From reading your review and some others, I got the impression that this was somewhat of a Fantasy/Action film with a message - something I don`t really care about anymore since having to sit through the first two LotR movies at the cinema (some of the worst cinematic torture in my life). I`ll have to get over it eventually, and maybe Pan`s Labyrinth will do the task. I just hope it`s really slow old fashioned storytelling like indicated by Darabont, and there wont be any frightening or disturbing scenes (even stuff from The Cell (2000) is too much right now).