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	Crushed by Inertia: Mirrormask
		Mirrormask has been described as a family film, and it's reliance on shiny visuals instead of any kind of human drama might appeal to the younger set more than adults, but it's a bit too creepy for kids.
		Mirrormask's trippy designs are the work of illustrator Dave McKean, and he does a great job at giving the film a unique look.
		Mirrormask is really obvious - we understand from the outset that Helena is dreaming, and that this world is composed of her drawings, even if she doesn't.
	crushedbyinertia.blogspot.com /2006/02/mirrormask.html (618 words)

	Encyclopedia: MirrorMask
		The movie was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and has been announced by Neil Gaiman to come to theaters in late 2005: The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival in the United States, and ranks amongst the top five events of its type in the world.
		MirrorMask centers on Helena, a 15 year old girl in a family of circus entertainers, who often wishes she could run off and join real life.
		After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/MirrorMask (1020 words)

	MirrorMask - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		MirrorMask is a 2005 film from the Jim Henson Company.
		The movie was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and has been announced by Neil Gaiman to come to theaters in late 2005:
		It opened on the 30th September in the U.S. The official website has the theaters that are showing MirrorMask.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/MirrorMask (388 words)

	Movie Review - MirrorMask - Hollywood Bitchslap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		If I offered the opinion that MirrorMask is an amalgamation of Alice in Wonderland, The NeverEnding Story, The Wizard of Oz, Labyrinth, M.C. Escher and Tim Burton, you'd probably be pretty intrigued...if not all that convinced of the film's unique vision and startling presentation.
		MirrorMask is a movie for children (and children-at-heart) who don't appreciate being talked down to.
		Suffice to say that MirrorMask had me wide-eyed and practically hypnotized...kinda like we all were the first time we saw The Wizard of Oz.
	www.hollywoodbitchslap.com /review.php?movie=11264&reviewer=128 (858 words)

	mirrormask
		MirrorMask is a low budget, live action/animation, fantasy film from the Jim Henson Company It was born from the minds of two of the biggest names in American and British comics books, artist/illustrator/photographer, Dave McKean, and comic book writer/best-selling novelist, Neil Gaiman.
		MirrorMask can scorch the eye with its glittery mixture of live action and animation, but the story, an allegory about denying who you are and mother/daughter relationships is chump change.
		MirrorMask's dream world façade seems to be imagination and weirdness for the sake of weirdness, and it's Freudian, pop-psychology is laughable.
	www.negromancer.com /MOVIES/mirrormask/mirrormask.html (802 words)

	Mirrormask » PopCultureShock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mirrormask, the first film from longtime collaborators Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean (Sandman, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, Violent Cases) is a visual feast.
		Mirrormask is full of menaces and unpleasant surprises, both in Helena's "real" world and her imagined one.
		In Mirrormask, there is nothing overt -- physical contact is simulated well, nobody is looking slightly askew of where their eye-line should be, animated objects carry weight and depth -- but there is something a little sterile and cold about the film despite its rich visual palette.
	www.popcultureshock.com /reviews.php?id=4585 (1232 words)

	MirrorMask - Review - Movies - New York Times
		Directed by the acclaimed graphic artists and longtime collaborators Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman, "MirrorMask" hurtles its 15-year-old British protagonist, Helena Campbell (Stephanie Leonidas), through a murky phantasmagoria during an extended dream the night after her mother, Joanne (Gina McKee), collapses and is rushed to the hospital.
		During her journey, she is accompanied by a strange, masked companion and juggler, Valentine (Jason Barry), as they search for a mirrormask, an object that holds the key to Helena's adolescent identity and can restore the balance of power between the Dark Lands and the City of Light, whose queen (like Helena's mother) lies ailing.
		If "MirrorMask" is a marvel of visual ingenuity, its monochromatic panoramas are too busy and flat to yield an illusion of depth or to convey a feeling of characters moving in space.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/09/30/movies/30mask.html?ex=1285732800&en=209d4328312f6bc6&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (720 words)

