In a Nutshell...A Good Movie

Rating: 7/10 (12 December 2005)

Disney has proved time and time again that they can make the best children's movies. Over the past couple of years they have began to make adult movies (Pirates of the Caribbean, National Treasure) and now finally they have made a movie that children and adults can both watch together and both truly enjoy watching. The movie is rated PG and was obviouslly meant to be so, it could've easily been made a PG-13, but the books were written for children so the correct decision was made to make the movies for children as well. This movie could easily be "The Lord of the Rings for Kids". Both authors (C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien) were very good friends so it seems fitting that both of them would write two of the greatest stories ever, with one directed toward kids and the other toward adults. Being that this movie was PG, only the main evil character was developed, unlike Lord of the Rings where the extreme "evilness" of the orcs were brought out as well as Sauruman and Sauron's. The battle was done very well with enough action included to make fans of action movies happy, there were very few scenes, if any, where any one character gets completely destroyed, as there were in the epic Lord of the Rings' battles. All in all, the story was done nicely there was not, however, any attempt to explain how the wardrobe could do what it did or how it came into the professor's possession. I am told that the book does explain this. Overall a good movie for people of all ages to enjoy.