mind blowing in all the wrong ways.

Rating: 2/10 (29 December 2005)

okay where to start... i've never read the book, but i think i need to, to get this horrible movie replaced by a better, more convincing, Narnia.
The acting was really below average. It seemed all Peter wanted to do was point his sword at everybody, but as Susan said 'Peter, just because a man in a red coat gives you a sword doesn't make you a hero!. d-mn straight it doesn't. it was extremely obvious that the boy needed more training with a sword or something, because he seemed extremely uncomfortable and weirdly 'proud and wanting-to-seem-cool-' while holding the sword. it just made me want to bang my head against the wall next to me. i really wasn't convinced at all.
and the girl playing Lucy seemed to be the better one at acting, yet all she seemed to do was either smile or cry. after the second time she started crying i was already tired of her weeping.
Susan... well what about her? i didn't get much from her at all. Was she suppose to have a personality? Edmund... well... i got the impression he just wanted to be king, and to hell with his family. such hatred... so after the queen kicks him in a prison, he finally realizes he'll probably get more 'fame' being with his family, or what? The characters really didn't convince me, and where was the development? i really think Edmund must have had an extremely important character development in the book, but it was really lacking in the movie, i was extremely disappointed.
Also, the prophecy about the four human kids. i really don't see what they brought to the table that was so important. they didn't do anything, really... i don't see why they were needed. the lion seemed to be a much better leader than those four. they were unexperienced and just not worth much. they didn't give a reason as to why the four kids could restore Narnia. To me, they didn't do anything, but receive the throne in the end. They didn't really do anything worthy of the throne, the two girls where just crying over the lion's death instead of acting on it, and doing something for 'good' itself. They failed to say what the children did that made them so much more important than any other average person in Narnia.
It really seemed rushed, and i didn't get the feel of Narnia in the movie. Many times it seemed to copy of Lord of the Rings, and that is just not cool. I never read the book, as i have mentioned, but when the Lion, what's-its-name, was being dragged unto the stone thing, many of the 'bad' creatures really seemed to orc-like for my taste. Also at one point, i think it was Peter talking, but it felt like they were trying to make a really hero-ish Aragon moment, and Peter is just not Aragon, it was just extremely cliché and badly done, though i can't remember when it was, which i think i'm quite glad about. i almost really couldn't bare to watch that, or hear it. It seemed to try and fit the Lord of the Rings standards of a truly amazing epic and world, but it didn't come anywhere near it.
The special effects where pretty cool actually. but the fact that Peter lead the army of 'good' after he's only been in Narnia for like what seemed like 3 days or something is extremely unrealistic. and suddenly he can fight the Witch, when did he have sword practise during those days he was there? He couldn't even hold the sword right! what does that tell one about his abilities to fight? Yet he 'fought' better than half the Narnian people! i mean what is that about?
The only thing that had me watching in the end were the really cute cheetahs or what they were and the wolves, just because they were well done. and they get the star, nothing else. i had to go home and watch another movie, just to get this one out of my head for a while. it was so disappointing, i really do not recommend it at all. and i don't understand how it got 7.4 was it? so disappointingly bad.