Winding
back the clocks, hickory dickory dock style.
From Agatha Christie’s murder mystery spoofs and ghostly
atmospheres, to the haunted mansion feeling of spooks and spooky stories, in
this Clocks movie -with pirate actor Jack Black.
The story takes us from clue to
clue and from ‘sticker to sticker’ -through attached and flowing edited scenes.
We have ghostly corridors, Halloween chimneys, and Harry Potter like moving
portraits -in this epic big screen production of witchcraft and graveyards.
The mission is to find the skeleton
book and key in order to stop the clocks.
Tick Tock…
One hidden clock and one evil ghost and his female disguised
counterpart are trying to take over the world of magic. Will they regain their
youth and life back and stay young forever, bringing darkness to the rest of
the world? Or will the apprentice boy decipher the clues in the book and defeat
the ghost in the graveyard?
With the help Jack Black as Merlin, and his sorceress who
regains her powers through sheer will, the team manages to find magic in the
mansion’s portals and uncover the mystery in order to find the clocks and stop
the old man’s ghost from taking over the world. Watch out for the clocks scenes
at the finale!!!
Merlin Black, his boy apprentice, and the good sorceress, battle
against the ‘old ghost’ and his ‘evil witch’ in disguise.
The magic symbols and enchanted objects
are ‘key’ to unraveling the mystery, and to finding the blood bone key to the
book of ‘skeletons’ (so to speak) – in order to use its powers to defeat the
evil witch and the old ghostly ghost.
The symbols range from book to book and the potions are
poisonous!
From metaphor to metaphor and from portal to portal, we
follow the heroes into the attic of doom. Here we find the dolls and devils who
move from room to bedroom.
The garden scene is as moving as
the graveyard one in its spooky atmosphere of Halloween.
The moss lion is like a green octopus -with its ‘tentacles’
reaching high and flying low.
From signals and palms, to hands in graves and yards, and to
bedrooms and books at night, we are haunted by the mansion and its surprises -as
well as by the denouement of the story line.
Watch out for the swirling heads.
Reminiscent of the Witches of the
East and West, as well as of the Adam’s Family and of Rowling’s deeds on pages,
this movie jumps from fabulous page scene to script finale.
The linear story is above.
The clues are in the inanimate books, keys, and in the moving
portraits and portals.
The cookie is of extreme importance in stringing the whole
thing together.
The animation of the lion, ghostly hand, etc, is fabulously
fun and entertaining.
The symbols are intriguing, both on the pages and off the
pages!
The visual effects are a whirlwind of turning heads on
screen and off!!!
