Perfection

Rating: 9/10 (12 December 2005)

It's been about 40 years since i read the books. They were among my favorites ever and while reading them, my visual mind made up its own movie. So i was uncertain about going to see this movie. But it's perfect. It's all the images i saw in my head and more. It's brilliant. I'm a very critical person about entertainment and literature. But i'm hard pressed to come up with one thing i didn't like about this movie. Maybe the choice of adult actors in the first sequences, but they weren't very much part of the story. The battle scene at the beginning was really well done, better than most depictions of England during the war. At first i thought the witch wasn't working but, wow, she really got better. The centaurs are the best Hollywood's come up with yet. Completely believable. As are the fawns. Great. But the most important part, the one i was most worried about, was the lion. And he was perfect. Wonderful. Awesome. This movie should win all the prizes.