Well I've finally seen it. Now there were some fantastic elements of it, but my chief complaint is the cartoonish super villian of Captain Vidal. I know this is a fairy tale, so the bad have to be really bad, but with this grounded in a historical time frame, I thought you may as well have had Vidal being the monster that eats the children. His villiany as far too over the top and brought the film down a bit. The moments in the labyrinth were amazing, and I just hoped that the film was more if not entirely composed of those elements. Also stop reading if you haven't seen it, but the notion of the resistance fighters winning out is a little silly considering Franco's regime would last another several decades, but I guess you need some happy ending for the land above. I did like it but I'm being nitpicking.