An entrancing journey into a surprisingly child friendly, medieval world that all ages can pull enjoyment from

Rating: 8/10 (19 April 2020)

An entrancing journey into a surprisingly child friendly, medieval world that all ages can pull enjoyment from. Everything oozed with profoundness which crafted characters and a world that attained existent beyond a call to the plot. Acting from the four main stars felt immensely forced yet their characters were enthralling and each achieved contrasting personalities. Contrarily, although amazingly acted by Tilda Swinton whom drove fear and intimidation into viewers from every line that added to her unprecicatablness; her character was cliche, ticking all boxes of a typical villain, tremendously ambitious in their goal, yet exceedingly lacklustre in effort to attain said goal. Her rival, Aslan, despite the beautiful voice acting of Liam Neeson, wasn't much different. While being opposite in disposition, he was untouchable, deriving him of any danger. However, this could be dismissed due to the Christian aspect the movie presents with Aslan being God and The Witch being Satan, the classic hero and villain that every protagonist and antagonist was first based off of. The CGI wasn't astounding but was impressive and didn't derive from the movie. In spite of this, green screen scenes at times felt flat and offered a separation between characters and the world which was hard to dismiss. Nevertheless, this didn't stop Narnia from feeling vast and enchanting and in pair with Harry Gregson-Williams grand score, this magical world couldn't have been portrayed better. In regards to how this movie holds together from a film-making stance, the script, direction and theme were marvelous, however colour grading, lighting and cinematography were mediocre Overall, a very entertaining and meaningful movie if minor plot holes are dismissed.