I loved it! it was really good and very new. When i started i expected something very coraline, but it wasn't at all! I really want to see the movie now. Has anyone? Is it any good? I should hope so!

>I did have one question though...
Did her dad remember the time spent with the other girl, or did it just wash away?

> sorry if it's a stupid question, but I couldn't figure it out, and it's really been eating me.

I think the mother and father were versions of her real parents that existed in a sort of parallel world that belonged to Helena and their only link to the real ones was in her mind. I don't think either of them was aware of being in the other world. They were more like her representations of the real ones.

Just my understanding in fact.

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i don't wanna put words in anyones mouth but i think star dream may have ben refering to the time that the dad spent with bad elane in the "real world"

Right. Time-wise though all this happened during one single night... I don't know if the girl had the time to do all that in the real world... So again, it probably had the same "reality" as the rest of it and the father doesn't remember. Or never lived it in the first place.

As I remember it, when Elena comes back she's asleep on the roof, where she was right before everything started. So, she goes back to the moment she "disappeared", so she actually doesn't disappear at all.

I can't wait to be able to afford the DVD!!

Well yeah, she wakes up in the same place, but I think it was the next morning. The dream happens while her mom is being operated.

oh duh.. i never thought about it that way it had to be just overnight.. silly me..lol

Ill probably be selling my Mirrormask DVD and A Short Film about John Bolton DVD soon, or giving them away or something. Definitely not my kind of thing. Mirrormask looks more like a Playstation 2 game than a real movie.... I had to stop myself from picking up my PS2 controller all the time because it felt like those crappy lo budget movie sequences that are found between levels in PS2 games. It did not feel like the work of a real movie director.

Well Mtxx, i'm, sorry you didn't like it. If your going to give it away...

Thank you Guys for the help! I get it now, Cloverheart, you were right, about her falling asleep on the roof, and chimeer, you were right, i think it all happened while her mom was being operated on, and the look-a-like Helena wouldn't have time to do all that, and deviou_vixen, you were right about what part I was talking about. You guys are great! THank you sooooo much!

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Originally posted by mtxx:
Ill probably be selling my Mirrormask DVD and A Short Film about John Bolton DVD soon, or giving them away or something. Definitely not my kind of thing. Mirrormask looks more like a Playstation 2 game than a real movie.... I had to stop myself from picking up my PS2 controller all the time because it felt like those crappy lo budget movie sequences that are found between levels in PS2 games. It did not feel like the work of a real movie director.

Id take the john bolton dvd off your hands. I've never seen that.


I loved mirrormask.

The whole events were obviously a dream, the mom goes into surgery the night helena goes to the other world and then when she wakes up they get a call saying her mom did fine and shes okay.

I don't think it was all a dream, though. I think more likely it DID happen, only at the end Helena finds the Mirrormask and she can revert the events.
(Or at least I want to think that way, coz I rally hate the "And it was all a dream" endings, and I think I read on Neil's blog that so doe she.)

Michael, I know the film was, technically, far from perfect. But I still found the visual beautiful, the story -even though the theme has already been epxlore din Coraline- was still engaging and, basically, I liked the look of it.

I sorta view what happened with the anti-Helena as what would have happened if Helena failed and her mother died. The actions of the evil princess would make sence for a young girl who just lost her mother.

I thought it was an okay movie. Visually quite interesting, but i felt it lacked the originality of Neils other works...oh but i liked the girl who played Helena. Hope to see her in another movie.

That makes sense, that she dreampt it, and that it really did happen to her, but maybe her father just dreampt of the other Helena and her dirty deeds... Sorry if it make less than no sense, it's late, im exhausted...


Ya, I dig what your sayin, still, Mtxx if your giving it away...

i liked it because you can actually see the "neil" and "dave" parts in it. and although the main idea in the movie was too common it was one of the most interesting movies i've ever watched

absolutely adore this film

I just saw the film after getting it for christmas and really loved it. i can't wait to see stardust although information is scarce! is dave mckean involved with that aswell? i love his art, it really made mirrormask special.
but i agree that it wasn't all a dream-i think it's more a donnie darko-type thing-the destruction was happening in her world but she managed to not only stop it but make it never have happened. if that makes sense!