Technically perfect, the soul is missing

Rating: 4/10 (20 January 2006)

Yes, it is quite perfect from a technical point of view. The animations are very well done, especially the beavers faces have inspired a great deal of respect to the makers of this movie. Also the voices of the animated actors are very well chosen and fit the faces like a glove.
But the story... I will now write spoilers, so maybe you shouldn't' continue to read.
Maybe I am just too stupid for this one. I love adventure movies where the hero gets into trouble or is helped out of it by pure and utter chance, this so unlike that in normal life the hero would have died long ago. I really mean chance, not some special skill the hero had or some gadget (like in most Bond-movies). But in this movie, it is often pure chance that ensures the heroes survival. Luck at its best. Okay, that fits the quite hectic change of camera positions, or unexplained changes of scene, apparently quite a bad attempt at portraying simultaneously happening scenes.
I also don't get some of the plot, the white witch (nicely played by Tilda Swinton) is the overpowerful master of narnia, some children appear, they are told that they would help to defeat her. One of them she tried to corrupt, but at his first visit she reveals her plan, losing all control over the child, instead of drawing him closer to her, although he would have been the perfect solution to her plan, since there had to be FOUR of them, as will be stressed enough later on in the story.
When they arrived, it was deep winter, since the white witch controlled the land. These children at first do nothing of any significance, and they are told that Aslan will try to defeat Her Majesty. So... up until the final battle, she is the ruler of Narnia, she is the reason for winter... But, also she hasn't suffered the smallest blow yet, nobody had stood up to her, everybody is just fleeing, suddenly the winter is over and spring breaks out. So they only had to arrive... Strange, especially when you look at the end of The Battle, aslan had to rescue the children and defeat the white witch; he is the only one she is afraid of, not the children or the hordes of enemies, she has enough soldiers herself. So, the children were useless, all in all, more a hindrance. I don't get it, maybe the original from 1988 was more easy to follow.