Beautiful but useless

Rating: 4/10 (9 April 2006)

I suppose this is what passes for epics these days. Perhaps I've grown too old and too cynical, but, I was never caught up by all the dramatic monologues that plague this film. Visually overwhelming just doesn't cut for me anymore. The story was common. Common as dirt. From the start you knew what was going to happen and how. Lucy cries when someone died yet you just wanted to pick her up and shake her for crying about 'death'. It seemed obvious to everyone that death in Narnia is not permanent and therefore not need be mourned. I kept waiting for the end.
This movie is not for anyone under 12 and not for anyone over 40. I hope others find it interesting.
S.
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