Mediocre Performance, Mediocre Storytelling

Rating: Null/10 (22 July 2006)

I got this DVD a short while ago, and I was very disappointed. I realize why they would have made this movie first, because it is the most popular, but I'm afraid that if they tried to make the actual first book in the series, people would turn away from it. Though it was the first book published, it still is not the beginning of the story. The book was almost too magical to be turned into a movie. The acting was a bit mediocre; some of it was downright annoying. They changed scenes too much from the books, and Aslan....Aslan was not nearly as magnificent as he could have been. "Fills the screen, and your heart," one review says, but watching it I only got angry as they turned it farther and farther away from what this story is supposed to be.
I'm trying to stop comparing it to the book, but that's what originally made me fall in love with the whole "children's magic" scene.
And also, everyone could be saved from anything!Any "death" scene was awful! If someone was dead, it would be: die (cry,cry,cry) be saved (laugh) Why laugh?
Overall, I just really thought this movie was one mediocre job done.