A Bland Retelling of A Great Book

Rating: 3/10 (16 April 2006)

I found this to be a trite by the numbers re-telling of a book I enjoyed greatly as a kid. Both the 70's cartoon and BBC mini-series captured the feel of the book much better.
The acting was stiff and unconvincing, the continuity was bad, often people were looking in completely the wrong direction while supposedly talking to each other or to the CGI creatures. And there were huge parts of the plot missing that were never explained.
Example: It was never explained that the winter was ending because the humans were in Narnia and it was never explained why the White Witch wanted to keep it winter in Narnia or how she made it that way in the first place.
As a child I imagined Narnia as a much more unique and interesting looking place, this movie managed to make it into a bland un-exceptional landscape that will be easily digestible for those that buy the DVD at Target or Wal-Mart...