Narnia good but not great

Rating: 7/10 (29 June 2006)

I will try to be succinct. The Chronicles of Narnia as stories are good, especially for younger viewers/readers who are more sensitive to violence. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe is a good watch, if you can get through the very slow beginning. It should be noted that those of you who have seen the Lord Of The Rings trilogy and loved them, will not necessarily like the Narnia stories. The Narnia stories as a whole are more fantastical and wholesome whereas the LOTR stories are more dark and gruesome. It should also be noted that the Narnia stories rely heavily on biblical and Christian themes, which may be a turn off to some viewers. If you choose to watch this movie really commit yourself because it is easy to lose interest during the set-up of the story. I was reading all of these books as a child and I have seen every version of this story both made for TV as well as the animated version and I still began to doubt myself half-way through. I guess the best way to end this critique is that the adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkein's books (LOTR) won Oscars, The Narnia stories will not.
Just an extra sidebar for my fellow ranters. The tigers that are seen fighting alongside the Witch are depicted as just so-so enemies when in fact large tigers are on average, one to two hundred pounds larger than the largest lions. I know that Aslan is the savior of the story but this is not portraying an accurate depiction of the hierarchy of the great cats. Lions are not the kings of the jungle. Newsflash, Lions do not even live in the jungle, they live in the grasslands. Tigers live in jungles and are larger and stronger than lions. Just for arguments sake, the largest wild tiger ever documented weighed 858 lbs. Te largest wild lion ever documented weighed 688 lbs.