[tenguzero]

Definitely a quality flick. For some reason, I thought Pan's voice actually came off better in Spanish. While I have no problem with subtitles (and indeed prefer them when the situation calls for such) at first I was kind of hesitant -- although the fact that it was a movie set around a spanish military garrison kind of required such a treatment. For the first 5 seconds of spoken dialog from Pan though, I was questioning it. Then I immediately and completely decided I really liked it.

Also it was nothing short of sheer mastery in the way they blended the whimsical fantasy, gritty reality, and macabre events and characters -- three themes that are generally major opposites of each other. Definitely a welcome change -- it's a shame it isn't more widely available. Out of the 4 major theatres within a half hour of me, it was playing at only one.