The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Truly Dreadful Film

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

I re-watched The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus lately on my notebook (better watch on a wide big one - the bigger the better) and was again fascinated by this little movie full of poetry, fine imagination and visuals and a great cast (Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, Andrew Garfield and Heath Ledger - his last movie as far as I know).Well, this movie is maybe not made for the mainstream taste - if someone complains that this movie makes no sense he should just shut down logic and embrace the experience.Anyway, imo this one belongs to Terry Gilliam's finest moments like The Twelve Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , Brazil: a fairy tale told in fantastic pictures.

Terry Gilliam films almost always feel a bit slapdash and chaotic, it's just the guy's calling card to have a modicum of organized mayhem filling the fringes of whatever project he delivers. With The Imaginarum Of Dr. Parnassus, that is probably the case more so than any other film he's made, and despite letting the clutter run away with itself a bit too much, it's still a dazzling piece. Of course, your movie will always have a disjointed undercurrent when your lead actor passes away halfway through production, but that's just the way it goes, and Gilliam finds a fascinating solution to that issue here. Imaginarium is in many ways a companion piece, in spirit, to The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen, a film he made decades earlier, both containing a sort of baroque, Da Vinci-esque splendour and sense of fantastical wonder. Christopher Plummer hides behind a gigantic Dumbledore beard as Parnassus, a magician extraordinaire who travels the land with his daughter (Lily Cole, that bodacious Botticelli bimbo) and circus troupe, including Verne 'Mini Me' Troyer. Years earlier he made a pact with the devil (Tom Waits, an inspired choice) using his daughter as collateral, and now Old Nick has come to reap the debt, causing quite the situation. The story is a hot mess of phantasmagoria and kaleidoscope surrealism thanks to the Imaginarium itself, a multi layered dimension-in-a-box that accompanies them on their travels. Things get complicated when they rescue dying lad Tony (Heath Ledger) who somehow ties into the tale as well. Now, this was Ledger's very last film, its future left uncertain after his passing, but help arrived in the form of Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell, swooping in to play doppelgänger versions of Tony as he bounced from one plane of the imaginarium to another with Cole in tow, always one step ahead of Waits, who is a rockin' choice to play the devil, smarming and charming in equal doses. It's kind of a huge melting pot of images and ideas hurled into creation, but it's a lovable one, the fun you'll have watching it reasonably eclipses lapses in logic, plotting and pacing.

a film who seems be the question of Sphinx. because it is not only a magnificent show. or a story with deep roots in myths and fairy tales. it is a dialog with the viewer. CGI is only a tool, not very significant in that case because the purpose is the self definition of public. the manner to assume as another side of reality for beautiful images and labyrinth - story. a film who could be just charming. but it is one of rare challenges who defines options and ideas and manner to assume the life. and each of elements who build it are parts of a personal answer. imagination is the basic ingredient. but, in many moments, it is only a mask. not very comfortable but useful for rediscover the flavor of old Oriental small stories about importance of small details who defines the heart of each existence and make it real valuable.

Very Much like His Peers Tim Burton and Wes Anderson, Terry Gilliam is an Artist's Artist. He is that First and Foremost and the Imagination Gilliam puts on the Screen in the Form of Surreal Imagery is Always Unique and Interesting. This One is No Different. Inside the Mind of Dr. Parnassus is where Gilliam Shines with a Landscape of the Unreal and the Viewer is Certainly Taken to a Place that Never Existed Before. That is what the Art of the Best Cinema does Best.But this is a Tedious Pleasure and is also Quite Unpleasant at Times. Terry Gilliam is a Filthy Fellow. Not Profane, just Dirty, in that the People, Places, Props, Sets, and Costumes Outside the Mind of Parannus are in Need of some Serious Scrubbing. Watching it makes You want to take a Shower. Everything is Ragged and Unhealthy Looking.The Film is a Jumble of Juxtapositions and Clutter Standing In for Complexity. By the End of the Movie the Excessive Exhilaration is Exhausting. As Stunning as it may be to Look At, there is a Feeling that You Want it All to be Over With. When it is, there Might be a Sense of Disappointment along with Relief because it Doesn't Add Up to Much.The All Star Cast, with Stand-Ins for the Early Departed Heath Ledger by His Friends as Homage, Manage to Bring the Thing Home. That Works as a Nice Eulogy but the Film doesn't Quite Work as a Whole.