disappointing

Rating: 4/10 (13 May 2006)

I have to say that this was a disappointing movie. In complete contrast to the excellent Lord of the Rings series which I thought had nailed the visual imagery, a lot of this Narnia movie seemed off. I feel that the people making this movie must not really have been lovers of the books, were lacking in vital imagination, or both. The movie was soulless. It was not that the individual actors were especially bad (I enjoyed Lucy for example), but the casting and computer-imagery seemed to be seriously off. The Great Witch, the Beavers, most of the Penvesies, the Professor, even Aslan, these were not how this book lover at least (and I think others too) had imagined them. The tempo of the movie and execution of plot was also lacking in the necessary spark to get the viewer involved in the movie. I was looking forward to this movie, but it was a serious disappointment.