	MirrorMask Film Competition
		MIRRORMASK tells the story of Helena (Leonidas), a fifteen-year-old girl working for her family circus, 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.
		On her quest to return home, Helena searches for the Mirrormask, an object of enormous power, which is her only hope of escaping the Dark Lands.
	www.voidspace.org.uk /competition.shtml (769 words)

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		And then, on the night of her mother's surgery, things take a turn for the decidedly strange when Helena seemingly awakens from sleep to find herself in another world, alone, and drawn into a conflict not of her own conscious making.
		Using a variety of media, McKean has rendered the Dark Lands in exquisite detail, and, with help from the folks at Henson, populated it with a bizarre mix of mask-wearing humans and fantastical critters (the winged, human-faced cats with a taste for books are delightfully creepy).
		In a nutshell: the balance between the worlds of light and dark has been disrupted by someone eager to escape both lands, and the queen of light lays in a deathlike sleep while darkness overtakes her lands.
	www.greenmanreview.com /film/film_mirrormask.html (600 words)

	MirrorMask (2005): Reviews
		MirrorMask is the story of Helena, a fifteen-year-old girl working for her family circus, who wishes -- quite ironically -- that she could run away from the circus and join real life.
		Crafted by hand and computer, Mirrormask is as breathtakingly beautiful to behold as it is tedious to slog through.
		Mirrormask has more in common with Fringe Theatre than with typical motion picture storytelling, and most critics seem incapable of grasping this concept.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/mirrormask (1012 words)

	moviefans.de !!! MirrorMask...
		"MirrorMask" (2005) ist ein visuell äusserst beeindruckendes Märchen...
		Aimed more at a slightly younger audience than myself (think Dark Crystal), Mirrormask tells the story of 15-year-old Helena (newcomer Stephanie Leonidas), whose family are circus performers until her mother (Gina McKee) is stricken with cancer and near death.
		Helena takes on the quest to find the Mirrormask which will restore balance to this world, awaken the white queen, and allow her to go home.
	www.moviefans.de /a-z/m/mirrormask/index.html (1322 words)

	MirrorMask - Rotten Tomatoes
		Reminiscent of ALICE IN WONDERLAND and LABYRINTH, MIRRORMASK is a fantasy tale of an intelligent young girl on a journey through a magical world.
		MirrorMask is a movie that would work better as a graphic novel.
		Mirrormask is as breathtakingly beautiful to behold as it is tedious to slog through.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/mirrormask (961 words)

	Amazon.com: Mirrormask: DVD: Jason Barry,Dora Bryan,Rob Brydon,Stephen Fry,Andy Hamilton,Stephanie Leonidas,Robert ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		As with the latter film, MirrorMask focuses on a young woman unhappy with her daily existence; here, the artistically inclined Helena (Stephanie Leonides), is at odds with her circus performer parents.
		MIRRORMASK is the story of Helena, who works for the family circus, and wishes--quite ironically--that she could run away and join real life.
		Helena searches for the Mirrormask, an object of enormous power that is her only hope of escaping the Dark Lands, waking the Queen of Light and returning home.
	www.amazon.com /Mirrormask-Jason-Barry/dp/B000BT97AO (2039 words)

	Now Playing Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mirrormask is best described as a dark fantasy, a surrealist spectacle of the bizarre laced with elements of The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The Chronicles of Narnia and even Cirque de Soleil.
		On her quest to return home and reunite with her parents, Helena encounters a strange companion, Valentine (Jason Barry), a doppelganger resistant to change and the titular, enormously powerful mask, which is the key to her escape.
		Mirrormask has the advantage of some evocative imagery (particularly memorable is a spindly, big-eyed spider), but it evinces a lonely, desolate feel that’s generally a buzzkill for a children’s adventure movie of this sort.
	www.nowplayingmag.com /content/view/2314/47 (472 words)

