Mirror Mirror

Director Tarsem Singh (The Cell, The Fall, Immortals) seems to aspire to make grand masterpieces with each project he takes on, and though the results fall short, they?re at least more interesting than the more predictable alternatives. In The Fall he made an art-house fairy tale that?largely due to his own screenplay?never arrived at a compelling story, focusing instead on visual splendor for its own sake. Like Spike Jonze?who lent his name as a presenter of The Fall?Tarsem got his start in music videos, where hallucinatory imagery can stand up on its own. Here, however, Tarsem has learned to offset his excessive tendencies with a little camp, arriving at a tone closer to the fantasy comedies of Terry Gilliam (Time Bandits, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus). By the time the Bollywood dance number plays over Mirror?s closing credits, bringing one last note of offbeat silliness (Tarsem, who is Indian, co-wrote the song), you might just find yourself feeling like another one of Disney?s dwarfs: Happy.

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