Pan's Downfall is its Director.

Rating: 3/10 (8 January 2007)

On the surface this sounds like a very intriguing and entertaining film. The juxtaposition of fairy tales and childhood innocence with the horrors of war seen through the eyes of a little girl sounds like a good backbone to a movie.
However, Guillermo Del Toro fumbles big time. with a directorial style that nearly put me to sleep. Del Toro manages to make scenes with faeries, Faun's and flesh eating monsters dull, that in itself is an amazing talent. The magical and fairy tale elements of the film are about as uninteresting as the main focus of the movie, the villain.
This movie spends so much time trying to shove the idea down my throat that the general in this movie is a maniac that it looses a little more every time this horribly over-acted character was on screen.
The characters, the sets, everything until the final credits was an exercise in mediocrity and boredom.
The sole interesting thing in this movie were the creature effects showcased in the movie, as with Hellboy, they are done masterfully.
Unfortunately, also like Hellboy, this film contains many amazing looking things and very little substance and very little reason to care about anything you see on screen.