	Zap2it.com - Movie review - MirrorMask
		It's no coincidence that "MirrorMask" is produced by the Jim Henson Company and that it calls to mind the youth-oriented fantasy of "The Dark Crystal" and "Labyrinth." What Henson and his cohorts did with puppets and animatronics, McKean (making his feature directing debut) and Gaiman aim to do with computers.
		Stephanie Leonidas -- as essential to "MirrorMask" as future Oscar winner Jennifer Connelly was to "Labyrinth" -- plays Helena, a 15-year-old girl whose family operates a circus.
		Even if it feels frustratingly unformed in places, "MirrorMask" lingers in the mind in a way that suggests that future viewings could uncover different marvels in the background and new layers to the complicated soundscape that accompanies Helena's voyage.
	movies.zap2it.com /movies/movies/reviews/text/0,1259,---26880,00.html (708 words)

	UGO.com Film/TV - MirrorMask
		MirrorMask centers on Helena (the beautiful Stephanie Leonidas), a young girl in a family of circus entertainers, who often wishes she could run off and join real life.
		MirrorMask comes from the minds of Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman, two longtime collaborators on several comics, including The Sandman, Signal to Noise and Mr.
		Enter the world of MirrorMask as we interview Miss Leonidas and Mr.
	www.ugo.com /channels/filmtv/features/mirrormask (122 words)

	MirrorMask - ComingSoon.net
		MirrorMask is the compelling story of a young girl's journey through a dark, fantastic world.
		MirrorMask is a wonderfully demented fairy tale filled with fanged cats out of Escher sketches and prickly spiral staircases to nowhere, but at its core is simply a girl wishing her sick mother would get better.
		MirrorMask is a wonderful new chapter in their long partnership.
	www.comingsoon.net /news/reviewsnews.php?id=11349 (600 words)

	Chicago movie theaters, movie reviews, movie photos, movie news
		Working for her family's circus, 15-year-old Helena (Stephanie Leonidas) is a pretty typical teen: mad at her ringleader parents and threatening to run off and join the, umm, real world.
		Terribly distressed on the eve of her mother's surgery, Helena goes down the rabbit hole into the Dark Lands, a fantastical otherworld filled with monkeybirds and sphinxes.
		"MirrorMask" is way too dark for kids, way too simplistic for adults and I'd bet even his fanboys won't care too much for Helena's journey or her dark-side makeover set to "Close to You" (though they might not admit it).
	metromix.chicagotribune.com /movies/mmx-050930-movies-review-mirrormask,0,4595985.story?coll=mmx-movies_top_heds (530 words)

	Eclectic Gamer: 100 Days of Snark - Day 52: MirrorMask (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		MirrorMask is the story of a teenage girl's dream quest to save the life of her mother.
		MirrorMask is the kind of film that makes me believe in a Death: The High Cost of Living or a Discworld movie.
		MirrorMask is a fine credit to his name, but it just couldn't capture me the way it was meant to do.
	www.eclecticgamer.com /2006/10/100_days_of_snark_day_52_mirro.php (1147 words)

	Amazon.com: MirrorMask: The Illustrated Film Script of the Motion Picture from the Jim Henson Company: Books: Neil ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Half of "Mirrormask"'s appeal is the eerie presentation, along with an archetypical heroine and opposing light/dark kingdoms.
		"Mirrormask" seems to be what one would expect from a Gaiman creation: Weird, strange, and surreal, yet also funny and touching.
		As a painter, short stories writer, and graphic novella's author i may say that the Mirrormask is a great ''drive trough'' the world of magic, fantasy, and imagination of today's acclaimed writer Neil Gaiman, and my favorite painter, photographer, and one of a kind artist Dave McKean.
	www.amazon.com /MirrorMask-Illustrated-Script-Picture-Company/dp/0060798750 (1985 words)

	MIRRORMASK (Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean) MOVIE INFO - TheMovieBox.Net
		MirrorMask centers on Helena, a 15 year old girl in a family of circus entertainers, who often wishes she could run off and join real life.
		After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault.
		But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she's in a dream, or something far more sinister.
	www.themoviebox.net /movies/2004/IJKLM/MirrorMask/main-page.html (158 words)

