I watched this movie twice... and I still couldn't grasp the overall plot at all, all I got from this was some evil guy with an awesome voice (who I originally thought was Tim Curry but later turned out to be the awesome Kelsey Grammer) is out to get this girl for some obsured reason... but like pretty much every other film i've seen involving a girl and an evil wizard of some sort, I can only assume its because she stopping him from ruling the world somehow...
Don't get me wrong the visuals in this movie are top notch and I loved one perticular scene where the girls perseption of reality is altered which very nearly leads her to unwilling suicide, so bonus points for that... At the end of the day this movie is like a pizza with everything on it, it sounds like a good idea, but you'll just spend a good amount of your precious time picking away at what you don't like until your left with something you can stomach. 3/5