Enjoyable but not worth the hype

Rating: 6/10 (10 December 2005)

After hearing my friends rave about this movie, i had to watch it for myself. Sadly though... the movie was reasonably enjoyable, but some what disappointing in my opinion. Firstly, the beginning of the film was far to lengthy and boring. How the kids happen to stumble upon the wardrobe is tedious to say the least. Over elaboration of the stupid games played, and how they all FINALLY end up in the closet can really bore people. Thankfully, the movie picks up pace and the cute animals are humorous and realistic. However, my major qualm about the film is it fails to remain sensible or logical in its own right. Even though The Matrix and The LOTR were far fetched stories, the plot was logical and believable.... On the other hand, this story is just basically random. The 4 "heros" actually didn't do much in the entire story. It was Aslan who gathered the troops, it was aslan who killed the ice queen, and all they were, were props! The girl only shot ONE arrow in the battle... Them being called kings and queens really doesn't make sense. Neo could do anything, frodo the ring bearer.... but these 4... nothing! Well, all was not lost considering that the final battle was rather enjoyable but still abit short. LOTR like CG for the final battle. One thing that i found astounding was that Aslan could just resurrected just because the ice queen didn't read the fine print..... overall, moderately enjoyable, but somewhat lacking in many ways.....