Hello and welcome to Griddy Films Nitty Griddy review for the 2006 fantasy movie
Pan's Labyrinth. This was written and directed by Guillermo del Toro and is
starring Ivana Baquero and Maribel Verdú. It's rated R for some graphic violence and
language. If you haven't seen Pan's Labyrinth, it's kind of like if the
movies The Little Princess and Children of Men had a baby that grew up in war-torn
1940s Spain. Why not? The first category is gonna be genre
and this is a fantasy movie but it's also very much so a fairy tale.
I like that Pan's Labyrinth in a lot of ways pays tribute to a lot of children's
fantasy movies that came before it, like The Little Princess, The Wizard of
Oz, Alice in Wonderland. But it also doesn't shy away from going dark and it
almost feels like a lost Brothers Grimm type fairy tale. Has a lot of violence, a
lot of death, and plays on these very heavy themes which is very true to
original fairy tales that, you know, weren't Disney Princess stories. They
were very dark and dealt with adult themes. The ending is just kind of a
twist to the genre. Technically, for Ophelia, it is a happy ending. She's is
reunited with her parents and she finds this life where she doesn't have to be
bound to Earth. She doesn't have to be-- she doesn't have to deal with death and
pain and sadness. And then you have the flip side of that where you have those
left behind who have no idea that this fantasy world exists and they're just
left mourning Ophelia's death. They don't get that release from the real world
that Ophelia does. I thought that was really well done that you still have
technically a happy ending but it's presented in such a way that it's also a
tragedy. For the genre category I gave this one a 10 out of 10, like many of the
categories we're gonna be going through. It was just perfect,
particularly because fairytales aren't typically a genre made for adults. I like
that it was able to be very true to the genre while still, you know, made for
adults. The next category is going to be writing. One of the first things I always look at
with writing is the journey that the hero goes through. In Pan's Labyrinth,
it's gonna be Ofelia and I really like that she has very clear and
distinct internal needs and external goals. Externally, she has, obviously, the
three trials it's very straightforward and then she also has internal needs
that aren't explicitly stated. She needs a father figure. She needs security and
safety. You know, she really--she needs a family and she needs to find out who she is
within that family unit, which I think is really interesting because she does
start off with her mother and her unborn brother and they are a very strong unit
but then they get thrown into this environment. She has the stepfather now.
Her mother wants her to call him father and she doesn't want to, obviously, so
there's just a lot of interesting conflicts going on internally that aid
in the external goal because she wants to, you know, finish the trials to be
reunited with her father and just to be away from from war and death and pain. I
also like that within the quests, she technically fails two of the three tasks.
She had agency and she kind of created her own story and, in so doing, proved
herself to to the Faun and ultimately to her father. The characters were a little
bit one-dimensional which I think actually plays into the fairy tale genre
very well. I wish we had gotten a little bit more
character development, particularly with characters like Carmen, who I think it was
a really interesting character that maybe could have been developed just a
little bit more. You know, I want--just wanted to know a little bit more about the
decisions she made--I need to know every answer. I like that things are open-ended.
I like that we don't know every single thing, but it's--that's one character
particularly that I just wanted to know a little bit more about, just to know why
she's making these decisions. I gave the writing category an 8.8,
which I consider to be a solid A. Really, the only thing that knocked it down was
some of the character arcs and development that I wish had just been a
little bit stronger. I was probably a little bit harsher on it in this movie
than I would in a lot of other movies just because it
was so perfect in pretty much every other category, but still, an 8.8 out
of 10 is still well above average and very strong. The next category is gonna
be the editing and the special effects. I think one of the biggest things that
stood out for me was the scene with the giant toad and I--I do understand this
movie, I mean, it was made in 2006. Technology has come a huge way in the
last almost 12 years. They had a lot of trouble--they did actually built, like, a
giant puppet but it wasn't really able to move around so they had to, you know,
do a lot of last minute changes just to get it to look right. You know,
the scene they have, it's a good scene, but I just wish they had been able to get the
puppet to work because I--you know, anytime you can have a practical effect,
nine times out of 10, it's gonna look way better than computer-generated,
particularly at that time. It's getting to where that's mot necessarily true now.
