Mosaic (film)

Mosaic
Directed by	Roy Allen Smith
Screenplay by	Scott Lobdell
Story by	Stan Lee
Starring	Anna Paquin Kirby Morrow Cam Clarke Gary Chalk Nicole Oliver
Editing by	Shawn Logue
Distributed by	Anchor Bay Entertainment
Release date(s)	January 9, 2007
Running time	72 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Mosaic is an animated superhero film about a new character created by Stan Lee. It features the voices of Anna Paquin, Kirby Morrow, and Cam Clarke. It was released under the Stan Lee Presents banner, which is a series of direct-to-DVD animated films distributed by POW Entertainment with Anchor Bay Entertainment. The story was by Stan Lee, with the script by former X-Men writer Scott Lobdell.

Mosaic was released on DVD on January 9, 2007, and had its television premiere on March 10, 2007, on Cartoon Network's Toonami.^[1]

Plot

Aspiring young actress named Maggie (Paquin) gains chameleon-like powers after she is exposed to an electrical storm and a magic rune. Her powers are from a secret and ancient race called the Chameliel, who are able to hide in plain sight due to their shape shifting abilities. Maggie and a Chamelial named Mosaic (Morrow) must battle another Chameliel named Maniken who is intent on gaining the power of his dead wife and ruling the world.^[2][3]

They go from New York, to Rome, to the North Pole, trying to stop Maniken from stealing the precious Chameleon stones and sacrificing her father, an Interpol agent, in a ceremony that will grant him the power of a god. During the battle, it is revealed the Mosaic is Maniken's son who volunteered to go after his father and stop him. They both tumbled into an icy gorge, never to rise again. Maggie then sneaks aboard an Interpol copter, overhearing her father vowing to destroy all Chameliel. Upon returning home, she vows to search for the remaining Chameleon stones as the new Mosaic.

Cast

• Anna Paquin as Maggie Nelson
• Kirby Morrow as Morrow (Mosaic)
• Kathleen Barr as Facade and Mrs. Nottenmyer
• Gary Chalk as Nathan Nelson
• Cam Clarke as Stephan
• Ron Halder as Manikin and an Italian captain
• Stan Lee as Stanley
• Scott McNeil as Mr. Bullwraith and a landlord
• Nicole Oliver as Agent Newell
• Jim Ward as a tour guide and a belligerent detective

Maggie's powers

Maggie's powers include shapeshifting, super strength, the ability to cling to surfaces allowing for scaling walls and ceilings (much like Spider-Man), seeing the DNA of other creatures (which is how she can compare humans to apes), regeneration, infrared vision, camouflage, and the ability to become invisible and mimic voices. Strangely, when Maggie becomes invisible, her outline gives off the appearance that she is completely naked, even though she is in fact wearing clothes. Why her clothes are not outlined when her body is invisible is never made clear.

References

1. ^ Toon Zone - Your Source for Toon News!
2. ^ Stan Lee Presents: Mosaic - Movie Reviews, Trailers, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes
3. ^ Movie Review - Mosaic (2007) - eFilmCritic

External links

• Mosaic
• Mosaic at the Internet Movie Database
• Mosaic at the Big Cartoon DataBase