Thursday 5 April 2012

Mirror Mirror

Her Indoors and I hit the town (the Westfield shopping centre, Stratford, actually) this evening for one of our occasional nights out. We didn't know anything about any of the films being shown at the cinema so I decided on Mirror Mirror, which is a brilliant film, it's a bit like Time Bandits (obviously) but not quite as funny.

In fact, the whole film is pushes the boundaries of "But not quite as...", it manages to fail on more levels than you'd think possible - like the two-and-a-half minutes of fake Bollywood tacked on during the closing credits - but perhaps that is the genius of it: it's quite captivating throughout, but without you giving a toss what's going to happen next.

I'd recommend it luke warmly to all and sundry.

5 comments:

Pavlov's Cat said...

it's quite captivating throughout, but without you giving a toss what's going to happen next.

That'll be Tarsem Singh, it's all about the visuals, his film 'The Fall' is one of the most visually beautiful films I've seen, yet the story 'meh'

Sean said...

I sat through the Help yesterday, which as I saw the whole thing from beginning to end must be pretty good.

Sort of, Desperate Housewives crossed with Mad Men and Mississippi Burning. Lots of smoking so I a sure you would love it. 8/10

DBC Reed said...

A tale of two cities: Westfield Centre is the five-year-old hole in the ground in Bradford where they've been pissing around for lack of any penalty like a swingeing LVT.

Mark Wadsworth said...

PC, the story is not 'meh', the story is quite important, it's just that it's a "modern take on a fairy tale" so you're sitting there thinking "Well, maybe the handsome prince will turn out to be gay. Or maybe he's straight. Definitely one or the other. But I don't really mind either way."

S, "Help" the Beatles film? It's a classic!

DBC, aaargh! That's awful. The crater shows up on Google Maps, definitely a job for LVT man.

James Higham said...

Come on, we need a much longer review than that, Mark. ;-)