two fantasy films

I'm not itching to see Harry Potter V. My feeling after III was that if that was a good movie, then the definition of "good", insofar as it applies to Harry Potter films, has been downsized too far for me.

But there are two other recent fantasy, or quasi-fantasy, films that have been getting a lot of attention and praise, and which I thought it would be good to see before Mythcon: Pan's Labyrinth and Bridge to Terabithia. So as they're both now on DVD, I watched them this weekend. Both were pretty good; but both seemed to me to say a lot about the state of fantasy film, and not complimentary things either.

( And there's gonna be spoilers, so behind the cut we go )