Could have been better

Rating: 5/10 (5 January 2006)

I was very excited when I saw the trailer for Narnia, mainly cause this is one of my favorite books and it looked like it was very well done. The first half of the movie or where they were at the proffesor's house was according to the book and the actors they chose for the kids were very good all of them believable, Lucy was the innocent, Edmund was the bully, Susan was the sensible one and last but not at all least was Peter the heroic one. However Liam Neeson was not believable as Aslan and I don't understand why they didn't get somebody like Anthony Hopskins to talk for him. Jadis was not believable as the charming evil witch in the beginning and I feel that they didn't give her a good enough introduction. The biggest mistake were the relationships. Peter and Edmund didn't seem to have as much hatred towards each other as in the books, and there was way too much hugging and crying, in fact I felt like they were concentrating more on making this a blockbuster then making this a good movie. There was no playfulness in Aslan as there is in the book and they didn't make Aslan as respectable and fun as they could have, again I felt like he didn't get a decent introduction and therefore when the whitch killed him I wasn't sad at all. The part where the girls were crying over his death was long and I got sick of it. Jadis looked ridiculous in those clothes which seem to be cut from an 80's magazine. I definitely think that they should have spent more time on the script and less time on making this a Hollywood movie, I don't know if it is the producer or the directors or even just because this was a Disney film. So to sum up this movie left me lukewarm like annegirl8 said and this could have been a much better movie if they wouldn't have made it so lame. Kids movie not for the adult fans.