There are a lot of scenes that have the CGI that work a lot better than that
scene. There's the slash and Vidal's mouth that looks really good, the legs of both the
Faun and the Pale Man were largely CGI, things like that. There's definitely very
good CGI but that one scene, it takes me out of the movie enough that I did have
to take a few points off. Another slight issue I had with the editing was the
pacing in the Pale Man scene. It's not awful by any means and it's still one of
the best scenes in the movie, it just seems like a very long chase scene in
which he probably should have gotten a little bit closer to her. It just like it
maybe should've been either cut a little bit shorter or maybe filmed a little bit
differently, just something to make it a little bit more suspenseful or a little
bit more believable that this monster never caught up with her and, again, I'm
probably being a little bit more harsh on some of these things than I would be
in other movies just because there's very few flaws in this movie. One aspect
of the editing that I really, really liked is the use of transitions. There's
a lot of camera movement that turns into kind of a swipe from one scene to the
next. It's used very effectively to kind of
combine, in a way, like, the real world versus the fantasy worlds and you also
get almost like--almost feels like a page is turning which almost kind of adds
to the fairytale feel, as well. For the editing category, I gave it an 8 out of
10 which is gonna be an A-. The editing is really really strong.
I think editing a lot of times kind of gets lost in the background. Classical
editing is also called invisible cuts because you're not really supposed to
notice it and in this movie you do notice it a little bit more but it
aids the storytelling in pretty significant ways. The next category is
gonna be sound design and in this case the score alone is probably enough to
give this category a 10 out of 10. It has simplicity, it's got that
lullaby feel, and yet it's has a hauntingness to it. It it's just beautiful. It's a
part of the story. It becomes, you know, it's diegetic at times, which I think
really aids in the emotional impact of the score overall and it's just a--it's
just beautiful. There's also a general soundscape throughout the movie that
really aids in the storytelling and the world building. It's just really
full-bodied, I guess? It's not a cluttered soundscape throughout the movie but it
is very complex and just really aids the story which, I mean, that's pretty much my
number one. If something sounds really cool or looks really cool but does
nothing to tell the story, I'm probably not gonna pay too much extra attention
to it but, in this movie, there's so many perfect scores within these categories
because everything aids the story in such a specific way and the sound design
is no exception. So, for sound design overall I gave it a 10 out of 10,
perfect. The next category is gonna be acting and casting. For this movie, it was
a little bit harder for me to judge because I don't speak Spanish
and one of the many reasons I wish I spoke Spanish would be so that I could, you
know, understand the movie or appreciate the movie on a deeper level. A lot of my
time was spent reading the subtitles and I wasn't able to focus as much on the
facial expressions or body language or even the tone
or the way, you know, the words were delivered. Certainly that comes across
but it's just harder to pay full attention to those types of details when
you're also reading the dialogue. However, from what I could see and hear and
understand and from what I know about the actors, it was extremely well cast
with very talented actors. So, for acting and casting, I gave it a 10 out of 10,
perfect score. The next category is gonna be the directing and the cinematography.
I think it's no surprise that pretty much down the line within the grid,
it's perfect scores. This is one of those movies that's mentioned in almost every
filmmaking textbook at some point, usually when talking about lighting and
there's a reason for that. It's one of the most beautiful films ever shot.
The lighting and the color palettes really add to not just the mood and the beauty,
there's also a clear distinction between the fantasy world and the real world,
with the real world being colder and harsher and the fantasy world being
warmer. The camera movement throughout is just some of the most beautiful
camerawork I think I've seen possibly ever. Guillermo del Toro describes it as
kind of a ballet with the camera, or between the camera and the actor. I mean,
it's choreographed. It's has a flow to it and it certainly has a beauty to it the
way a dance would. I love the camera movement throughout. The lighting is
amazing. The mise-en-scene, you have some really good shots in there, particularly
with the Faun and Ophelia. Those are some of my favorite shots. There's a quote in
the audio commentary for the movie that I really loved. Guillermo del Toro was
talking about the, you know, the transitions that I was talking about
earlier and he said something along the lines of, you know, this isn't just
eye candy, it's I protein. I think it really gets the point across that, it's like, yes
this does look really pretty but it's not just there to look beautiful. It, you
know, it aids the storytelling, it aids the world-building. It's protein. It's there
for a reason and I really appreciate that in this movie, I mean, every single
choice that Guillermo del Toro makes was to further the story and to further the
world-building. Everything culminates to tell a story
and nothing is there just to be there. So, it's hands down, no question about it,
directing and cinematography, 10 out of 10. The next category in the grid is
gonna be character aesthetics. This is the be hair, makeup, and costumes. You know,
pretty much any period piece movie is gonna have a little bit higher than
