Had so much potential, failed so dismally

Rating: 5/10 (12 December 2005)

I'm afraid I was quite disappointed. Both of the younger kids annoyed me, and it had some of the most appalling blue-screen style special effects last seen in the early sixties. Not to mention the battle scenes where they opted for computer-game quality graphics... and the dead aslan - could they have made it look more like a stuffed toy?
Combine that with a truly awful score, and a shear lack of creative imagination from the director. It just wasn't a patch on the BBC adaptation I watched as a kid (maybe its just better over ten episodes on a Sunday afternoon?). Or maybe I'm just fifteen years older?
It was all made better, however, by the lines: "Whoa, Horsey" "My name's Philip."
Which frankly, is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time.