Lord of the Rings for Kids and not as entertaining.

Rating: 3/10 (9 December 2005)

I saw this at a midnight showing and I couldn't stop checking my watch every 20 or 30 minutes.
***Some SPOILERS present*** (not that there's really any surprises to spoil) While Tilda Swinton is as awesome as ever as the White Witch, everyone else is as dull as the clichéd storyline and special effects. Nothing about this film was believable. Thing such as Peter being able to fight off the witch, who obviously knows what she's doing, with a sword only with a couple of days of sword training, Santa popping out of nowhere to give the children gifts which happen to solve all their problems, everyone that died coming back to life at the end just by the Lion breathing on them, things like this caused my eyes to roll numerous times. Of course the battle scenes, nothing is shown, just some off screen animal cries and jagged camera-work that makes you care even less what is happening.
By the end, I was not caring anything about any of the characters in this film and was only truly enjoying the scenes where the White Witch was present. This is yet another franchise that will probably make tons at the box office, but mostly due to the religious masses who will go to see the Aslan "Jesus" figure and the other numerous biblical undertones.
All in all, a forgettable, strictly by the numbers, bland film and I can only hope that they don't make films from the other books in the series.