No more than adequate

Rating: 4/10 (15 April 2006)

I suppose I was spoilt after the recent crop of high class fantasy films. This was disappointing. A tale for children told at a child's level. I was hoping Disney might have grown up (temporarily) in order to make this important film but we still had cutsie bickering beavers hopping across the snow making unfunny comments and an Aslan that failed to evoke sympathy. That said, the acting of the humans was good, especially Georgie Henly as Lucy who really seemed to live the fantasy she was experiencing and the performance of Tilda Swinton as the Witch was memorable. However, it needs to toughen up in future films to bring out the extra dimension needed to raise the series from the mundane and to sustain interest if a full series of "The Chronicles" is to be made.