Seemed so promising yet...

Rating: 5/10 (28 December 2007)

Listen, just because it's foreign doesn't make it good. There were good things about this movie however. The idea of a dark fairytale isn't unique, but it was nice to see somebody other than Tim Burton trying their hand at the genre. (Is it really a genre?(and I have nothing against Tim Burton, but I can only watch so many monochrome movies shot in Technicolor.)) Beautiful CG and and affects. Pan himself reminded me of something out of Celtic mythology, covered in roots and pagan symbols. The child-eating monster is one of the few movie creatures to actually scare me in a long time. The direction was also top notch. But directing can only go so far when the script is awful, the story is trite and the acting wooden. The bad guy was just a puppet. By the end of the movie he was almost like a character out of a bad comic book. The only thing missing was he never kicked a puppy. (Not that I would condone such a thing.)Throw in some Spanish rebels to make it "historical", a happy ending that will put your pancreas into shock and you're left with a movie that was mediocre at best.