Worth a yawn

Rating: 5/10 (25 January 2006)

General thoughts were that it was poor. The casting was terrible, at one point Georgie Henley was supposed to be upset and crying and she looked like she was laughing. I know she's a child actor but take Dakota Fanning for example who CAN actually act! Effects at times were brilliant, but in others absolutely poor (eg. the mountains that shook when there were closeups of characters because of bad green-screening). In terms of story telling it was average, i often thought that at moments the tension could have been heightened by having better directing. It did not seem to me to have the fantasy element that it deserved, it just 'seemed like another film' and not as mythological or as grand as the book portrays. Worth a rent when it comes out on DVD, but halfway through you may decide to fast forward as it gets a little B-O-R-I-N-G. The battle scene its good, but you soon realise that the White Witches army must be pretty terrible as both Edmund and Peter half-heartedly kill a few soldiers which seem to stand there and wait for the sword to tap them dead. THIS FILM COULD HAVE BEEN DONE SO MUCH BETTER!