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Mary-Margaret Dennis is an underappreciated young girl with a brilliant physicist for a mother and a Cloudcuckoolander botanist for a father. To make matters worse, her two best friends don't quite appear to exist. Things start to change when she inherits an old hand-crafted mirror from her great-grandmother, and she soon notes that the reflection doesn't match up with the rest of her room.

Soon afterwards, she learns that the mirror actually functions as a gateway to a parallel world, one where Mirror Minders keep mirrors like hers safe from the evil Drakes, a society of giant tea-drinking ducks who are led by a fowl fiend named Dragora. And as for the tea they drink, it's generally made of Mirror Minders. When Mary-Margaret asks to be taken to the Mirror World's Queen Hyssop, Dragora and her two henchducks Dabble and Swanson pull out all stops to have her over for some tea...

Meanwhile, Mary-Margaret's mother and her assistant Dr Laszlo Tuttle just so happens to be working on an invention, the Doppelgänger, that is capable of piercing the fabric of Space-Time.

The movie, got a sequel, Magic in the Mirror: Fowl Play. In this movie, a vengeful Dr Tuttle teams up with a similarly vengeful Dragora to kidnap Mary Margaret and her mother.


These movies contain examples of:

  • Arbitrary Skepticism: When Melilot talks about how mirrors are doorways, Mary says he sounds crazy. Melilot points out that she just passed through a mirror.
  • Artistic License – Physics:
    • The Doppelgänger is somehow perfectly safe, despite using a beam of antimatter. The most it'll do is give you third-degree burns and blow a hole in the wall of your house. Also, if used on a mirror, it'll simply open the portal and not destroy the mirror.
    • For that matter, Sylvia then studies "Advanced Reflective Surfaces". Which is apparently a proper vocation.
  • Child Hater: Dr. Tuttle says that he always hated children, even when he was a baby.
  • Dean Bitterman: Principal Mallard is a bitter woman who's hated by the teachers and students.
  • Felony Misdemeanor: Breaking a mirror equals 5000 years of bad luck. The Mirror World Mirrors are that valuable.
  • Friendless Background: Mary's mother didn't have any friends as a child.
  • Henpecked Husband: When asked what her father does, Mary says, "Whatever my mother tells him to."
  • Magic Mirror: The magic mirrors allow people to travel to different worlds.
  • Not-So-Imaginary Friend: Mary has two imaginary friends named Bella and Donna. They're actually pixies from the other world.
  • Pluralses: Everyone calls Mary a people. She eventually says that people is plural and that she's a person. When Queen Hyssop calls Mary a sapling, she says, "I'm not a sapling! I'm a people!"
  • Pre Ass Kicking One Liner:
    Sylvia, standing behind a primed and ready Doppelgänger: Mary-Margaret, DUCK!
    Queen Dragora: Duck?
    Sylvia: Roast duck.
  • Threat Backfire: Swanson doesn't initially get that Dragora's threatened to dip him in tea.
  • To Serve Man: The Drakes really really like their tea.

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