Heartbroken!

Rating: 2/10 (20 August 2007)

I'm sorry everyone but I HATE this movie. The comments all seem to be positive. Does no one else see things the way I do? The first trailer I saw had me so excited that maybe they'd done gorgeous justice to my favourite books of all time.
Not so.
Yes it has lavish sets/costumes/props/pixels/unnecessary action... but it sure as hell cheaps out like any blockbuster does in telling the story.
Disney has been making me angry since I was a kid watching 'The Little Mermaid' and knowing she should turn into sea foam at the end. This is no different. It felt like this movie had been made to sell a video game. What's with the rushing across a breaking up river? What's with the battle scenes and DIALOG!? almost jokingly copied straight out of Lord of the Rings? This story is not a complicated mess of meanderings and secret meetings with underground (no pun intended) animals. This wasn't Narnia, it's a modern mockery. It is a movie for it's time when audiences want bigger and better CGI, millions of orcs/centaurs/whatevers fighting each other in clean digital fashion. DOES NO ONE HAVE IMAGINATION ANYMORE TO SEE THINGS FOR THEMSELVES? That was part of the point to the story in the first place. The books inspired my imagination like nothing else ever did. This movie leaves NOTHING to the imagination. Like so many movies these days, it hands everything out on a silver platter. Sometimes I yearn for the days of 2-d animation and creativity in solving problems without computers. Yet, 'Pan's Labyrinth' used CGI without overdoing it. Maybe this is what you get with the director of 'Shrek' at the helm. I have very little hope for 'Prince Caspian' being any better.
I'll just stick to my books and the badly animated, yet so much more entertaining, 1979 cartoon version that actually has some real feeling. -From a girl who used to look in everyone's closets.