Think twice-the never ending story... - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Reviews

...This movie made it onto my top 5 list of worst movies during the course of my life (35 years). The movie was truly awful. No let me rephrase that; it sucked. It sucked harder than my vacuum cleaner, or my dog when she is looking for food, or a fish without water sucking for its last breath. When I was in the movie theatre I wished I was that fish without water; my sister and I were at each others throats trying to bring the life back into one another. Now for the few positives: this movie makes you think. You can't ever tell whether the actors are crying or laughing. You never know whether or not they are scared or confused, or just constipated. You can really relate with the characters because while watching the movie I could not decide if I was scared or confused. There were many mixed emotions; I was juggling between depression, agony, and towards the end euphoria. There was an applaud once the movie ended and we knew there was someone else sharing our (my sister and I) joy that the movie had finally ended, and we could move one with our lives. Another thing that was positive during the movie was you didn't feel rushed to go anywhere; you could take your time--2 and 1/2 hrs of my life, which I can never reclaim. The movie definitely closed in on details--minor details, even pointless ones. Apparently the director and producers of this film had a vision that was SLOWLY developing--a vision which they missed completely. Right out of the ball park. Sad, but true. The moral of this is, THINK TWICE (unless you would like to experience what it feels like to be deprived of action and joy).

For children - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Reviews

This movie isn't so bad if you keep in context that this movie should of been created for children. C.S Lewis's orginal intent was to symbolize Jesus's death/resurrection to his grandchildren by using characters his grandchildren could understand. The story was never meant for anyone older than the age of ten.(my opinion) However, Disney and the media protrayed this movie as a must see for everyone. Storyline - Gave the story a B, because the director supposedly took the story line out of the book. Story line is predictable, no novel plot. Still kind of confused as to why this book was famous in the first place... Story line is so unorginal, can't imagine reading this book unless I was a child. There are so many better fantasy books that actually stretch the imagination. I don't see what makes the four human children special in terms of their ability to save Narnia? They seemed pretty useless to me. And why the heck did santa clause show up? Acting - Gave the acting a F, Hated the actors in this movie - no acting abilities whatsoever. Who are these actors? I have never seen them in another film before. Peter - passable, but nothing special Edmund - Really annoying, reminded me of a crying coward Older sister - Didn't know her name, but wow what a complainer/blamer. She was supposedly smart? All she seemed to do was to critize the other characters during the decision making process, without coming up with an alternative solution, and then after - if something went wrong - started yelling at the other characters. I could not stand her at all. I feel sorry for whichever of C.S Lewis's grandchildren she symbolizes. She couldn't act whatsoever, and she was mad busted. Lucy - She was alright Direction - not much to say. Visuals - pretty good, LOTResque. Don't watch this movie unless you are a child, and it is a pretty lame children's movie at that. Can't believe I "bought" into the hype. Waste of time and money.

A great disappointment - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Reviews

This movie was not the classic, memorable film that it was trying to be. It was flawed in too many ways to live up to the novel by C.S. Lewis. The acting in it was not so great (were the children picked because they looked slightly similar?), and coupled with the most painfully obvious and silly lines, the movie was already ruined. The visuals varied from scene to scene. The battle scene was fantastic, despite being too short. There were, as well, a few beautiful vistas in the movie that had some great work done into them. And yet, there were scenes where the green screen behind our characters was so horribly obvious that it was all i could stare at during the whole of those scenes. Not the funniest movie either, with its dry comedy throughout random parts of it. Probably more funny, but not meant to be, was the fact several wild pigs were going to war against odd-looking half-sized high-pitched chittering dwarfs. It was overly dramatic in nearly every scene as well, which grew very tiresome. The storyline was just about the one thing that could be even considered excellent in the movie, and it just so happens to be the one thing the movie stole (and could steal) from another source. Sadly, you might have to be eating lunch out of a Spiderman lunchbox and watching Saturday morning cartoons at 6 to enjoy this movie.

Chronic yawnia - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Reviews

Having never read the books, I went in with an indifferent view hoping to see a great story. Instead I walked out feeling it was a bland juvenile concept. Hollywood had obviously rushed to pump out another Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings formula type movie for the Holidays. I was slightly entertained and this is far from a franchise movie classic. In the beginning, we are taken to an air raid in England. After a close call, the mother decides it is not safe for the children to stay and ships them off to live with the nutty but rarely seen professor in his mansion which happens to be run by a mean old lady. The movie quickly moves you along through this. Whether this is a plus or not as it helps speed the movie along little character development takes place - obviously to make room for the more interesting visuals later in the film. While playing hide-and-seek the youngest girl discovers a giant armoire in a barren room covered by only a sheet. She hides in it. As she moves further back through the closet, she finds her self outside in the snowy woods far from home where she befriends one of Narnia's citizens. When she returns through the cabinet, it appears time stood still on the other side. Her brothers and sister don't believe her at first but eventually discover it for themselves. The sons and daughters of Adam and Eve - a term in the movie that made me realize why Churches across America promoted a fantasy world of magic and mythical creatures - are to rid Narnia of the evil queen and rule the talking animals and mythical creatures. Santa Clause makes a visit and gives the good children weapons to fight with. ?!? In the story the youngest brother sells his brother and sisters out but his guilt overcomes him. Trust me it?s a very weak conflict in the story. Each new scene of the movie brings nothing more to the story and does nothing for the climatic battle where children battle it out in mediocre battle scenes with larger and more experienced soldier beasts. We know who wins and apparently from age progression in the next scene, the children had lived out the next 10 years or so of their lives in Narnia until one day they come upon the Armoire they entered from. They enter it with mystery not remembering much about it only to come through on the other side as children again. And there stands the nutty professor...The End. This movie has been compared to Harry Potter and the Lord of the Rings. That is like comparing generic cola to Coke or Pepsi. While is does quench a thirst, the knockoff formula doesn't compare in taste. The visuals were good as it should be now. As I said earlier it?s a bland juvenile concept and must be better as a children's book as they have more of an imagination to fill in the story blanks of this movie.

Predictable - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Reviews

This movie was very predictable and in some ways very foolish. The movie resembled such movies as lord of the rings, harry potter, and even the lion king at some points. I belive the movie, like the book, is meant for children at the ages of 12 and under. But for people older than that, the movie can feel boring, predictable, and dragged out. The reason I am even giving this movie in the B's is because it is possible for people to enjoy the movie, however most adults and teenagers may find it once again boring and predictable and with noticable resemblences to previous movies.