	MirrorMask DVD Review - Digital Retribution
		MirrorMask presents the viewer with the story of Helena, a teenager brought up in a circus family, living that romanticised childhood fantasy, only Helena can't stand it, and wants to run away to join the 'real world'.
		Initially I was dubious of the heavy amounts of CGI used to bring the fantasy elements to life, but after seeing the film in its entirety, the whole world set up is completely believable.
		Adults on the other hand may have drastically differing opinions on the piece, but I must stress that those expecting a return to the good old days of Jim Henson are going to be very disappointed.
	www.digital-retribution.com /reviews/dvd/0380.php (1154 words)

	MirrorMask
		Taking place primarily in a digitally-created environment (à la Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow), it looks, unfortunately, a lot like it was shot on last-generation digital video--even the non-fantasy portions of MirrorMask deliver the kind of grimy, ugly picture that Robert Rodriguez makes with his children.
		With the MirrorMask of the title a talisman that represents the beginning and the end of the tale's psychological complexity (look inside yourself, you see others as reflections of yourself, you mask yourself in misdirections, and so on), its quest is suddenly light and its success a strange, foregone conclusion.
		If the picture is a parable for a young girl coming of age (the "darkness" that is the film's villain a lush, hormonal tide), its resolution suggests that maturity is the enemy--that the ultimate goal of growing up is failing to do so.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/mirrormask.htm (483 words)

	Comic Book Resources - CBR News - The Comic Reel
		There's a totally different side to that circus fantasy that's examined in the upcoming film "MirrorMask," which centers on a 15-year-old girl named Helena who's a member of a family of circus entertainers and wishes she could run off and join real life.
		Polis said the beginnings of "MirrorMask" date back to 1999 when the Henson Company was looking at figures on DVD sales for their library.
		"MirrorMask" is a film with a great deal of computer generated imagery and was filmed primarily using blue screen, a process which puts an actor in front of a blue field where effects can be added later.
	www.comicbookresources.com /news/newsitem.cgi?id=4036 (2116 words)

	The Alchemy of MirrorMask: by Dave McKean
		MirrorMask is the story of Helena, a fifteen-year-old girl who works for her family's circus.
		She juggles, sells popcorn, and longs to run away and join the "real world." Helena also dreams, and one day she wakes up to find herself in a strange new world populated by mysterious creatures…a dream world where she embarks on an amazing journey.
		Each chapter in The Alchemy of MirrorMask begins with an introduction by McKean and Gaiman and then guides readers through the different types of visuals used to create the film, including sketches, paintings, storyboards, 3-d models, photographs, texture maps, frame blow-ups, and more.
	www.harpercollins.com /book/index.aspx?isbn=9780060823795 (497 words)

	The MirrorMask Film
		MIRRORMASK is a groundbreaking effort from director Dave McKean with a screenplay by Neil Gaiman.
		And so, for just over a year, seventeen animators (many of them recent Computer Animation graduates from Bournemouth University in England) worked at PC stations in a single quiet room in Islington as McKean personally supervised every frame of the film, thus ensuring that his and Gaiman’s original artistic tone would be completely realized.
		MIRRORMASK is a groundbreaking effort to take the stunning authorship and artistry of Gaiman and McKean off the pages of the graphic novel for the first time and put that vision on the screen.
	www.voidspace.org.uk /fiction/mirrormask.shtml (2977 words)

	MirrorMask Movie Review - MirrorMask Movie Trailer - The Boston Globe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The director of "Mirrormask" is Dave McKean, a comics artist and visual concept guru on the last "Harry Potter" movie, and the Shrieking Shack sequences of "Prisoner of Azkaban" hint at what McKean's after here.
		"Mirrormask" is often astonishing to look at -- sometimes astonishingly ugly, too -- but the cumulative inventiveness turns oppressive and finally tedious.
		The visual gimcrackery of "Mirrormask" will rightly awe teenagers and graphic designers alike, but as ingeniously cluttered as this film is, it's empty in reality.
	www.boston.com /movies/display?display=movie&id=8367 (532 words)

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