Pan's Labyrinth [2006]

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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5060034579618 Format: Anamorphic Label: Optimum Home Entertainment Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Optimum Home Entertainment Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2007-05-21 Running Time: 119 Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: 2007-02-22
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Editorial Reviews: 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 humour of Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth represents Guillermo Del Toro at the top of his considerable game. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Stunning Comment: There is just one word to describe this movie,stunning. Hollywood just ca't make movies as good as this. I can't believe some people are giving it one star. Customer Rating: Summary: Another Optimum POOR QUALITY dvd. Comment: The actual movie ^Pans Labyrinth^ I would give 4 Stars. It is a stunning film. But Optimum Release 2 disc DVD I give 1 star and that^s generous. The first disc buzzes extremely loudly while loading and for at leasr 30 minutes of the film (1st disc), the extras (2nd disc) buzzes just as horrendously throughout. I would of said well it^s just A faulty dvd. But the problem is that this is the 4th title I^ve bought by Optimum release all they have always been faulty, every single one.! They nearly all buzz loudly throughout or have picture faults. As I realy want a good copy of this movie I^m going to have to buy the ntsc version by a different distributer. Customer Rating: Summary: Overrated Comment: Very strange film. Set during the civil war with a bit of fantasy thrown in. Doesn't quite work to me. The fantasy seemed a sub-plot more than what I expected to be - the main plot. No-where near as good as I hoped it would be. More dark than magical, pretty violent but then fairy tales are! The actor who played the Captain was very good, the best and strongest character in the film. Very powerful performance. One watch was enough but I'm glad I've experienced it. The cinematography was beautiful. Customer Rating: Summary: MOst OverHyped WaR film Comment: Mix a war story (civial war) with a fantasy world then put some essence of tragic drama and some Bollywood emotions, you will get this movie right. The film would not have been very different even if you have omitted the fantasy part. They seems to be disconnected somehow. The same old story of stepfather being unfriendly to a child and the child finds shelter in her fantasy. Can you imagine? that after being shot at back, a man can take off his glasses, wipe his nose and then fall down. No joke - the doctor did. Nobody knows why Mercedes left the Captain alive. If she can open his mouth wider, she could have cut his neck more easily. This is stupid, considering a war film. The the faun suddenly forgave her without any real reason (just like he was so harsh on the child who has completed the second task) and ask her to do the third task. It appears, the film is better to continue that way. How come the labyrinth, which opened up for the girl, also opened up for her step-father (when she was chased) ? Was it not that the fantasy world was only for the child? If her father can also enter her fantasy then everything would have been very different. The child died when she came out of the underworld, and that is why she has to take a rebirth to get back to her real father who was waiting for centuries. But at the end, the child has to die again to be reunited with her world. Is it not funny? Customer Rating: Summary: Dark and Engaging Fairy Tale Comment: I really enjoyed this one. A young Spanish girl struggles in a dark age of war and learns she may find her salvation if she undertakes a fantastical quest. An engaging movie with some unique ideas about fairy tales. That eyeless worm guy is my favourite bit! More Reviews