This DVD item from New Line Home Video was reviewed on 23-Oct-2008.
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1) DVD DVD Pan's Labyrinth by New Line Home Video. Great movie. I wish there was an english speaking version, but that´s not the way the film was meant to be watched.
Highly raccomend it
¤ 2) DVD DVD Pan's Labyrinth by New Line Home Video. Thank you for this movie.
This has got to be one of the darkest, most brutal, yet strangely sweet story lines I have ever encountered. With fantastic creatures from the realm of make-believe, combined with the harsh realism of a war torn land, a struggle arises between the two that finds a very fitting niche on the silver screen.
Rodney Kase Tyrone
11-16-2008
4:23 A.M.¤ 3) DVD DVD Pan's Labyrinth by New Line Home Video. During the years of Fascist oppression in Spain, young Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) moves to a creepy mill in the countryside with her pregnant mother (Ariadna Gil) and violent stepfather (Sergi Lopez), who is a military officer hunting rebels in the surrounding mountains. Ofelia discovers that she has a powerful connection to a grotesque, wonder-filled world of magic and fantasy and undergoes great drama as events come to a head in both the realms of magic and reality.
Director / writer Guillermo del Toro has established himself as one of the premier fantasists of cinema. His distinctive visual sense is used to great advantage here. This fairy tale is not so much for children as for adults who may have forgotten the horror at the root of all fairy tales in this Disneyfied era, as well as their mythic connections to real world events. Del Toro remembers and incorporates this understanding in his powerful film.
¤ 4) DVD DVD Pan's Labyrinth by New Line Home Video. A fantastic fairy tale Grimm-like (for adults, be great if they could make one rated for children) with superb cinematography, hauntingly wonderful yet sad music and brilliant set design and creatures. A sincere and brave young girl Ofelia, follows a fairy into a labyrinth (like Alice chasing a rabbit and fallen into a hole) and finds she have to follow 3 tasks to return as a princess who once left her true home (I had a dream as a child about being in another realm wanting to see the surface world which is why I can relate to her character) a long time ago to see the surface world. They are not easy tasks a child can perform and even an adult might have a hard time of it. The movie made me wishing and made me cry and the story itself is solid with very good acting from all the performers. Doug Jones {silver surfer} portrays the creatures with such realism and Ivana Baquero is such a darling with her performance.¤ 5) DVD DVD Pan's Labyrinth by New Line Home Video. I´ve always liked Spanish cinema and this movie is not an exception. Amazing acting, amazing scenarios, even better special effects... everything!
BWT, thanks for not dubbing this movie.¤ 6) DVD DVD Pan's Labyrinth by New Line Home Video. Following a bloody civil war, young Ofelia enters a world of unimaginable cruelty when she moves in with her new stepfather, a tyrannical military officer. Armed with only her imagination, Ofelia discovers a mysterious labyrinth and meets a faun who sets her on a path to saving herself and her ailing mother. But soon, the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur, and before Ofelia can turn back, she finds herself at the center of a ferocious battle between good and evil. DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
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¤7) DVD DVD Pan's Labyrinth by New Line Home Video. Inspired by the Brothers Grimm, Jorge Luis Borges, and Guillermo del Toro´s own unlimited imagination, Pan´s Labyrinth is a fairytale for adults. Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) may only be 12, but the worlds she inhabits, both above and below ground, are dark as anything del Toro has conjured. Set in rural Spain, circa 1944, Ofelia and her widowed mother, Carmen (Ariadna Gil, Belle Epoque), have just moved into an abandoned mill with Carmen´s new husband, Captain Vidal (Sergi López, With a Friend like Harry). Carmen is pregnant with his son. Other than her sickly mother and kindly housekeeper Mercedes (Maribel Verdú, Y Tu Mamá También), the dreamy Ofelia is on her own. Vidal, an exceedingly cruel man, couldn´t be bothered. He has informers to torture. Ofelia soon finds that an entire universe exists below the mill. Her guide is the persuasive Faun (Doug Jones, Mimic). As her mother grows weaker, Ofelia spends more and more time in the satyr´s labyrinth. He offers to help her out of her predicament if she´ll complete three treacherous tasks. Ofelia is willing to try, but does this alternate reality really exist or is it all in her head? Del Toro leaves that up to the viewer to decide in a beautiful, yet brutal twin to The Devil´s Backbone, which was also haunted by the ghost of Franco. Though it lacks the humor of Hellboy, Pan´s Labyrinth represents Guillermo Del Toro at the top of his considerable game. --Kathleen C. Fennessy¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 20-Nov-2008, 794043107177, ARB-KEB-LWB-6WB-1IB-HQB-QCB-C6B-4QB-V8B-LGB-ZAB-YOB-O0B-4CB-8 
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