average, just by its nature, when it comes to costumes and, you know, hair, things
like that, but then this movie just takes it even above that with the amazing
monster makeup, particularly when it comes to the Pale Man and the Faun, both
acted by Doug Jones. The craftsmanship that went into those are just beyond
impressive. Also within the costumes you have the
homages to other very famous fantasy films like the red shoes from The Wizard
of Oz or the dress from Alice in Wonderland and it just adds to the
fairytale fantasy feel. You also have things like the fabric choices and the
color choices that go into the color palettes of the fantasy world versus the
real world. So, every single choice when it comes to the costumes throughout this
movie really aid the storytelling and are clearly made for a purpose. So, I gave
character aesthetics, easily, a 10 out of 10. The next category is going to be
environmental aesthetics. This is going to include sets, props, and locations. If
you want to learn more about the sets in this movie, I highly suggest you get
ahold of either the DVD or the blu-ray. Guillermo del Toro talks a lot about his
decisions within the set design on the audio commentary as well as throughout
most of the special features and the movie, I mean, all of the sets and props
and locations everything looks beautiful throughout. I probably would have given
it a 10 out of 10 anyway for those categories, which, spoiler alert, I gave a
10 out of ten10. But, you know, once you hear him talk about every single choice
he made and you really start to notice just these intricate details that you don't
necessarily notice but, I think on a subconscious leve,l it has an effect. So,
easily, yet another 10 outta 10 category
for the environmental aesthetics. The next category in my grid is gonna be impact
on film and this one I divide up into three subcategories. I'm gonna have cult
impact, critical impact, and inspirational impact. For critical impact, I easily gave
it a full 5 out of 5 for that one. lLike I mentioned before, it's mentioned
in a lot of textbooks, it was accepted very well critically, and it's held up over
the last over 10 years. For inspirational impact, I think it did inspire a lot of
people as far as genre goes, as far as cinematography, for sure. I think a lot of
directors you can kind of see drew inspiration from this movie. Easily
another 5 out of 5 there. And the last one is gonna be cult impact and this one
I gave a 4 out of 5 mostly because I feel like it's not quite mainstream
enough to have a full-on cult impact. So. overall for impact on film, it's still
go a 9.3, which is an A. The last category on my grid is
gonna be overall enjoyment and I think it comes as no surprise that I gave it
ten out of ten. It's very nearly a perfect movie overall, certainly when it
comes to enjoyability. It's not necessarily a fun film to watch but it's
just, I mean, it's visually appealing, it's a very compelling story, it's extremely
well-made overall. I mean, how can you not enjoy this movie? So, you know, easily 10
out of 10, perfect. I also gave Pan's Labyrinth a few points of extra credit.
The first point was simply because I watched this movie at least two, maybe more times
than that, in film school and had to dissect it and talk about it and still
liked it after that. Like, I always got excited when this came up on the
syllabus and I'm still excited to watch it, so, it definitely has repeatability.
You can definitely watch it, analyze it over and over and over again, always find
something new and always like it. I also gave it an extra point because this is the
movie that introduced me to Guillermo del Toro. If you're not familiar with
Guillermo del Toro, he's done a combination of Mexican movies
and Hollywood movies. His Hollywood movies include Blade 2, Hellboy and Hellboy 2,
Crimson Peak as one of his more recent ones. And then within his Spanish-speaking
movies, he has, obviously, Pan's Labyrinth. He also has Cronos and Devil's Backbone.
He's a very, very strong director. He's easily one of my favorites, obviously,
with the feedback I've been giving with this movie. Yeah, I'm glad I was
introduced to his work. Anytime he's got movie coming out, you just got to
go see it. I'm really excited for The Shape of Water, which is coming out soon. On a
similar note, if you're ever interested in auteur theory, which is where you
study the collective works of a director, I highly suggest you go through
Guillermo del Toro's work. It's a really interesting blend when you look at his
Mexican, Spanish-speaking movies in comparison with his Hollywood,
English-speaking movies. There's a lot of similarities there's some differences
and it's a really interesting experience. And I also highly suggest, if you ever
get the chance, watching The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth back-to-
back and then listening to the audio commentary for Pan's Labyrinth. It'll be
an amazing experience and you'll learn a ton. I also gave this movie one last point
of extra credit just for all the homages to other movies. I just think it's fun
but it also adds to the story. The total score for this movie came
extremely close to a perfect 100. I tried to be very harsh in my
judgments and I think I did perhaps nitpick a little bit in a few of the
categories but, regardless, this movie got a 99.13 total percentage on my
grid, so it's extremely close to perfect. I obviously recommend it to anybody.
Maybe not kids. You know it's not--it's a fairy tale but it's not for kids. It's
rated R for a reason. Yeah, for the most part, everybody should see this movie. If you
have seen it, let me know if you think it's fair to say that this movie's
pretty much basically a perfect movie. Did you find any flaws that I didn't? Let
me know. So, that's about it for the Nitty Griddy review of Pan's
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