Better Than Harry Potter, Worse Than LOTR

Rating: 6/10 (20 May 2006)

I feel this movie gets a bad wrap. I mean, if you read the books you would realize the pacing of the books is so fast and isn't paced evenly throughout the book. I thought Lucy did an amazing job, her scenes with Mr. Tumnus were amazing, Edwin had his moments, but the other too gave very weak performances. To be fair though, they had the least dialogue to work with and what they did have wasn't very good, they weren't well-developed characters and it shows. The two most memorable sequences were the sequences between Lucy and Mr. Tumnus and the sacrifical sequences. If the rest of the film had been treated with such care it would have been a spectacular film, perhaps rivaling the LOTR films. The much touted CGI characters also shine, the voices perfectly match the character and their animation in terms of emotion is great. Unfortunately, the film is marred by pacing issues, some uneven CGI effects, some poor dialogue, and some uneventful action sequences. On the whole, I thought this was a step in the right direction and am looking forward to future films in the series. Definitely a film your kids will enjoy.