Does not compare to Lord Of the Rings or Harry Potter

Rating: Null/10 (25 December 2005)

Andrew Adamson, the director (Shrek) should stick to animated films. The Chronicles of Narnia is a very limp film in his hands. The first hour of the film crawls at a snail's pace. The four children have to carry the film but they aren't interesting enough to do it. One plot point of the book is that the younger boy, Edmund, becomes bound to the White Witch and has to redeem himself in the end, but in this film all he does is accept some Turkish delight (candy) from the witch. Big deal. I thought the four kids were very unappealing.
The second part of the film is a battle after we meet Aslan, the lion, voiced by Liam Neeson who sounds exactly like Liam Neeson and to my ears I could never get past that.
It's fair to compare this film to other movies in the genre, namely the Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter films. Narnia lacks the magical touches of Potter and the epic vision of LOTR.