Pan's Labyrinth

I finally got around to seeing Pan's Labyrinth on Friday night with the help of Iain "I need no sleep" Playle. Over at Rotten Tomatoes here it's got an unbelievable 100% rating and while it is very good, it isn't quite that good. It's not so much a fantasy story as a war story with a little bit of fantasy around the edges - the fantasy creatures are great (though there should be more of them), the acting from the Captain and the little girl Ofelia is fantastic and it was a lot scarier and more gruesome than I expected. If you like weird foreign films with subtitles, symbolic and allegorical overtones and lots of shooting then go and see it.