Wanted to be impressed. Wasn't.

Rating: 4/10 (22 August 2006)

Classic literature and CGI technology don't always mix. They did an admirable job of it but at the same time it became a distraction. C.S Lewis had developed such rich characters replete with conflict and emotional frailty. The actors, particularly Peter and Edmund, were horrendous. I thought their performances were so wooden and two dimensional I thought maybe they were CGI. Peter was too wimpy, Edmund failed to broadcast the internal complexity of his Judas nature, the girls I thought, were fantastic. I didn't hate the movie, but I did not get the veneration surrounding it either. It could have been much more were it not for, yet again, the focus on computer generated spectacle winning out over simply telling the story. I wouldn't say don't see it, but keep your expectations in check.