An excellent film!

Rating: 10/10 (12 December 2005)

This was great. Jumping off the successes of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the continuing Harry Potter series, it was inevitable that someone was going to get around to greenlighting C.S. Lewis' well-known collection of Narnia stories. It's fantastical tales of a magical land beset by the forces of evil and the struggles of the righteous have been popular reading for over 50 years; beloved by children and revered by Christian analysts for its parallels to another well-read collection of stories. I always wanted to read the books, buying nearly all of them at my grade school's annual book fair before the Pick-a-Path titles occupied my attention. I'm sure at that age I would have been as enraptured as the next child. My whimsy for childhood adventures still resides within and, admittedly, for a good portion of the film version I was along for the journey with eyes (mostly) open enjoying the exploits of Narnia the way most enact their hobbies  as passable time-killers. But the longer it went on, the less it satisfied my sense of wonder and eventually took on the more overt metaphors of one of my ongoing classes at Queen of the Rosary. Hint: It wasn't English or Reading.