The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Enter a dazzling world of fantasy in The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, director Terry Gilliam's magical adventure tale starring Heath Ledger in his last film role along with Christopher Plummer, Johnny Deep, Colin Farrell and Jude Law. In exchange for extraordinary powers, Doctor Parnassus (Plummer) makes a deal with he Devil to turn over any child of his when they turn sixteen. But as his daughter Valentina's (Lily Cole) birthday approaches, a mysterious stranger (Ledger) arrives with the power to change everything. In this captivating, explosive and wonderfully imaginative race against time, Doctor Parnassus must fight to save his daughter in a never-ending landscape of surreal obstacles - and undo the mistakes of his past once and for all!
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Treading lightly in honor of Heath Ledger - movie_goer
"Just couldn't get into more than 45 minutes of the film... due to unforseen events (Heath's untimely death) the investors and Gilliam scrambled to keep the film alive and everyone pleased."
Fans of this film will probably say that it was highly imaginative and visually stimulating ... at least that's what I think Terry Gilliam is going for. I am not a fan of this film.
This seems like a rather old fashioned morality tale, a re-telling of Faust: immortality and deals with the devil usually come back to bite you in the ass. The added element is the "Imaginarium," a mirror into which people fall, and it takes them to another world where the person's imagination can run wild until s/he is forced to make a choice between the benevolent Dr. Parnassus and the devil.All Imagination - ABC99
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a visually beautiful, especially on Bluray. However, it isn't engaging at all and although beautiful is really boring. Part of the problem is, that unforunatly Heath Ledger could not play his full role, leaving an awkward tacked on plot device of him changing identities through the film. The audeince is aware that this was necessary, but it does interfere with the flow of the story.
It is a pretty picture....but not much elserambling incoherent collage - beernpeanuts
The movie stays true to the director's style, however the actual plot, storyline, character development, and progression are not easily defined. Hollywood's sellable personalities cannot save this movie as the sequencing of events seems haphazard. In essence, the movie drifts aimlessly from vignette to vignette, with occasional visual wizardry compensating for the lack of plot.
My mind drifted five minutes into the movie - this is a bad sign, as any flick needs to grab, hold, and engross its audience. The only redeeming quality is the name of the movie - it sounded grand, perhaps promising an escapist hour and a half. Alas - I was disappointed. Pity.
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Treading lightly in honor of Heath Ledger - movie_goer
"Just couldn't get into more than 45 minutes of the film... due to unforseen events (Heath's untimely death) the investors and Gilliam scrambled to keep the film alive and everyone pleased."
Fans of this film will probably say that it was highly imaginative ...All Imagination - ABC99
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a visually beautiful, especially on Bluray. However, it isn't engaging at all and although beautiful is really boring. Part of the problem is, that unforunatly Heath Ledger could not play his full role, leaving an awkward ...rambling incoherent collage - beernpeanuts
The movie stays true to the director's style, however the actual plot, storyline, character development, and progression are not easily defined. Hollywood's sellable personalities cannot save this movie as the sequencing of events seems haphazard. In essence, ...