Slow, with three of the four children desperately needing acting lessons!!!

Rating: 5/10 (10 December 2005)

I like to suspend reality as much as the next person, and as a child my imagination ran wild with sword fights and distant lands. The concept of Narnia is fantastic. However, three of the four children in the movie were so unconvincing as to make me want to leave the movie less than an hour in. The movie did not improve from there.
Maybe I no longer fit the demographic for this movie but quite honestly, I couldn't wait to get out of the theatre. That coming from a guy who sat spellbound by The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and then bought the even LONGER extended DVD for each movie. In fact, the problem might be that the parallels between Narnia and LOTR lead to comparisons, with Narnia placing a distant second IMHO.