Bitter taste

Rating: 3/10 (4 January 2012)

I was just rereading all my Narnia books, starting from "The Silver Chair", "The Magician's Nephew", "The Horse and His Boy", and finally "the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe". This movie, which I had watched long ago, suddenly make me feel captivated again. The extra scenes do little to distract you from the story, such as war scenes. The actors are also well cast. Some details are observed: like the dead insect in the Wardrobe room. The faun's music is also sad and wonderful all at once. The special effects were rather cool. The music was also excellent. The fox was a weird but welcome addition. However, some parts are honestly weird. Lucy (the Valiant) is hardly the sort of girl to scream when she spotted the faun. Also, the faun's room is not very cozy but scary. When the dwarf attacked Edmund, it is also exaggerated. The argument between Susan and Peter was also abrupt and unreasonable. Also, why were there other frozen beavers? Their escape was supposed to be happy and relaxed, not frightened. Why is Tumnus alive and well to talk with Edmund? And the order of the gifts are wrong, it should be beavers first then Peter then Susan then Lucy. The Beavers got nothing, and the children got no feast ): The part where the wolves took Beaver hostage and caused Peter to act cowardly is retarded, Peter IS a hero, that's why he's High King, and not just because he's oldest. Stop dumbing the kids down! Edmund's journey was also unseen, and that's sad because that is where Edmund is redeemed. All in all, it started out well but ended like crap so we're left with a pretty horrible view of it.