A fantasy? A drama? Philosophic? Cruel? Thriller? bloody?

Rating: 1/10 (20 January 2007)

Is it a fantasy movie? I don't think so, 3 or 4 fairy ugly creatures (not like nightmare before Christmas lovable ugly though dirty ugly!) with an uncertain role in the film! Is it really comparable to Charlie and chocolate factory? What exactly is the relationship between Ofelia and movie theme? A stupid story of reading a book  finding a key a sword a drop of blood and then going back to heaven? Then why should we know a lot about Capitan, why should we know that Capitan fix his own watch, wax his shoes himself, Even do his own surgery? Who is Mercedes in the movie anyway? Is it a fantasy thriller movie? First, its not thriller, it's bloody-disgusting. Does he thinks he is so brave or so avant-guard to show cutting off a leg, distorting a face with a bottle, sewing someone's own mouth? Second, if so, why at the end of the film Capitan saw Ofelia talks to herself instead of a real creature? Should we think of it as a philosophical point (a very weak one though!)? We can't say this film can actually bring two completely different genres together.
Wanted to bring fairy tale in real cruel world with use of a little girl imagination? When exactly should we understand this fabulous fantastic new awesome idea? At the very beginning of the film when Ofelia thought she saw a fairy creature OR when her mother get healed after she put something under her bed OR when she goes through walls OR when Capitan saw her talks to herself? Boring? Yes! Evils and Angels, Goodies overcome. We hate Capitan, and nice-brave Mercedes gets our revenge from him! Ofelia? Was the story around her?! Capitan's son's only role in film was that "his fairy tale" movie needs a blood of an innocent to complete the nonsense.