Pan's Labyrinth

I don't necessarily have a favorite director, but every Guillermo Del Toro movie I've seen, I have been absolutely been amazed by. Pan's Labyrinth was my introduction to Guillermo Del Toro; I saw it in my 11th grade Spanish 4 class and at first, it freaked me the hell out. I then saw Mama and realized Guillermo Del Toro was involved (executive producer) and they kind of had the same sort of ending (come to think of it every Guillermo Del Toro has sort of the same ending). I've recently re-watched Pan's Labyrinth and I think that because I wasn't in a class being forced to watch it, I enjoyed it more, even though a lot of the parts still did/does still freak me out.

Instructions Not Included

For some reason this movie has a 56% on Rotten Tomatoes, which makes it "rotten". Instructions not Included is the cutest, funniest, most amusing father/daughter film I've seen. It certainly isn't a family film in cases where children would be watching it, but I watched this with my mom and we both really liked it. It certainly isn't award winning, but it provides for some decent plot twists and an unapologetic tearjerker ending, which some might call cheap, but I thought it was really smart. Yes, most of the movie is a goofy and cute documentation of how a father would do anything for his daughter, and the whole movie is sort of misleading about what the reveal will be at the end, but the last 30 minutes, I would say, has the most abrupt change in tone from the rest of the movie, and if you have any heart at all, you will cry.