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.