The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The picture goes exactly where the prose does, enticing all of us, kids and adults and atheists and believers alike, down below the brittle surface of our cold logic and into a richer world of imaginative wonder.

There's nothing too clean or too overbright about it. It's magic, but not the loud, shiny kind: It has the texture of worn velvet, or a painstakingly hand-knit sweater stored away for years in tissue paper.

Narnia, brightly lit and kid-friendly, has an appealingly old-fashioned feel to it. Adamson, codirector of "Shrek," wisely doesn't try to hip-ify the tale, leaving its curious blend of medieval pageantry, Christian fable and children's bedtime story intact.

Working for the first time in live action, under the constraints of a classic novel, he (Andrew Adamson) proves himself to be a capable visual storyteller but no Peter Jackson.

The Christian themes of forgiveness and sacrifice are tastefully conveyed, and the opening sequence of Nazi bombs falling on London, an event only alluded to in the book, helps dramatize Lewis's fascination with power.

It's a more dynamic adventure than Potter IV but lacks the majesty and richness of LOTR. Still, it's an enjoyable adaptation and good enough for us to welcome this new franchise.

The movie is a leaden, slow-moving beast.

As Crônicas de Narnia é um dos melhores filmes de sempre. Não existem palavras para este filme é simplesmente Fantástico

Um bom entretenimento. O obra ,como um todo, faz um bom trabalho no que se diz respeito a caracterização. Mesmo esperando mais do reino - artisticamente, ainda sim temos alguns cenários bonitos, uma trilha sonora excelente, uma cinematografia de gênero, junto ao figurino e as criaturas. O filme não se leva muito a serio, devido ao foco no publico mais infantil. Os personagens não são muito bem desenvolvidos. Edmund tinha uma grande potencial, podendo ser bem complexo. Assim como Pedro - que inclusive, fica mais sem graça ainda com a atuação de William Moseley. Não conheço a obra literária, mas acho difícil que esses personagem sejam tão fracos lá - numa medida de comparação. A vilão não é tem um impacto tão forte quanto deveria, mas Tilda Swinton dá alma a personagem. A voz de Aslam, Liam Neeson, acrescenta um peso absurdo. Sabedoria, um certo tipo de aptidão paciente, força; É, de fato, um ótimo trabalho de dublagem. James McAvoy faz bem o seu trabalho. Mesmo não tendo muito espaço, ele estava irreconhecível. Mesmo com alguns furos, uma vilão que só servia de antagonismo, e protagonistas relativamente fracos, a obra é divertida e passa o tempo. Senti falta de uma lição ao publico infantil, mas isso já é minha preferencia de proposito.

This movie is the film adaptation of one of the most famous books of C.S. Lewis, who wrote a series of novels called "Chronicles of Narnia". In this film, four brothers enter a magical world of talking animals and find that their coming was prophesied and should defeat a terrible witch who enslaved the country in a long winter. Directed by Andrew Adamson (who directed Shrek), has a script by Ann Peacock, Andrew Adamson, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. The cast was headed by Georgie Henley (Lucy), Skandar Keynes (Edmund), William Moseley (Peter), Anna Popplewell (Susan) and Tilda Swinton (The Witch), also relying on the voices of James McAvoy (Tumnus), Liam Neeson (Aslan) and Ray Winstone (Mr. Beaver). It won the Oscar for best characterization in 2006. I've always been of the opinion that if we want to tell a story correctly, we must start at the beginning. That's not what this movie did. In fact, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", despite the fame, is not the book where the chronicle begins. The story begins before this events, in the novel "The Magician's Nephew". But okay, we have seen prequels before (Star Wars, for example). What I never saw was a successful film where the events are not properly explained to the public. Throughout the film, we understanding that we know very little about Narnia (like the four protagonists), but it might be good to know more, understand how that witch has earned its position and what happened in that world before the arrival of the four humans. This kind of mysteries didn't work in this kind of films, unless they are exploited in a very skillful way in the script, which was far from the reduced ability of the team that wrote it. I also believe that Lewis's book could have been better explored and understood. Apparently, the staff and the director were afraid to exploit the book and end up filling the film with Christian allegories (yes, he's full of it and this film also, even if it wasn't the intention). Despite these flaws, the film works well enough to delight the audience because we all have a little child inside us, and all children have dreamed of something like this. The special effects and characterization are irreproachable, the costumes too, and the scenery is straight out of a true fairy tale. This movie is all that "The Lord of the Rings" is not: it's a fairy tale, not a war epic in a strange world. For all this, it's a film that deserves to be seen often, although those who have particular taste in C.S. Lewis books might not like so much.

This Narnia installment shows us that the Chronicles has really tried, but fails to impress all of us anyways. A better aim for the franchise is aimed for fans of the franchise.

All-flash and no substance perfectly describes this movie. It tries to be this grand movie that visually is appealing but the story has no substance and the acting leaves a lot to be desired, especially when it relies on a young cast that simply fails to deliver. The long run time of 2 and a half-hour certainly didn't help things and having a PG rating means all the action is dumbed down, offscreen or reduced to the characters just getting thumped and falling down. I always thought it was funny that they spent so much time and money on the costumes for that final fight scene only for it to take up maybe 10 minutes of the film and a majority of it being done in close-up shots that show next to nothing onscreen. This movie was a freaking mess and it shows, It really does.