5/10. I'm not really sure what to make of this movie. It certainly wasn't what I was expecting. It was much much darker than I pictured it being from what little I'd heard about it before hand.
Basically a fairy tale set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War in 1944. That's all it really is. I'm sure there are deeper meanings and metaphors than I got out of it, but they were lost on me.
I guess you could compare this to a David Lynch film with a classical narrative structure, as it was apparently very personal to Guillermo Del Toro, the director, and it was very surreal in parts. So while I'm sure Del Toro loved it, and others around the world appeared to have loved it as well (at least judging from it's IMDB score), I was just kind alternating between being appalled and apathetic about this story. It really didn't live up to it's hype to me. To sum up how I feel about this movie: "meh".
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