Film Review

The film I watched was Pan's Labyrinth. I really didn't want to watch this movie at first but my mom was watching it and it was on the list of movies we could watch so I decided to watch it with her. In the end, I ended up really liking it and I hope another movie like this one comes out. The special effects were amazing.

The director of this film is Guillermo Del Toro. The main actors are Ivana Baquero also known as Ofelia, the young girl who gets into all the mischeif, also the main character, Ariadna Gil, also known as Carmen who plays Ofelia's mom, Captain Vidal, also known as Sergi López who plays Ofelia's soon to be step-dad, and also the villian in the movie, and Pan, also known as Doug Jones who plays the character in search of his city's lost princess. In the beginning of the movie, Ofelia and her mother are on their way to Captian Vidal's house to move in with him. Carmen is pregnant with Ofelia's brother and Captain Vidal's son. When they arrive at their new home, Ofelia is distracted by a fairy that is motioning for her to follow it but her mother has different plans. Soon her mother becomes very sick and it's up to Ofelia to help her. Ofelia has to sneak around everywhere so she's not seen by her soon to be step-father. Ofelia goes down a path and runs into Pan. Pan gives her a book of things she needs to get done in order to save her mother, herself, and the lost city. The pages are blank to anyone else who reads it besides Ofelia. She comes across many obstacles in her journey. One, Pan gives her a healing herb to hopefully heal her mother, which works until Captain Vidal finds it and throws it in the fire. That just starts to make her mother even sicker. Two, Ofelia is on a mission to get something from a one eyed monster, who she accidentally wakes up and the monster eats one of the fairies. A war is also breaking out between Captain Vidal and a servants brother's gang. When the baby is born, Ofelia has to risk her life, along with the lives of everyone in the lost city. Will one young girl be able to do all that? Go and watch Pan's Labyrinth to find out!


Producer: Berta Nevarro
Screen Play: Guillermo Del Toro
Composer: Javier Navarette

I really liked this movie because it was one of the movies I could actually really get into and watch all the way through without wanting to get up for a while. The plot is unbelievable because it's filled with mystic creatures. I really did believe the actors while they were acting. They made the story so much better. If anyone else was in this movie, I don't think it would be the same. There were many visual effects in the movie, like all the characters, the setting around those characters and so much more. This movie is very much worth watching. The sound effects and the music made this movie more intense and more interesting. Movies would never be the same without those effects.