The 10th Kingdom

So I was wallowing in boredom and sadness at the lack of any good fantasy films of any kind that I haven't already watched to death... And then I remembered that I have The 10th Kingdom! It's easy to spoil, because it's so huge (it's a mini-series), so I'll just say that it's a story of a father and daughter who accidentally get pulled into a crazy world where fairy tales are real. Makes it sound kind of dumb, I realize, but it's like a parallel world that you can cross over to. It's been around 200 years since the events of the fairy tales that we know, so what we know is considered real history in that world. So you've got funky magic and riddles and poisoned apples and the whole nine yards! The coolest part is what they cooked up for the Magic Mirrors. (You know, the ones Snow White's stepmother used to see who the fairest one of all was?) One of the mirrors allows for passage between their world and ours... Really cool. Really loooong, too.

I'd seen it before, but I'd completely forgotten about it... And thusly completely forgotten about this little clip that I just had to get posted on YouTube. Bit of a rough cut, but I didn't want to actually recompress the entire audio and video, so I just used the original key-frames, so there's a few ghost images... But this is the spirit of the entire show! Incredibly funny and well-thought:

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