I want to go to Narnia

Rating: 8/10 (19 December 2005)

I read Harry Potter Goblet of Fire and found the movie rendition to be severely lacking in detail. I read Chronicles of Narnia and felt the director did an excellent job capturing all the important points of the movie.
I took my 11 and 14 year old kids to see this movie yesterday and they, like me, loved the movie immensely. I would probably hesitate taking any child younger than 10 because some of the battle scenes are quite intense; that having been said, I don't recall seeing any blood or anything like that so it wasn't as bad as it could have been.
The set locations were breath-taking and really captured the magic of a place like Narnia. The animation/computer special effects were for the most part excellent, especially the animals. There is one particular scene where the main characters stand with a vast scene behind them and it's quite obvious they're standing in front of a blue wall and the image was imposed afterward. Other than that though, brilliant.
For kid actors, these guys did much better than the Harry Potter crew did their first time out; they were a lot more convincing in my opinion.
Enjoy!