So, it’s not worth consuming because you believed it was a kid’s movie? It’s freaking rated R. Was that not a giveaway? I mean…how many kid’s movies have been rated R in the last 60 years? So all of these “it wasn’t what I was expecting” reviews are useless. Look at the rating before you see a movie. I don’t see how you could possibly not know. It’s insane.

Anyway, this is a pretty great movie. It makes Guillermo Del Toro the kind of director that gets to do anything he wants for his next picture. That’s how good it is.

It also shows us how gutless American cinema is. You’d never see a movie like this done in the US. This is a film that strangles you with the “this is how fairy tales really are” mentality. It’s hard to really get into it without spoiling the entire movie, so I’ll just summarize it in 3 bullet points.

1. Best movie of the year
2. Deserves every Oscar is was nominated for (and a few it wasn’t nominated for)
3. Guillermo Del Toro will receive a standing ovation from the crowd when he accepts his best foreign language film Oscar.