Just Magical ! - An Excellent Rendition Of The Novel

Rating: 8/10 (15 April 2006)

I have got to say that this movie is very enjoyable.As a child i had watched the VHS version made in the 80's and the animated feature but without the excellent special effects they are just mediocre compared to this.The battle scene is phenomenal and it is just an excellent rendition of the novel.
We start in London in the height of the blitz which i'm happy to see they added in.The four children are sent to the countryside to stay with a charitable professor in his grand country manor.As the children grow tired of boring games invented by their caring but know it all sister they decide to play hide and seek.In the search for a good hiding place, Lucy(the youngest) stumbles across an ancient wardrobe which she decides will be a perfect hiding place.All is not as it seems as Lucy stumbles to the back of the wardrobe she finds herself in a mysterious snow blanketed forest in the middle of Narnia an enchanted land where it is always winter but never Christmas and it has been that way for almost one hundred years under the terrible rule of the evil white witch.Lucy meets Mr.Tummus a fawn who befriends her, when Lucy returns to the house she is surprised that no time has passed even though she was with Mr.Tummus for many hours.Of course her brothers and sister don't believe her at first until Edmund the dishonest sneaky brother of Lucy stumbles into the land of Narnia and befriends the White witch. When the two other siblings of Lucy, Peter and Susan discover that Lucy is indeed telling the truth they find themselves caught up in a battle for good and evil helping Aslan a wise lion overcome the terrible white witch and bring Narnia back to normal.Although Edmund has other ideas and selfishly chooses to join the white witch unaware of her evil intentions to kill the children and raze the prophecy,the prophecy that says two sons of Adam and two daughters of eve will overthrow the witch and rule Narnia with Aslan.
This is a very entertaining movie with excellent special effects and a sweeping soundtrack.The beavers are excellent characters with hilarious cockney accents,Liam Neeson is excellent in bringing life to the mighty lion as the voice of Aslan and Tilda Swinton is a wonderful White Witch as she brings the harsh and brutal style of her character.This would be almost perfect if it weren't so rushed, great flick though definitely worth a look.
8/10