Good Movie, but don't watch if you don't like fantasy!

Rating: 8/10 (7 December 2005)

Hi,
I'm from Germany and I just saw "The Chronicles of Narnia-The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe" and I was impressed by the movie. The movie is nearly a complete adaption of the book written by C.S. Lewis in the Fifties of the last century. Although, I have to mention that there are some elements of the story which I personally missed but maybe it is because I saw "Narnia" from an adult perspective. For example the criticism of using drugs. However, the movie was impressive but if you do not like speaking beavers and several other animals you know of the world of fantasy like a lion, which is the king of the world of Narnia you won't get satisfied with the movie. Furthermore it is noteworthy that it was written for children this is why the story isn't of that complexity compared to the one of the "Lord of the Rings". Well, the story begins in WW-II and four children are being evacuated from the city to the countryside of the Kingdom of England, to prevent that the nation will have to face a lack of procreation after the war. The children get to the house of an old professor by train. At first sight it seemed to them like a boring place and they don't know what to do there but as the youngest of them finds a mysterious wardrobe as a hiding place in which she finds another world, called Narnia. Boredom is over and the adventures begins. It is an adventure, on the one hand containing betrayal and evil but on the other hand love and the good. The destination of the four children is to to break the spell of an 100 year lasting winter in Narnia spoken by the evil white which.If they are able to confirm their dangerous quest or fail I won't tell...
In conclusion I want to say, why I didn't gave the movie 10 out of 10. To my mind Andrew Adamson played a "bit" to much with bytes! You'll sometimes get the feeling that they have a photographic wallpaper put behind the scene declared as a background. In my opinion nowadays technology of SFX is that advanced, as we saw in the lord of the rings that one is able to make it look more realistic than it was in this movie. For example the beavers would perfectly fit into ice age 2 but not into Narnia. Another important thing to mention is that it wasn't such a bad movie but people who aren't interested in the world of fantasy shouldn't spent their hard earned money for Narnia because I aren't willing to listen to your cant that the movie sucked. Most of those people should read the book before watching the movie to get another perspective to it!
After all it is not easy to make a quick judgment. There are only little aspects being mentioned and I have to tell so much more...
And finally don't forget that Narnia is not Middle earth!