SYNOPSIS
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a fantastical morality tale, set in the present-day. It tells the story of Dr. Parnassus and his extraordinary “imaginarium,” a traveling show where members of the audience get an irresistible opportunity to choose between light and joy or darkness and gloom.

Blessed with the extraordinary gift of guiding the imaginations of others, Doctor Parnassus is cursed with a dark secret. An inveterate gambler, thousands of years ago he made a bet with the devil, Mr. Nick, in which he won immortality. Centuries later, on meeting his one true love, Dr. Parnassus made another deal with the devil, trading his immortality for youth, on condition that when his daughter reached her 16th birthday, she would become the property of Mr. Nick.

Valentina is now rapidly approaching this “coming of age” milestone and Dr. Parnassus is desperate to protect her from her impending fate. Mr. Nick arrives to collect but, always keen to make a bet, renegotiates the wager. Now the winner of Valentina will be determined by whoever seduces the first five souls. Enlisting a series of wild, comical and compelling characters in his journey, Dr. Parnassus promises his daughter’s hand in marriage to the man the helps him win.

In this captivating, explosive and wonderfully imaginative race against time, Dr. Parnassus must fight to save his daughter in a never-ending landscape of surreal obstacles – and undo the mistakes of his past one and for all! Source: sonyclassics.com.

REVIEW
If memory serves, I started hearing about this movie shortly after Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium was released. They are very similar in that they both fall into the fantastic genre.

The visual in this movie were awesome, but the story left me wondering at the actual plot aim. The synopsis states that this is a tale of morality, which came through, but I felt the foundation for the plot was tenuous at best. The introduction of Tony (Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell) only seemed to complicate the plot for me. I will admit that with the death of Ledger during production, the introduction of Depp, Law and Farrell served well as alternative personalities of the same character and the transition was almost seamless. I was liking Anton (Andrew Garfield) the most and Verne Troyer was outstandingly comical.

Loved it for its creative aspect, but not to keen on the plot.