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Movie Review: The Lion, The Witch And That Dratted Wardrobe
Imagine this. You are sitting in a freezing cinema at 11.45pm on a Friday night with 2 kids in their pajamas. The event is the (finally) movie debut of The Chronicle’s Of Narnia. I was elated. The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe was a book that I had read and reread many many times between the ages of 7 and 28.
Let me tell you. Prepare to be disappointed. The movie pretty much veers off from the book in the beginning, then stays faithful to it in the middle and goes totally off course again at the end, especially for the battle sequences (CS Lewis never was one for blood and gore).
The children casted for the roles of Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy were bad choices. They fail to develop their chars or make the audience feel for them. At one point, I was rooting for Edmund to die a slow and horrible death to end my boredom. Also disappointing was Aslan, who did not come across as majestic or awesome in anyway. In fact, all of the CGI generated animals in this movie were boring, unrealistic and unremarkable - I had more fun watching ‘The Lion King’.
Sadly, the only chars I found interesting were Mr Tumnus the faun, who outshone his human co-stars and The White Queen, Jardis (played by Twilda Swinton) who was resplendant and imperial.
The director Andrew Adamson tries too hard to make this into another Lord Of The Rings. This is particularly evident in the battle sequences. Unfortunately this is a CS Lewis story for children, and Andrew Adamson is no Peter Jackson. So it falls flat on its face.
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Trivia: One of the main centaurs looks like the drummer of UnXpected.
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