Lots of icing but no cake

Rating: 6/10 (21 January 2006)

...First of all, my apologies for my English...
Wow, what a great looking movie... It "looked" just like the book, but that's all. There's no depth in the characters, Aslan is wonderfully done but lacks any mystic aura. The first hour had to me the right tone and I could feel the amazement of the children about Narnia...but then it went downhill. There were no scenes to justify the emotional bond between the kids and Aslan, not even between Aslan and Narnia even. My English is to poor to really clearly write down what I mean but me it was a lot of icing, but no cake, pity...it could have been so much more.
The Special Effects were wonderful, except some keying shots that were below high budget standards and those scenes ripped you away from Narnia right into a blue screen studio, shame, shame..
A 9 for the effects minus 3 for the way the story was portrait = 6