Very fine film

Rating: 8/10 (15 December 2006)

I always liked Guillermo del Toro's films;but on his most serious films(Chronos or The devil's backbone)I noticed that they need something else to be more than good movies of fantastic genre.Pan's labyrinth is another of his serious movies and something similar happened to me with this one:it is a good movie which lacks of that something that would make it excellent;here ''something'' is originality like his other serious movies.The best thing about Pan's labyrinth is that it shakes three parallel stories that they unite doing something credible.At one sight,the movie shows the familiar drama of the main girl,her mother and the mother's boyfriend;for other sight,the movie shows the horrors of the civil war and for other sight,the movie shows Pan's fantastic world.The performances are excellent,but the best ones are Sergi Lopez's,Maribel Verdú's and Ivana Baquero's.I liked this movie pretty much and I consider it very good;if it had been more original,it would have been better.Of the serious movies Del Toro made,this is my favorite movie.