Do not see this movie. I really regret ever watching it. Whatever dull message it might have is entirely drowned in blood. I started watching this movie and decided to pause it after the captain repeatedly beat a man's nose through his face with a bottle. I decided to check a movie review to see just how much more nose pummeling I'd have to suffer through. I read this stellar review and decided to tough it out. That was a mistake. I'm a 23 year old male who has seen plenty of violent video games and R-rated movies and I was honestly sickened by this movie.

Besides the violence, the movie lacked redeeming qualities. The supposed good faun was an extremely creepy demon. The secondary heroine mutilates a man with a knife. The other 'good' characters were uncompelling and the end was both depressing and disappointing. The movie is ripe material for a couple weeks of sick and twisted nightmares. Just because a movie espouses some kind of morality doesn't make it Christian.

What a well crafted movie. And a stinker; I won't be seeing it again. I consider it false advertising when a film tries to be light and serious at the same time, this is worse; it's not a kids movie, it's not a fantasy; MOST of the movie is a strange and not very subtle pro-Communist political polemic. Brutal and unnecessary violence throughout (I normally like violence in movies - e.g. 'braveheart') but this was just offensive.

I am extremely dissappointed in the endorsement of this movie. I had just began to watch it on DVD and within the first fifteen minutes of the movie the subtitled profanity began. To get to anything positive out of the storyline you have to drag your eyes and mind past the hog pen of profanity (Phils. 4:8). Under cautions in the subset of language and profanity it states 'several subtitled profanities' in actuality there are more than a twenty not including using our saviour's name in vain multiple times. Go ahead and grieve the Holy Spirit and belly up to the pig trough and enjoy (Psalm 101:3).

Don't be deceived:


Worship
The worship of PAM began in Arcadia, and Arcadia was always the principal seat of his worship. Arcadia was a district of mountain people whom other Greeks disdained. Arcadian hunters used to scourge the statue of the god if they had been disappointed in the chase (Theocritus. vii. 107).

Pan inspired sudden fear in lonely places, Panic (panikon deima). Following the Titans' assault on Olympus, Pan claimed credit for the victory of the gods because he had inspired disorder and fear in the attackers resulting in the word 'panic' to describe these emotions. Of course, Pan was later known for his music, capable of arousing inspiration, sexuality, or panic, depending on his intentions. In the Battle of Marathon (490 B.C.), it is said that Pan favored the Athenians and so inspired panic in the hearts of their enemies, the Persians.

Please don't call what is bad good and what is good bad.

I thought the Crosswalk review was right on - I totally agreed with it.
Four of us went to see this movie today - March 4, 2007 -and we all liked it. It was very different from anything I have ever seen. I am not one to be bothered by violence in movies, but I did have to cover my eyes in some of the graphic scenes in this one. However, aside from that, it was a wonderful movie! I loved the fairies!