Movie magic

Sometimes a movie comes along that makes everything else a little more lack luster, that much less imaginative ...

Mirror Mask has a decent story, decent acting, but the movie's visuals hmmm decent doesn't even begin to describe it. Miyazaki and Lewis Carroll have between them taken the girl lost in a make believe world to surreal heights ... in Spirited Away and Alice in Wonderland respectively. But to have Gaiman and Dave Mc Kean pull off the same feat is almost unbelievable. Yes, this movie is in the same league in terms of both the stunning visual experience of Miyazaki's spirited away, and in the make it all make sense lunacy of the make believe world of shadows and light that define the two kingdoms in the world our heroine finds herself in ..

I'm sure there are other reviewers waxing ecstastic or panning the movie out there on the wild wild web. Allow me to not join the crowd. All I want to say is whenever Gaiman and Kean decide to make a movie together again, I definitely won't be waiting for Tuesday night specials. No sirree give me the lineup for the first show, first day and I'll be there waiting knowing expectations will be met nay blown away :)