The Lion, The Witch and The Wardobe

[botrytis]

If anyone has read the C.S. Lewis' Narnia series then this movie is definitely a must see. I thought it was fantastic and followed the book amazingly well.

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Dave

[Bogframe]

:tresbon: Good to know, I have the whole series and just finished my umpteenth re-reading!

[jguzman21]

I took my 7yr old daughter to see this on Saturday. We had a great time and loved the movie. Followed the book very well and was easy for her to follow along. :thmbsp:

john

[foetusized]

I was thinking of taking my 4.5 year old to a matinee on our Christmas break. Would it be appropriate for someone so young?

[jguzman21]

I seen lots of kids there who were younger than my daughter (7). There are some scary looking creatures but they don't get very much screen time.

john

[THOR]

My son (15yrs old) and I saw it yesterday and we both hated it. It is definetely a movie for young children. They make it look like it might be a LOTR type adventure in the previews and it's more like Sesame St. Great kids movie I guess. As someone who never read the books I felt like it was the 2nd movie or something? Seems like I didn't know why things were happening. What happened to give the witch 100yrs of dominion? Aslan killed her in like 2 seconds flat, why did he wait 100yrs to do it? Just seemed like there was info missing to me and since I never read the books (tried as a teenager but didn't take to them) I just didn't know.

[Army]

Good to know since the book is one of things my wife wanted and is getting for Christmas. :thmbsp:

[SPL db]

Army... it took me about five minutes to even notice that you had posted words along with that avatar! :thmbsp:

Scott

[Army]

Army... it took me about five minutes to even notice that you had posted words along with that avatar! :thmbsp:

Scott

Noth'in better than the holidays at Hef's :D

[Negotiableterms]

I was thinking of taking my 4.5 year old to a matinee on our Christmas break. Would it be appropriate for someone so young?

I'm wondering exactly the same thing. Exactly!

[THOR]

Perfect for little kids.

[mg196]

...They make it look like it might be a LOTR type adventure in the previews and it's more like Sesame St...

I am really glad you pointed that out. When I first saw the trailer I was blown away! I definitely thought it was going to be another mega-trilogy in the vein of LOTR.

[2DualsNotEnough]

I thought the movie followed the book pretty closely,and as a movie for younger children its very good,IMO,but after the Ring trilogy,I was a little disapointed in it.The big battle at the end had its moments,but cant hold a candle to the battle of Helms Deep in the Two Towers(but in all fairness,are there many battles in ANY movie that can?)or any number of battles in the Ring series.
The film seemed a little chintzy to me,that it lacked the scope of a real epic.As far as taking small children,if I had seen those wolves when I was a little kid,I would have been scared to death,but then again,I had to hide in my mom's coat when I was 5 when I went on the Pirates of the Carribean at Disneyland :D
Jimmy

[archibael]

Decent movie, followed the book fairly well. The additional scenes to set the stage in the beginning of the movie were welcome.

I took my six year old, and she enjoyed it but told me not to buy the DVD because it was "too scary"; take that with a grain of salt, though, because she jumps at shadows.

There's lots of battling, but very, very little blood.

[botrytis]

LOL - it was not LOTR - Of course it is not!! It is not supposed to be. If they would have done it LOTR-style, then they would not have been faithful to the book. The book makes out the fight scenes like Crusader type of battles and that is that they did.

I was very happy that they didn't 'Hollywoodize' this film!!

I thought it was excellent and plan to buy when it comes out on DVD!!!

Read the book before you judge the movie!!!

Dave

[foetusized]

In the book, the battle takes up only a page or two. Definitely different source material than LOTR. Lewis & Tolkein were friends and colleagues though, and read each other's work.

No trilogy this; if it does well they should get all seven books made into films, I would guess. The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe was the first of the books written and ought to stand up as an introduction to Narnia, but there was a later book that takes place first and explains how Narnia came to be. Most omnibus volumes put The Magician's Nephew first as that's how C.S. Lewis preferred they be read once he finished the series, but TLTW&TW was published first and was the first book of the series read by many people, including myself when I was 10ish -- Foe

[THOR]

Boytris I have tried reading the book, when I saw the movie it reminded me of why the books always turned me off. Just not my kind of Fantasy, of course I have never liked Piers Anthony or those Greywall books either. Just different strokes for different folks.

Fortunately or unfortunately all swords and sorcery fantasy movies are going to be compared to LOTR, it's now the benchmark. Just as Star Wars is the guage to which sci-fi is judged. So LOTR comparisons are gonna happen.

Even not comparing it to LOTR I would still have found it too kiddie like for me. I am a sucker for movies with swords in them and I just have trouble with movies that have 12yr olds who have never even held a sword vanquishing axe weilding monsters and all the while without any blood flying ;) It was like medievel fantasy A-Team reruns.

I can see why fans of the book or children (walking, talking beavers anyone????) would enjoy it. But for the average sci fi/fantasy/action junkie it is lacking.

[foetusized]

Thor, don't be so hard on the beavers.