Mirrormask, Review

I watched Mirrormask again as I was not very awake when I saw it before at the film festival. It is now out on DVD.
A young woman feels trapped in her life and conflict with her mother. She helps her parents run their circus but escapes to her room and doodles in her spare time. One night her mother collapses at a performance and has to be rushed to the hospital. It looks grim. That night when she goes to sleep and dreams she is trapped in the picture world she has created. The movie is an amazing combination of live action, animations and puppetry ala-Hensen. The evil queen looks remarkable like her mother and she is mistaken for the princess who has run away before. There are evil sphinxes demanding riddles, creepy spiders, and books that fly back to the library when they feel unappreciated. Helena can look through windows and see into her room at home, but when she does she is surprised to see herself there, but is it really her?
The Mirrormask is the "key"

I will rate this movie 3/5 acorns. The story is a bit confusing to follow, but the characters and animation as very fantastic.