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Pan's Labyrinth ( laberinto del fauno, El ) (2006) Movie Information |
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Overall Rank: |
69 |
Avg. Rating: |
3.15/4 |
# of Ratings: |
884 |
Genres: |
Drama, Fantasy |
Rating: |
R |
Language: |
Spanish |
Theater Date: | 12/29/2006 |
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Director: |
Guillermo Del Toro |
Actors: |
Ariadna Gil
Ivana Baquero
Sergi López
Maribel Verdú
Álex Angulo
Doug Jones |
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Plot Outline:
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A WWII inspired story of an imaginative young girl who is forced to move onto a small military outpost with her mother. She creates a world of fairies and fawns to escape the unhappiness in her life.
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mitchellyoung 02/18/2013 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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4/4 |
Pan's Labyrinth is Guillermo Del Toro's masterwork. It tells a macabre Alice in Wonderland type story, framed against a tragic WWII setting. The film features a host of creative and dark visuals and succeeds on both the adventure and thriller fronts. More importantly, though, Del Toro shows great emotional depth in directing the more human elements of the story that collide with the created fantasy realm. |
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Alaine 12/13/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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2.5/4 |
Everybody's darling. I'll see it again sometime and try to raise my rating of it. Dark, difficult, symbolic. |
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12/16/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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"Pan's Labyrinth" by Yojimbo |
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A little girl and her pregnant mother are relocated to an army camp to be with the unborn baby's father, an officious and sadistic captain in Franco's fascist military. Pan's Labyrinth is a gothic fantasy that sees a young girl escape into a world of fauns, fairys and political allegory to escape her cold, cruel, clockwatching, jack-booted step-father who is a kindred spirit of Schindler's List's Goethe. Once again Del Toro blends beautiful imagery with an affecting war story and the result is an enchanting experience that mirrors the fight between good and evil in both the real world and a young child's imagination. Young Ivana Baquero puts in a performance that belies her tender years and the stunning visuals create a fantasy world that is beautiful yet conveys a suitably dark and distu... |
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3/4 |
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10/19/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Pan's Labyrinth review |
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The setting is during the post-Civil War Spain in 1944. Carmen (Gil), with Ofelia (Baquero), will meet the fascist Captain Vidal (López). Mercedes (Verdú), one of many loyal helps of the Captain, is a spy for the anti-fascist rebels, including her brother. Ofelia meets a faun (Doug Jones), who believes her to be Princess Moanna and gives her three tasks to complete to ensure everything will be intact. Some amazing quotes: Faun – “A long time ago, in the underground realm, where there are no lies or pain, there lived a Princess who dreamt of the human world.” Dr. Ferreiro – “But captain, to obey- just like that- for the sake of obeying... without questioning... that's something only people like you can do Captain.” Carmen – “You're getting older, and you'll see that life isn't like yo... |
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3.5/4 |
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02/25/2010 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Pan's Labyrinth Goozernation Movie Review |
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Pan's labyrinth, written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, is a Spanish-language fantasy that takes place in historical Spain in 1944. The story tells about a young girl named Ofelia and her desire to escape the hardships that she faces, and live a life free from the civil war-ridden Spain. Being a young adolescent, Ofelia is pressured to give up her childish dreams and book-like fantasies in place of a more realistic dark adult-hood. After meeting a mystical faun, Ofelia must decide whether or not she will give in to these pressures of a dark grown-up reality, or carry out the difficult tasks given to her by the faun in order to capture her dreams.
Guillermo del Toro does an excellent job at portraying the contrast between living in reality and searching for one's dreams. Del Toro i... |
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4/4 |
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I knew right away that Pan's Labyrinth was not a kid's movie at all, but a grim (pardon the pun.) fairy tale for grown-ups. |
07/08/2012
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i thought it was a kid's movie until i actually watched it & then i had to tell my little brother to close his eyes & cover his ears through the violent parts. the story line wasn't too bad, but it is disturbing especially the end. i liked it, as weird as that may sound, but don't recommend it for anyone who might have a sensitive stomach to bloody beatdowns. |
03/10/2009
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For those of you who want to see it: Keep in mind it is INCREDIBLY brutal. For instance, a man beats another man's face in with a bottle, shoots another guy 3 times, turns back to the guy who he beat and shoots his head. It explodes. It may sound awesome but it can distrub you immensly. |
03/09/2009
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