Big hype behind this film

Rating: 7/10 (15 August 2011)

And it lives up to it.
Mainly because it's not the film the hype builds it up to be.
OK it is a fantasy film, but it's also just as much about the post Spanish civil war conflict. Which actually takes up the majority of this film, and is as every bit as good as the fantasy side.
Sometimes it's like watching two different films inter-winding, but it's done well, and could easily have gone on for another hour.
It's darker than normal fantasy films, with a couple of brutal scenes, most on the war side of the film, not fantasy.
So.. what happened? was she really the princess of the underworld? or, more likely, what she just completely crazy?...