Seen once and 6/14/15
3/4
While Pan's Labyrinth has the credit of being probably the world's premier adult fairytale--and one of only a few; a true revolutionary of its kind--my second viewing informed me that the film is basically no more than that; a conventional fairytale structure, only with enhanced effects, thicker background thematic content and a higher level of grotesqueness and brutality which are what allow the visionary Guillermo del Toro to drive his fantasy in deeper. del Toro is the auter here; this is his movie, and it's exclusively his child-like mind that gives the movie its worth and wonder. Judging this as an adult film, having a place in the real and harsh cinematic jungle, it isn't quite enough to be considered "great". It's a little too cheap and archetypal. But it is its own: very unique, and extremely valuable to that group of humans who has aged externally but not so much internally.
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