Excellent Start

Rating: 8/10 (11 January 2006)

Ignore the critiques who want to dis this movie with their technical complaints...I challenge the technical critiques to show me just one movie that failed at the box office...but could have succeeded if it was more technically adept...Cause it ain't the techniques...it's the story. Why the big movie company's waited so long to bring a story to the big screen that has been a proved winner for decades...who can tell....In the mean time...200+ million dollars and counting in the US alone...I'd say this movie is a hit...and just think, we got six more to go...all of which in my opinion, except The Prince and His Chair is as good a story or better than this one.
Lucy is the best child actress I've ever seen...She just stole the show...She has a sophistication and genuineness I have never seen in a child actress...and I've been watching since Shirley Temple's rerun's in the early 60's.
I had never like Mr. Tumnus' character...but this fellow really brought him alive and gave him a very charming and mischievous personality.
This movie kept my attention and could have been longer to develop the characters more...Susan started to grow on me...but Peter and Edmund didn't capture my heart.
I loved Susan's line, "He's a Beava, he shouldn't be talking." I was disappointed by the witch...Her appearance didn't match her description in The Magician's Nephew. In my opinion, she was neither a woman who the audience would look at and say, "this is the most beautiful woman I've ever seen"...but then was also wicked beyond description.
The great part of this movie is that I don't have to worry about my son watching this flick. The battle scene kept my attention and was most suitable for children and old men like me who don't like the gratuitous blood and gore.
I am looking forward to seeing The Boy And His Horse...And now that Hollywood has discovered CS Lewis, maybe it won't be long before we see a rendition of his Space Trilogy as well. Of course, it will take a excellent writing effort to script those.