Tuesday, June 15, 2010 The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus - Watch it ! Posted by Jessica at 1:59 PM

To start if you don't like hippy trippy weird somewhat confusing movies.... stay away this is all of those combined. If you're in for some interesting scenery and some messing with your head.... GO FOR IT :)

Some Spoilers...... beware!

For starters this was Heath Ledger's last movie. He actually passed away before the filming was done.... because of this we have the addition of Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Ferrell. They all also play Tony (Heath Ledger's character).... trust me that is NOT the first confusing part!

I thought that they tied in the four actors together rather well as they were all "Tony" in the Imaginarium not in the real world. So given that the Imaginarium was not real so to speak it seemed more logical that someone not look the same. However, not many other characters changed while in the Imaginarium but that didn't really bother me much.

The whole plot of the movie is rather foggy and confusing given you are in the real world you go through a mirror (yes sort of like the whole Alice and the looking glass except a cheaper looking mirror) and BOOM you're in a trippy weird everyone is on drugs looking world! What is this world? Well it seems to all come around to Dr. Parnassus.

We learn that this is your not so typical good vs. evil battle. Dr. Parnassus vs. the Devil for the Dr.'s daughter.

Interesting? Yes. Strange? You betcha! Odd tango dancing between 16 yr. old daugher and the devil? Yep!

I guess my point here is..... it's good if you don't mind weird. Also... it is impossible to explain the movie so I'm not going to try more than I have. Worth the watch though if for nothing else then to see the interesting Imaginarium scenes and Heath Ledger's last bits of acting - with that Joker-esque smile.