I just read on IMDB that they had to put a warning that it is not for small children as parents were bringing their kids to the cinema.
It was surprisingly dark. I am usually not into fantasy but I was really curious because sometimes I feel I need to educate myself, and also I have become appreciating the director, Guillermo del Toro. Have you seen "The Shape of Water" or the first two "Hellboy" movies? In all of these movies you will find weird characters, but also great imagination of sets and costumes and rich decoration, and I really like that. It's a magical world.
I originally only watched the second Hellboy movie because Seth MacFarlane is voicing a character there. He does not even play him, only voice him. I was very reluctant at first, thinking I would not enjoy it, but in the end I can truly say that I did, and Doug Jones who works a lot with this director and is really great at playing all these magical figures (it took him 5 hours to get into costume for one of the characters of this movie, can you imagine?) did draw me in at the end.
Pan's Labyrinth is set during the Spanish civil war, so we have the real and very bad world on one side, and the fantasy world that needs to be saved on the other side. And the girl is the heroine.
Sadly that beautiful dress that her mother made for her does not stay pristine for very long as she is then crawling through mud and it gets ripped apart :(
She also feels a bit like Alice in Wonderland to me.
Also, as I just learnt, the movie is not in English but in Spanish, with subtitles. But my version was dubbed German (on TV) of course.
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It was surprisingly dark. I am usually not into fantasy but I was really curious because sometimes I feel I need to educate myself, and also I have become appreciating the director, Guillermo del Toro. Have you seen "The Shape of Water" or the first two "Hellboy" movies? In all of these movies you will find weird characters, but also great imagination of sets and costumes and rich decoration, and I really like that. It's a magical world.
I originally only watched the second Hellboy movie because Seth MacFarlane is voicing a character there. He does not even play him, only voice him. I was very reluctant at first, thinking I would not enjoy it, but in the end I can truly say that I did, and Doug Jones who works a lot with this director and is really great at playing all these magical figures (it took him 5 hours to get into costume for one of the characters of this movie, can you imagine?) did draw me in at the end.
Pan's Labyrinth is set during the Spanish civil war, so we have the real and very bad world on one side, and the fantasy world that needs to be saved on the other side. And the girl is the heroine.
Sadly that beautiful dress that her mother made for her does not stay pristine for very long as she is then crawling through mud and it gets ripped apart :(
She also feels a bit like Alice in Wonderland to me.
Also, as I just learnt, the movie is not in English but in Spanish, with subtitles. But my version was dubbed German (on TV) of course.