Fairytale for adults

Rating: 9/10 (3 August 2008)

Pan's Labyrinth was visually stunning, the story was engaging, the directing was fantastic, as were the location of the scenes. The only reason I'm giving this a nine instead of a ten is because the ending leaves so much more to be desired.
As an audience, we get to escape into a surreal magical reality alongside a warring and dark reality and we (the audience) go through all these "tests" and are finally waiting for something extraordinary to happen in the end, and it doesn't. Not having that magical thing happen was a let down: I wanted more. Having more would have allowed me to give this film a ten.
Anyways, this isn't a film for small children and while the grisly violence and gore is nowhere near the shade of some of the other horror films, for the mainstream audience, it deserves the warning.
Overall, this was just a very good film. If they make a sequel, hopefully they'll make it in English (watching the film with subtitles was a bit difficult). 9/10