Mirror Mirror (Tarsem Singh)

[eternity]

MIRROR MIRROR

Director: Tarsem Singh

imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1667353/)

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[eternity]

A sporadically intoxicating movie; it's silly and ridiculous in the best of ways and is really enjoyable, but then there are stretches of time in the middle of the movie that drag; filling the void between inspired moments of sickeningly kiddie hijinks. It's funny and quotable, which I was not expecting at all. All that said, it doesn't feel like it was made in the 21st century. It looks like a glorified stage production, and has the beat of a 1990s kids movie; it played like something I would have watched on VHS in my childhood.

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[Mal]

Crap. Collins and Hammer are fine - but has Hollywood run out of dwarf actors? Why is Nathan Lane so broke these days? Julia Roberts also feels out of place and boring. meh. My little kid self would not even like this. Just about the only good thing about it is the costume design by the late Eiko Ishioka.

[B-side]

Mirror Mirror is a mixed bag, but a good mixed bag. Like Paul WS Anderson's The Three Musketeers from last year, Mirror Mirror shifts from macrocosmic artificial structures to microcosmic environments. Mirror Mirror's shifts are seamless, though, and more beautifully incorporated in the storybook narrative. Both are self-aware -- Mirror Mirror much more so -- and both contain some striking, ornate imagery, though Singh's vision is more ornate, cartoonish and deliberately artificial, as it generally is (see: last year's Immortals). Both Anderson and Singh's films unabashedly wear their old fashioned morality and truisms on their sleeve, and Mirror Mirror works as a reaction to a reaction; that is, responding to the recent trend of revisioning happy-go-lucky tales and darkening them to appeal to a more mature and cynical audience. Singh's film is heavy on the politics, which surprised me. It can scarcely hide its topicality, cribbing the current US economic recession fueled by the accumulation of wealth to the upper class at the expense of the lower class. The cynicism of morbidly fashioned fairy tales has evaporated the unbridled joy and dancing of the townspeople, and Singh's vision of optimism and political uprising seeks to restore that happiness.


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[EyesWideOpen]

This movie is still playing in like every single theater near me. It's pretty bizarre.

[EyesWideOpen]

I'm not a Tarsem fan but this was better then expected. The cast was fantastic and while the story was goofy at times I was still entertained throughout. I still prefer Snow White and the Huntsmen but I liked Collins better as Snow and the dwarves were better in this movie.

[Skitch]

Wow, I really enjoyed this! My expectations were pretty low, but this was pretty darn funny. It was more of a comedy than I expected, and I loved that ir was constantly jabbing at itself and fairy tales in general.

I encourage you guys to give it a shot.

[Sven]

Skitch is right. Give it a shot. For a silly kids film, it is abnormally resonant. Lots of cool visuals and tongue nicely in cheek. Nathan Lane is raped by a grasshopper.