Product: The Silver Chair [VHS]
Rating: 4.0
Even Better
The acting keeps on getting better with every movie in this series. What a pity that the next 3 books weren't also done! The child playing Jill is an amazingly good child actress. The man playing Puddleglum is absolutely dismal- which is exactly what you want for that character. The land of the Marshwiggles is depressing and dreary, and excellently depicted. The special effects are now very realistic, with the size of the giants well-created. It helps that there is far less in the realm of effects demanded in this book than in the previous three. Those of the Underworld could use some work in how they look, and it was unfortunate that there was no mention of their true home or what they are really like. In the book, we get more of a sense of them as people who are controlled by the witch. But Aslan is very well done, as a believably incredibly large lion, and there is real depth of emotion in the children and the enchanted prince. Ironic, in what is arguably the least well written of the series, we have the best movie adaptation to date.