One war for another...

Rating: 8/10 (11 December 2005)

You can sum up this movie as children escaping one war only to find themselves in another and then striving to do their duty in the face of evil hordes who prefer winter to warmth.
As a movie it has its flaws - not least is a little too much chasing and event-skipping plus a feeling some of it was shot in a studio - but overall it is a delight mostly because of talking beavers, Tilda Swinton, Tumnus the faun and little Lucy Pevensie.
Don't worry too much about allegations of Christian undercurrents: the symbolism is there for those who want to see it but for anyone else, it's a good old unlikely-heroes-fighting-for-good epic.