The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
How many movie reviews for this film are going to start exactly like mine; "I loved the Narnia books as a child?"
I've been waiting a few months for the film to be released because I loved the Narnia books as a child. I tried to re-read them a year or so ago, but my attention span is so short now, something shiny must have caught my eye, and I didn't get far.
The movie was good. I liked it. The talking animals were excellent. So much better than I expected them to be. For some reason, having seen too much of the BBC version from a few years ago, I was expecting 6 foot tall beavers, but the short beaver sized beavers were perfect.
Aslan, voiced by Liam Neeson was excellently done. The children were perfectly cast.
I would have liked to see more on the melting of the snow and the return of spring. One scene I remember vividly from the animated was the scene with Edmund and the dwarf pulling the sleigh across the grass as the snow melted out from under it.
Minor quibbles aside, it's the best adaptation of the book I've seen. I'm looking forward to Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader if they make those films too.
4 out 5 rating units.
I've been waiting a few months for the film to be released because I loved the Narnia books as a child. I tried to re-read them a year or so ago, but my attention span is so short now, something shiny must have caught my eye, and I didn't get far.
The movie was good. I liked it. The talking animals were excellent. So much better than I expected them to be. For some reason, having seen too much of the BBC version from a few years ago, I was expecting 6 foot tall beavers, but the short beaver sized beavers were perfect.
Aslan, voiced by Liam Neeson was excellently done. The children were perfectly cast.
I would have liked to see more on the melting of the snow and the return of spring. One scene I remember vividly from the animated was the scene with Edmund and the dwarf pulling the sleigh across the grass as the snow melted out from under it.
Minor quibbles aside, it's the best adaptation of the book I've seen. I'm looking forward to Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader if they make those films too.
4 out 5 rating units.
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3 Comments:
At 4:10 PM, infamy said…
It certainly looks lovely - I'll probably see it. I re-read the books back when we had the "Other people writing Narnia books" rants. I miss those rants.
At 5:09 PM, McCaesar said…
You're trying to bait me into repeating my rant on those people who wrote other Narnia books.
Well, my anger is sated because they were apparently failures as I never saw anything about them again.
I count it as a moral victory for me.
At 8:05 PM, infamy said…
No baiting was intended. However, I do believe that you've made proper use of the "Moral Vistory" clause. Congratulations.
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