Mediocre, cheesy, boring and uncreative

Rating: 3/10 (4 January 2006)

What is this hype all about?! I read reviews here and went to see it with great expectations as fantasy movies are my favorite. What a disappointment! I never read the book but what I saw in the movie is bad, very bad. It feels like you meld abandoned scenes from Lord Of The Rings and Harry Potter with weak story, bad direction and completely uncreative fantasy world. Everything there was just recycle from many genre classics and even worse from computer games and intros - some scenes are direct copy from Warcraft III intro! There is also a Matrix scene, a lot of LOTR stuff and so on. Not a single new and interesting point in this movie. It looks to me as "one more generic fantasy" created not by human, but by very limited CSG - Computer Screenplay Generator. The voices of animals are bad (except for the beaver), and especially The Lion.
OK, it's not a complete waste - it's probably a very good movie for 7-10 year old kids, and CG is correct (but nothing special). Also, I guess that those who read the book may see it differently, but from my point of view it's awful. To compare this to LOTR is like to compare a week old BigMac with a finest dinner in a royal restaurant. Consume this movie only if you are starving. Overall 3/10 is more than enough.