Pan's Labyrinth

The tagline "Innocence has a power evil cannot imagine" fits perfectly for this movie. Although somewhat violent, this is a unique story about Ofelia, a girl who moves out of the city and into the country during 1944 fascist Spain. She is joined with her very pregnant mother, Carmen, to live with the mother's new husband, a sadistic and evil army general, Capitan Vidal. Ofelia is very bookish and still reads and believes in fairy tales. She goes exploring and finds a fairy that leads her to a labryinth and Pan, whom subsequently tells Ofelia that she is the lost princess of his world. What follows is plenty of adventure, action and intrigue to sustain anyone. It is subtitled and bloody in some scenes so this is for around teenagers and older. Ivana Baquero as Ofelia and Maribel Verdu as Mercedes the maid/nanny are both wonderful actresses. I give this a creative storyline thumbs up.