Satisfying

Rating: 8/10 (16 December 2005)

After seeing this movie I talked about it with my elementary school age children. We all agreed that the movie had everything that we had envisioned in our head while reading the first book of the Narnia series. Aslan was magnificent, Lucy was adorable, the Witch was frighteningly evil, the scene at the Stone Table was heartbreaking. I'm a grown man who has read this book seven or eight times, twice aloud to my children, and I'm not embarrassed to admit that my eyes welled with tears. I loved the scenes with the professor. I do think that more time should have been spent showing Edmund's temptation and the effect that the Turkish delight has on him. He seems to cave in to the Witch's promises too easily. His siblings at this point in the story have done nothing except the most normal sort of bickering that any brothers or sisters would have done, but Edmund readily supplies the Witch with information that severely harms the forces of good. This is a very good movie, I would recommend it to anyone.