Mr Punch" and "Coraline," to fully develop their careers in other directions, including new for this very special film fantasy.
McKean, in the role of director and set designer, gives the film its unique visual style that allowed him to get his place in the world worthy of illustration graphics. The result is alienating, but satisfactory. Although the special effects are not always up to the task (which is intentional or not?) Recreated the world from this crazy zuzzurellone has its own reason. The pace given to each scene has an interesting structure, though not miraculous, but the vision continues quietly to the end.
Not a masterpiece, but a pleasant film that you watch, fun and entertainment without being pretentious but to tell for the sake of it - as he said Chaucher the end of his "Canterbury Tales".
Yet a film that many (at least, many of the people I got to hear me) have challenged. All because of a particular name (Neil) and an equally special name (Gaiman) present in credits for this project. A bad character to which we must work extremely masterpieces such as those in couples with McKean already mentioned above. Together with the monumental saga of "Sandman", the review of Marvel characters for "1602" or "The Eternal", the miniseries "Angela" for the Spawn of Image comics, and other masterpieces of the comic. Not to mention novels as good as "American Gods," "Anansi Boys" and "Stardust." From a name like his, the expectations were not very high.
why "MirrorMask" has disappointed so many people, who perhaps expected a cinematic reinvention of an author so special. I do not feel like instead of condemning it. It is true that this story does not say anything novo, that looks like a cut and paste of several other existing texture ... but after twenty years of career, it is logical that the ideas begin to dry up.
If you really want to talk about a flop, we must mention the "Beowulf," Zemeckis has guiltily screenplay with Roger Avary, but this is the first misstep of his career, and can even be there. Unlike many other nerdini, I have made a tragedy.
We then divide the issue from two perspectives: from a fan and an objective. By Gaiman fanboy say it is the lesser, but still manages to give a nice story, although very far from its glories. Objectively it is a film that has its own charm, more than the visual side of the story, but my favorite by far than most fantasy films sweetened and sickly in recent years.
to look at and take for what it is.
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