Sick Product of a Sick System

Load of rubbish!!

From my favorite movies..

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

To quote another reviewer, this movie is "great for families and the Art crowd".I think especially for children, or to watch it with children would leave a empathetic and great impression with them, and as a reviewer I highly recommend it to watch as a family especially with (your) children.It otherwise is a homage to the fine arts with hand made masks, drawings, paintings and animation that isn't the perfect CGI, but the kind of creative and bizarre work you would see in featured fine-art animations, which I personally have a taste for and think I was happy to see it in a feature film. However, I could understand that certain viewers might think the special effects are somewhat outdated, and in my opinion I think they are not 'trying' to be realistic, but in any case it does create a divergent opinion about them.The movie is put together well, but might have been better as a TV series to explore the story, world and characters further. Still, the movie leaves you with a unique impression and a certain inspiration for the creative minds out there.

This movie has been compared to many others for reference; Labyrinth, Alice in wonderland, the neverending story...I would even say Baron von Munchausen. Yet it differs from all of them. No telling where this movie is going or what you will see in the next 5 seconds. There is a lot of CGI in the movie which took some getting used to, but it works. There is a lot of detail in the effects, like lens flares, expressionistic, deep colors, and detailed and weird environments; almost as if the director wanted to create a living painting.That is perhaps the best way to describe this movie; a work of art. The characters are very extreme in their acting, almost like watching theater actors. The masks they wear only emphasizes this. So it good art or bad art? Opinions vary...Since this type of movie is very rare, I welcomed it.

I had heard good things about this film; mixed, but generally good. I finally realised last week why my gut instinct told me to stay away all those years when I tried to watch it on television. In 2006, a certain reviewer (you know who you are, Sam) posted an extremely negative review alongside all the glowing reports about how wonderful the film was. Sadly, I must conclude that Sam was right. The film is pretty much unwatchable, because of the appalling soundtrack and the miming, whistling clown. Neither of these things have any place in film. So offensive were they that I didn't make it past the opening sequence. Gina McKee's initial alter-ego was on the verge of a fainting fit when I decided I'd had enough and switched channels. I was ready to pass out from frustration. I can't rate this film because I can't honestly claim to have watched it, and I very much doubt I ever will. So thanks for the warning, Sam, and judging by the high proportion of users who found your review useful, I don't think we're alone.

This could of been an amazing movie, but one thing was missing. The story was all in pieces. By the end you do get the whole point of the story. But up to that point it seems like so much is left out. The story rushes in parts way too much. This is such a shame because the visual and art aspect of it was simply beautiful. The cast was also amazing. Stephanie Leonidas was great and probably my favorite character was played by Jason Barry. He was very entertaining. Back to the visual of it all. Very artistically done. Jim Hensen helped with the film and using his mind with Dave McKean and the writers, they created such a strange yet satisfying world. It was like seeing a interesting child's dream with an overcast of a creepy tone. Because the story was so rushed, I started to get really annoyed watching the film, but luckily all the visuals really kept me interested enough to want to see more. Again, that is too bad. I really wanted this film to be great. I guess the writers had an imagination for the characters, but couldn't get the story down very well on paper.