The Chronicles of Narnia - (3-Disc Set) - (The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe/Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader/The Silver Chair)
The Chronicles of Narnia, a seven-volume, Bible-based children's fantasy  series written in the 1950s by British theologian C.S. Lewis, draws young  readers into the magical, dangerous land of Narnia and plunges them into the  age-old battle of good and evil. Lewis envisioned these stories as pictures  before he wrote them, so it seems only proper that the books would eventually  make it to the small screen. In the late 1980s and early '90s, three adventures  in this series--The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe(169 minutes),Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader(168 minutes), andThe Silver Chair(168 minutes)--were faithfully adapted into a TV series  by the BBC and Home Vision Entertainment, then edited to feature-length  productions. All three of these discs (nine hours of viewing!) are included in  this boxed set of DVDs, along with interactive trivia games and more.Youngsters expecting special effects like those found inThe Lord of the  RingsorHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stonemay miss the subtler  charms of these sweet but rather homespun productions, with humans dressed as  woodland creatures and patched-in animation. And kids expecting fast-paced  action adventures may snooze after a few hours of these relatively slow-moving  scripts. But those who want a refresher course in all things Narnia will be  thrilled to see these well-loved fantasies come to life in gorgeous snowy  landscapes--the good lion Aslan (played by a large, talking stuffed animal), the  horrible White Witch (performed with deliciously over-the-top zeal by actress  Barbara Kellerman), the four siblings, fauns, dwarves, deadly sea monsters, and  all.--Karin Snelson