boring and uninspired

Rating: 4/10 (26 December 2005)

Look. I am going to keep this short and sour. I was hugely disappointed.
I was also read the books as a child and continued to love the C S Lewis series throughout my life as an adult.
Why with all this focus on 'Big Budget' - which seems to be more and more the basis on which 'blockbuster' films market themselves - do we lose so much of the original novel material, our favourite parts, which mean so much to us?. These films lose their sentimentality (Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket) and we are rushed through a 2 1/2 hour production with no substance and little heart, Seeing this novel brought to life on the screen could have been brilliant. Instead I am left with a bitter taste of disappointment and regret that I forked out $14 to go see it on it's opening day.
The worst thing was, I wasn't expecting much (as I wasn't with Goblet of Fire) and walking out of the cinema, I couldn't think of one thing other than 'well, they did great animation work with Aslan'.
BAH!