A steady slope downhill from the beginning

Rating: 2/10 (26 December 2005)

The movie is a LotR wannabe Take a classic story, then remove the majority of the dialog, the character development, and hype it up with a lot of slow motion battle scenes and well there it is. The battle scenes were brutal. To make it suitable for the 5- age category the centaur who was quite obviously killed to protect Peter (which i can't remember from the books but seems like a good idea) magically comes back to life in time for the coronation. Considering the MASSIVE budget some scenes like the battle scene or the obviously fake bombers at the beginning could have been done up and the scenery seriously needed an improvement. I have the BBC version on VHS and though that film is embarrassing the graphics are so bad it is a lot better story-wise. I loved the Narnia books when i was younger and the whole Christian symbolism etc. The movie ignores most of that and plunges right into action scenes to keep younger children amused while if this movie was made a bit more violent it would be 13+ and there would be more story. Bad, bad movie and one to miss