Somebody should tell naive, nimrod adults like myself that just because a movie sounds like a kids movie, does not a kid movie it make.
I thought Pan’s Labyrinth would be one of those lovely, Disneyeque, definitely-has-a-happy-ending flick. First, it’s got the word ‘Labyrinth’ in it, which conjures up images of David Bowie jumping around with Muppet creatures singing Dance Magic Dance. And when you read about Pan’s Lab on the interweb it sounds innocent enough, “the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.”
So Boyfriend took me to see it.
Captivating fantasy world my butt! This is an awful movie about broken promises, broken dreams, broken hearts, dead mothers, murdered little girls, an eggplant-fetus thing that gets burned alive, soldiers being tortured, executions of poor innocent farmers, giant cave-rat type creatures chasing kids around banquet halls, ugly fairies and a scary, scary maze. FYI, fairies are supposed to be pretty and colourful and spray pixie dust which makes flowers glow. They are not supposed to look like mini flying Satans.
Spoiler alert – every single good, kind person in this movie dies, including the main character. The little girl gets SHOT by her adoptive father.
Yet I was the only one upset . Boyfriend and Boyfriend’s work mate were fine when the movie finished. Cheery, in fact.
They didn’t get it. I think their ability to separate reality from made-up-movie-land is more developed than mine.
Ice-cream sweet, sweet things make Allie happy, Allie not happy at the moment so maybe solution ice-cream.
Yes, definitely solution ice-cream. Ice-cream meaning of life.
I thought Pan’s Labyrinth would be one of those lovely, Disneyeque, definitely-has-a-happy-ending flick. First, it’s got the word ‘Labyrinth’ in it, which conjures up images of David Bowie jumping around with Muppet creatures singing Dance Magic Dance. And when you read about Pan’s Lab on the interweb it sounds innocent enough, “the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.”
So Boyfriend took me to see it.
Captivating fantasy world my butt! This is an awful movie about broken promises, broken dreams, broken hearts, dead mothers, murdered little girls, an eggplant-fetus thing that gets burned alive, soldiers being tortured, executions of poor innocent farmers, giant cave-rat type creatures chasing kids around banquet halls, ugly fairies and a scary, scary maze. FYI, fairies are supposed to be pretty and colourful and spray pixie dust which makes flowers glow. They are not supposed to look like mini flying Satans.
Spoiler alert – every single good, kind person in this movie dies, including the main character. The little girl gets SHOT by her adoptive father.
Yet I was the only one upset . Boyfriend and Boyfriend’s work mate were fine when the movie finished. Cheery, in fact.
They didn’t get it. I think their ability to separate reality from made-up-movie-land is more developed than mine.
Ice-cream sweet, sweet things make Allie happy, Allie not happy at the moment so maybe solution ice-cream.
Yes, definitely solution ice-cream. Ice-cream meaning of life.
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