Truly sickly

Rating: 4/10 (4 July 2006)

I loved reading the lion the Witch and the Wardrobe as a child and I thoroughly enjoyed the BBC TV series however I have to say that this film was one of the most sickly and insipid things it has ever been my misfortune to see. The CGI graphics for the creatures were years out of date and they just did'nt look real and in parts like when the children are standing on the mountain you can clearly see their standing in front of scenery which has been projected behind them.Indeed unlike the Lord of the Rings the whole thing looks completely studio bound. There's absolutely no sense of dramatic tension. Your never at any point scared of the White Witch (I know its a kids film but there should still be a few harmless fright) and scenes which should be emotional are instead laughable. When Aslan was sacrificed all I could think about was how good he'd look stuffed and sitting in my living room. I also hated the fawn Mister Tumlin. If I was King Peter my first royal decree would be to tell him to wear a shirt and keep away from my little sister on pain of death. All in a all a rotten film and a terrible waste of good source material.