The MirrorMask

I haven't watched this movie for ages! I miss this movie. I love it especially when I watching with my siblings. It's just so nice of how they joke around and irritate each other while they watch the movie. I feel like watching it over and over again, well, if it's possible, watch it with my siblings.

It's about a girl called Helena (Stephanie Leonidas) who works with her parents (Gina McKee and Rob Brydon) at their family circus, but desires to "run away and join real life". At the next performance after Helena and her mother have a heated argument, Helena's mother collapses and is taken to the hospital. Ten days later, the doctors determine that Helena's mother requires an operation, and Helena can only blame herself for the situation. That night, she wakes up in a dream-like state and encounters three performers outside her apartment building. As they try to perform, two of them are consumed by a shadow, and the third, named Valentine (Jason Barry), helps to quickly direct Helena to safety. She learns they are in the City of Light which is slowly being consumed by shadows, causing its widely-varied citizens to flee. Helena is mistaken for the Princess. She and Valentine are taken to the Prime Minister (Brydon), who explains that the Princess from the Land of Shadow stole a charm from the City of Light, leaving their White Queen (McKee) in a state of unnatural sleep and the City vulnerable to the Shadows. Helena offers to help recover the charm.

As Helena and Valentine seek out clues, they are unaware they are being watched by the Queen of Shadows (McKee), mistakenly believing Helena to be the Princess of the Land of Shadows. Helena discovers that by looking through the windows of the buildings, she can see into her apartment room through the windows on drawings she created on one wall of her room, and discovers that a doppelganger of herself is behaving radically different from her and that the doppelganger is aware of her presence in the drawings. Helena and Valentine learn the stolen charm is called the "MirrorMask", and seek it out in a white building filled with hundreds of locks. However, Valentine betrays Helena and gives her to the Queen of Shadows. Helena is hypnotized into thinking she is the Princess, but Valentine has a change of heart and returns to help Helena break the hypnosis and recover her memories. The two search the Princess' room, and Helena discovers the MirrorMask hidden in the Princess' mirror; the two flee the Queen of Shadows' castle with the charm.

Helena realizes that the doppelganger in the real world is the Princess, and that she has started to destroy the drawings on Helena's wall to prevent her from using the MirrorMask. With all the windows to the real world destroyed, the Princess goes to the apartment roof to toss the drawings away, but discovers that Helena had previously drawn a window on the roof's door. Helena uses that window to invoke the power of the MirrorMask to return herself to the real world and banish the Princess back to her own realm. Helena finds herself safely on her apartment's roof, with her father telling her that her mother's operation was a success. Helena apologizes to both her parents for her behavior. Some time later, as she is happily working at the circus, she encounters a young man who appears very similar to Valentine. It's a Must-Watch!!!