Slow to start, boring in the middle

Rating: 2/10 (10 March 2007)

Slow to start, boring in the middle, painful to end.
Big news everyone! CS Lewis was a friend of Tolkien and this film shows clearly that friendship does not affect writing skills for one, that marketing does not trick everybody in seeing a film or buying merchandise, and that when you want to express your religious opinions too strongly it does not make good fiction books.
The books have the same flaw as the film: story is boring. Have you seen the film? No? Don't and be sure you don't miss much.
Special effects are million dollar apiece, same quality in fact as LOTR, the cast did their best, really, they did, the story was simply too symbolic to be interesting any more, like a joke they explain to you is no longer funny.
CS Lewis expressed his renewed religious feelings in a fervent way and wrote plain uninteresting books, whose symbols are too close to propaganda to be attracting anymore. Adapting them to the cinema could only lead to a result where every moment is lasting too long.