Not a bad movie, but not amazing either.

Rating: 6/10 (9 December 2005)

I suppose I allowed myself to build too much anticipation for this film. I believed it would be as good a movie as I had seen all year. Well, it wasn't. That's not to say it was bad, per se, but there was nothing truly excellent in this film save the effects. As an adaptation from a novel, the film is, for the most part, very faithful. There are only a couple of changes made that I had a problem with, and these were tiny and did not distract. But at the end of the day, this film is just average. This review isn't all doom and gloom, there are some nice positives. As I stated earlier, the effects are top notch and I don't ever remember explicitly recognizing them. There is a lot of very funny humor. Tilda Swinton is magnificent as Jadis, the White Witch. And parents should not be afraid of taking smaller children to see it as the film is not scary or bloody to any great degree. Go see it, it will entertain mildly....just don't expect to be blown away.