Your definitely in for a treat

Rating: 10/10 (12 January 2007)

I did expect more of the film to be in a fantasy universe (geuss its about 50/50), but it just blew me away, the mix of realism and fantasy was blended perfectly, the two sides of the storie are so good separately that its almost scary and combined even better. This is a defenent top 10 movie of all time (in my eyes anyways) At times it makes me think of something Takashi Miike could have made. Zebraman, hobgoblins and the great wall, audition and several other of his movies has this dream/fiction/reality theme going that reminds me a bit, but Pans labyrinth just seems to have a whole lot more work behind it than (I make 5 movies every year) Miike usually does. Also Hayao Miyazaki comes to mind with the colorful and almost magical storytelling, hell parts of it even made me think of the master him self Terry Gilliam. The monsters are awesome, and even though the pale man is freaky and scary as hell, he is no match for the truly utterly nasty monster "captain evil". In a really solid 2006 when it comes to movies I would personally have to put this outing on top as the best of the year.