Pan's Labryinth

Rating: 9/10 (24 May 2012)

Pan's Labryinth provides a wonderful combination of imagination and powerful story telling. The setting is perfect for the plot of the story, a young girl named Ofelia, lives in war torn environment where in her mother has had the misfortune of marrying a crazed general of Franco's army. Her escape is one of her making, through her imagination she creates a world filled with horrifying monsters and elaborate stages for her surreal escape from reality. The only reason I didn't give this movie a 10 out of 10 is because I felt there was some disconnect between some of the ideas that the various monsters Ofelia will interact with throughout.