children's fantasy

Rating: 7/10 (12 December 2005)

A solid movie for kids. I have not read the books but I figure from the length of the movie that it stayed somewhat true to the book.
I was impressed with the casting of the Ice Queen. The rest of the casting didn't matter to much to me. Everybody else did a descent job of acting. The scenes and the special effects were great.
Some of the fighting scenes near the end were good. There could have been more fighting, You show 100,000 soldiers before the battle but there is only 10 minutes of fighting?
Some points of the film annoyed me. A beaver that is named mr. Beaver (I might change my name to mr. human). The death of the lion: Girls are crying over a creature who they had just met and he comes back to life. I know the Christian elements of the story but the sacrifice itself and left dead would have been more effective to the story (I thought the whole table thing was a bit lame). The rescue of the youngest boy took thirty seconds. The end of the story annoyed me too.
Every time I try to complain about something about the story I just think that the story is for children 10 and under. The above complaints are more personal complaints. If I was 10 I probably wouldn't have these complaints.